Category Archives: Code

Meta Tags for E-tail Sites

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on March 7, 2008. Filed under Code, SEO Best Practices. No comments.

I recently conducted a competitive analysis for one of my etail clients and to my astomishment, I found that out of the 13 competitors I tracked, none utilised the meta description tag on their site.  This prompted me to write a post on this discussing meta tags and best practices for using them on your [...]

Optimising Images on Your Site

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on January 16, 2008. Filed under Code, SEO. No comments.
Juicy Water Mellon

A very juicy water mellon With the concept of “universal search“ gaining ground, it is becoming more and more crucial to optimise all content on your site for search including videos, pdf, podcasts and images. This blog post will focus on optimising images on your site.  As an example, if you wanted to optimise an image on your site for the [...]

Changing Charatcteristics of a File – Static to Dynamic

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on October 22, 2007. Filed under Code, SEO Tips & Tricks. No comments.

Did you know that you are able to change the characteristics of a static file such as a .html or .txt file to allow it to accept dynamic code such as php or asp?  Well you can, here’s how… Lets say you’re looking to create a dynamic .csv  or .txt for a shopping feed for one of the [...]

This Site May Harm Your Computer

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on September 3, 2007. Filed under Code, Gadgets & Tools. No comments.
this site may harm your computer - landing page

“This site may harm your computer”, this is what Google placed underneath all my listings towards the end of last week, why?… Well basically because a hacker managed to penetrate my server and place invisible code designed to place “trojan horses” onto my users’ computers. If you’re unlucky enough to be tagged with ”This Site May Harm Your Computer” [...]

Managing your Robots.txt File

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on July 18, 2007. Filed under Code, SEO. 1 Comment.
robots.txt image

A robots.txt file is a text file that manages the search engines that listen to its instructions.  Major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN all listen to the robots.txt file and obey the instruction placed in it. What kind of instructions can you place in a robots.txt file?  Well for one you can [...]