SEO Blog & Search Engine Optimisation Tools

Ragepank is the SEO blog of Harvey Kane, a New Zealand PHP web developer and SEO consultant.
Search engine optimisation articles and tools are published in the blog regularly, covering the technical sides of on-page SEO (which most sites do really bad), link building tricks, what Google is up to, and the human element of this crazy business.

Is your website SEO working, or just cheesy?

Even big companies have plenty room to improve their on-page SEO. Of the many websites I visit each day, there aren't many that I couldn't suggest a couple of changes that would improve rankings one way or another.
Some websites just need small changes to see big results. Others need to rethink what value they have to add to the world, and the marketing has to start here.

Site contents

This blog can be thought of as a Search engine optimization (SEO) resource for intermediate level webmasters. Beginners might be scared off by PHPSESSID and duplicate content, but it's all important stuff if you want to compete with the big fellas.
  • SEO Articles / Blog - A couple of entries a week covering whatever is happening at the time. I like to think my SEO articles are interesting and relevant to website owners wanting to add a measure of quality to their sites
  • SEO Tools - The spam-o-meter is still a popular SEO tool for ranking the desireability of a link exchange partner. Also check out the redirect tool if you think your site is totally free from duplicate content problems (most aren't)
  • SEO Consulting / SEO services - Yes, I do offer paid SEO consulting, as well as the monkey work it usually entails

Alternative domains not in Google

A customer has just brought to my attention a problem that hadn't occured to me. It's to do with all those other domain names you own and are 301ing to the main site.

Problem:

You have www.domainname.com and it's appearing in Google searches for "www.domainname.com" like it should.

You have www.domain-name.com 301ing to www.domainname.com and it's not showing in Google searches for "www.domain-name.com" (as you would expect). Neither site is.

Domain searches

As my customer pointed out, people often find a site by typing a domain into Google. And he's right - I guess it's easier for some people to do it that way, or they don't know that the address bar is how normal people browse sites. The keyword stats on sites I manage suggest that a great many people find a site by Googing for the domain name. So if you aren't being found for your own domain name, then that's a problem. Especially if you are advertising that domain name in offline mediums.

Misspellings

The dashed version of the domain was registered mainly to catch traffic who mistakingly added the dash into the domain.

But searching for www.domain-name.com in Google brings up an empty result set - the domain is not indexed and never will be.

Solution

I have added the dashed version of the domain into the footer text of the site, so that the regular domain name will get cached with that text on it, and I expect this to solve the problem.

It will be interesting to see how many visitors come via Google searching for "www.domain-name.com".
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Content at a Glance

  • Spam-o-Meter - A tool for checking the quality of potential link partners.
  • Disable PHPSESSID - Remove the evilness of PHPSESSID from your site for good.
  • Optimise your Images - Don't forget to make sure your images are search engine friendly. Here's how.
  • Sort your Navigation - Users and search engines like good navigation. Have you missed anything important?
  • Check out the features on Jojo CMS

The NZ SEO Blog

A collection of NZ SEO blog articles written by New Zealand Web Developer Harvey Kane, as well as a (small) selection of non NZ SEO Articles from other authors. As an established NZ SEO, we can also offer SEO NZ services for NZ websites.

Services

  • Auckland SEO services
  • Content Management System (CMS) websites
  • New Zealand search engine optimization
  • NZ SEO consulting
  • Web development & Web design



Sites under development
These are some of the search engine optimisation and web development projects I have on at the moment...