Analytics on the riseI’d say the number one question I get asked when people talk to me about website design is “How do you get top of Google” or words to those effect. The answer, in part at least, is Search Engine Optimisation.

And what is the number one characteristic of SEO? Content! I’m sure iv’e mentioned it in previous blog articles, but key word rich, media rich, unique content is probably the most important element to a high ranking website.

So, how to keep things running smoothly?

SEO isn’t a one time thing; It takes constant tweaking, improvement and analysis to make the most! The last couple of days iv’e been revamping johnalexanderrowley.com with a whirlwind of new information. The result? Google robots scanning and searching this valuable new data to place me in the ranking system. It’s a bit of an experiment, if nothing else, replacing content in some cases, but replacing entire pages in others.

However, i’m already seeing some good improvement in Analytics and numbers; There has been a steady increase in unique and returning visitors over the last six months, and it’s climbing more rapidly than ever right now. That’s not to say it won’t peek and return to previous numbers, but for the mean time, at least, i’m enjoying soaring numbers.

Moral of the story? Do some SEO Spring Cleaning and see if you can improve your site visits too!?

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CAPTCHA on blogs

On February 1, 2010 in Website Design.
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Opened wp-admin page this morning to find 65 comments. Thought for a moment that I may have had a huge responce to a post but it turns out that over 80% of them were spam! Time for a bit of spam prevention.

I used a simple CAPTCHA wordpress plugin which doesn’t require real people to input any characters and garuntees 100% success. I’m not holding my breath. If the plugin doesn’t work I’ll have to resport to user-input methods to decide between bots and the living, which I don’t perticularly like doing. However, desperate times and all that.

CAPTCHA software has always got my back up; Just seem’s like there could be better ways to determine between the two sources. However I’m starting to think that WordPress should include CAPTCHA as default to it’s posts… something I didn’t think i’d ever admit!

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