To make your SEO as successful as possible in foreign markets, you should consider properly localising your websites for the regions you are targeting. Here are a few tips to help you get started with multilingual SEO. Localise your content The first step in multilingual SEO is to ensure your content is properly localised. There are two steps to achieving this. The first is to ensure that your English-language content is well-written and relevant to your target market. You should also ensure your content is culturally appropriate for the regions you will be publishing in. Remember that content that...

One factor in SEO which many people are unaware of is the effect of Class C IP Addresses. Many Webmasters haven’t heard of the term Class C and thus naturally overlook this. In this article, I’m going to explain the basics of what a Class C IP is, why it’s an important factor in SEO – both on-page and off-page. Class C IP In layman terms, an IP address consists of 4 parts: We call the first 3 parts the Class C of an IP. So for example: 123.456.789.111 and 123.456.789.222 are in the same Class C 123.456.123.111 and 123.456.789.222 are in two different Class C’s Two websites that are...

Many of you would like to know the number of RSS subscribers certain websites have for various reasons such as: Popularity Competition What’s the average for your industry Curiosity Fun! Many sites hide their Feedburner counter (Chicklet) until they reach a high number of subscribers. The technique I’m going to show you will only work for sites that have enabled FeedCount in Feedburner:goog So, how do you find the magic number? Simple. Copy and Paste the URL below into your browser replacing “IDName” with the Feed name: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/IDName For example, The Feed for Web...

Recently, I was doing a site command on Google for “Bing.com” using Firefox and came across a certain link which didn’t seem to do anything until I realised after a few day’s, the background image on Bing hasn’t been showing! Checking in Chrome, it was fine: So? There must be a cookie set on my browser. Using Firefox’s Web Developer Toolbar: Fixed the Issue! So the URL? Here you go - http://www.bing.com/?rb=0 (I’m sure this will be useful if you want to have a joke or even divert people away from Bing! A simple link in an email will do the trick!) This URL passes a...