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	<title>Philip Norton &#187; Search Engine Optimisation</title>
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		<title>RG Search Engine Optimisation Techniques</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Norton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When optimising sites I use a set of search engine techniques that I have dubbed RG (or Really Good) that allow me to keep at the forefront of the search engine optimisation industry. So I thought I would outline a &#8230; <a href="http://www.norton42.org.uk/434-rg-search-engine-optimisation-techniques.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When optimising sites I use a set of search engine techniques that I have dubbed RG (or Really Good) that allow me to keep at the forefront of the search engine optimisation industry. So I thought I would outline a few of the key techniques that I employ under RG.</p>
<h3>The Ethical Meta Tag</h3>
<p>My search engine strategies are always ethical, but rather than assume that the search engines understand this I employ the ethical meta tag. When I am optimising a site and I want to make absolutely clear that what I am doing is all above board I would use the following tag in the head section of our page.</p>
<p><code>&lt;meta name=&quot;ethical&quot; content=&quot;whitehat&quot; /&gt;</code></p>
<p>Other values of the content attribute include blackhat and greyhat, to cover all eventualities.</p>
<h3>Big Truck Title Tags</h3>
<p>Rather than having tiny little title tags that don&#8217;t describe very much I like to take the approach of creating not just big, but really, really big title tags. This is accomplished by a simple process of copying and pasting the entire contents of a page into the title tag, thus resulting in a keyword rich and relevant title tag.</p>
<h3>Roll Of The Dice Heading Tags</h3>
<p>As you know, there are 6 heading tags (h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6) so rather than do the usual thing of starting with a h1 and working down; I use a dice to decide which heading tag to use. Every time I come to write one in the code we just throw a dice and use whatever value appears. This keeps the content of each page fresh and interesting for search engine spiders.</p>
<h3>Schrodinger&#8217;s Cat Search Results</h3>
<p>Rather than actually tell anyone what their search results are I prefer to take a more pragmatic approach. If everyone involved assumes that a site will be either &quot;ranked&quot; or &quot;not ranked&quot; then by not checking we are creating a state of quantum flux. The site is both &quot;ranked&quot; and &quot;not ranked&quot; at one and the same time. If anyone actually checked the results the quantum waveform would collapse, so in order to prevent this I simply ban everyone from Google.</p>
<p>By using these RG techniques (and a few others) I can help you to optimise your site and help you achieve the rankings you want.</p>
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		<title>Fun At Ad:Tech London</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Norton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to the Ad:Tech show this week at the Olympia &#8211; National Hall in London.  I met some really cool people there, gave away a lot of bottles of water, but didn&#8217;t really learn as much as I would have &#8230; <a href="http://www.norton42.org.uk/229-fun-at-adtech-london.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I went to the Ad:Tech show this week at the Olympia &#8211; National Hall in London.  I met some really cool people there, gave away a lot of bottles of water, but didn&#8217;t really learn as much as I would have hoped.</p>
<p>The thing is that the seminars available would have cost about £800 to see, even if you were an exhibitor, and the ones that were free to view were just a glorified sales pitch.  This one guy talked about the future of the advertising industry, although I couldn&#8217;t have really figured that out if I hadn&#8217;t seen the title first.  His talk was essentially about him being a venture capitalist and how he made lots of money.  He was even samelessly plugged all of the latest things that he was investing in.  So I wasn&#8217;t really impressed with the talks.  Was it too much to expect some exchange of information?</p>
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