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Can you help ebay pages rank?

By Ashley • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: SEO

Interesting theory, seeing as ebay product pages generally rank reasonably well in Google, but can you get your products ranking and boost the ebay listings up the serps?
Lets have a little play with a couple of my clients listings to see if there are any potential benefits:

Grabber Arm
Love Heart Shaped Flying Lanterns
Space Saving Hangers
Hetty Desktop [...]



Htaccess for addon domains

By Ashley • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: SEO

For those of you that make use of add-on domains on your hosting accoumt, its important to setup an .htaccess file to redirect any visitors or bots who find their way to one of the subdomains., to aviod duplicate content issues.
There are three (well six actually!) ways of accessing an add-on domain:
Root domain name (ie. [...]



Avoiding Canonicalisation of your URL

By Ashley • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: SEO

Many hundreds and thousands of websites are potentially damaging their ranking abilities by failing to avoid canonicalisation of their websites url.
Canonicalisation occurs when a website is able to be accessed via both www.website.com and website.com, in severe cases this can cause the search engines to effectively index 2 identical copies of your site, and then [...]



301 Redirects - moving a web page

By Ashley • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: SEO

If you are moving content between page or domains on a permanent basis to maintain a seamless transition between your pages (hopefully) established rankings, there really is only one way of redirecting your existing urls.
Using a 301 redirect.
There are a number of ways of implementing a 301 redirect, my preferred method would be a command [...]



Get your site indexed within 24 hours

By Ashley • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: SEO

Want to get your site indexed and listed within google within 24 hours?
Ever heard of Gumtree.com? Submitting adverts for your site to Gumtree is an excellent way of getting your site indexed in Google and can even bring you some visitors too!
Simply navigate to Gumtree.com, i often choose my local area but any Gumtree area [...]



Free Ranking Checker Tool

By Ashley • Mar 31st, 2008 • Category: SEO

I noticed that Aaron Wall from Seobook.com has released a fantastic free ranking checker tool, and unlike some tools on the market its free and even better for us UK users, unlike many similar tools (with a quick fiddle with the settings) its compatible with google.co.uk.