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Googlebot definition

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 googlebot

When a user types a keyword or phrase to search for in a search engine, it is a common misconception that the search engine then trawls through all the live websites in the world, finds the best match and displays the results. If this were true, every search would take weeks to perform! Search engines [...]


Magento ecommerce – Adding products to the homepage

Monday, September 28th, 2009 Magento ecommerce logo

Since the latest version of Magento (version 1.3.2.4) was released back in September, Magento is proving to be a very popular and very comprehensive ecommerce platform. There is both a free and an Enterprise version available, and already the online communities are rapidly growing in size as more and more developers try the system out, [...]


Google car spotted in Knutsford, Cheshire

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 Google car and mounted camera

As you may or may not know, SEO Creative is primarily based in Knutsford even through we have developers and designers throughout Manchester and Cheshire. Today as I was driving back from a meeting in the City Centre I spotted the Google car near the Bentley Garage on Mobberly road, and this is the first time [...]


New super car designs revealed

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 and Ferrari 458 Italia 2009 models

Although both cars cost more than my house, I can’t help but be mesmorised by the 2 latest super car models by Lamborghini (in the image above in black) and Ferrari (in the image above in yellow). The Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Coupe is priced at around £198,000, is four wheel drive, has a 8,000 rpm 5.2 litre [...]


Friendly URL definition

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

A friendly URL is a web address that is readable to both a human user of the website and a search engine spider. With many large or dynamic websites the URLs are generally formatted in a way that isn’t beneficial to the user or a search engine from an SEO perspective. For example, this is the [...]


Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) infographics

Friday, September 18th, 2009 seo infographic - long tail keyword equation

For anybody new to SEO, infographics can be a great way of helping your understanding. Many people find the concepts so much easier to understand when they can see a diagram or picture, and the infographic above is a great example. It shows an equation for getting ranked for long tail keywords including on page optimisation (seo [...]


Morning breath inc website

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 Screenshot of the morning breath website portfolio

If I’m completely honest I had never actually heard of Morning Breath until very recently, although I found that I was very familiar with their work. They are a creative design studio based in New York that originally started out in San Francisco collaborating in Skateboard designs, and eventually forming Morning Breath in 2002. They have a [...]


Ethical SEO definition

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Ethical SEO refers to the process of optimising a website within the guidelines of the search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo, etc). If techniques are used that are not within these guidelines, or are designed primarily to deceive the search engines are seen as unethical techniques. To take this a step further, these techniques have been classifed with different [...]


Excellent collection of typography posters

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 typography poster design

At SEO Creative, our graphic designers are always stressing the importance of good typography in design. So when we found a blog post from the Webdesigner Depot on “30 typography posters you’ve probably never seen before” we just had to share it! The posters are great examples of what can be done with typography, and there are [...]


Express Service

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

At SEO Creative we use freelance designers and developers to keep costs down, another service we offer is quick turn around. This is our Express Service.