JMCDesigner

Aye, .gov.uk are powerful indeed, which is why it's nigh impossible to get links on those kind of sites lol. I know what you mean about the reciprocal link thing though. Just need to frame it with my own site.

So I've just checked out a competitors backlinks and they include links to college type websites, and they're also the cms builders for some local council website (.gov.uk). hmm... more tricky than I thought to get that gig... they to seem to have footer links to sites they've built so maybe that's where I'm going wrong?

Of course I know of one dofollow backlink that is incredibly effective GO on then I'll bite - what's that then?

Thanks for all your input folks. I certainly agree with the article writing bit, but I think that would be easier for some businesses over others. Realistically I don't think smaller businesses would have the time or inclination to write regular articles for their seo. There'd only be so many articles you could write about 'window cleaning' for example.

Hi Neil, Yeah I agree completely with the not putting my link on clients websites - I don't do that any more. I did actually check out the Web Design Association but even their directory links are nofollow. Creating good, unique content or website would work well for people in creative type of industries like myself but I'm not sure how that would be practical for a business in a fairly mundane sector which needed to have backlinks for a particular topic. I think the whole process of getting backlinks is a lot more difficult now, and I've only been able to concentrate on on-site seo really. You make a fair point about writing articles though, which I've been trying to do with my blog and it's just a case of getting those articles noticed!

I just wanted to ask and see how you guys get back links for yourselves as web designers, other than posting a link in the footer of a website you've built. I notice a lot of forums are nofollow now (even comments in wordpress blogs), so I'm left scratching my head about it *looks sadly at signature* . Your thoughts and input on this would be greatly appreciated - thank you in advance!

Found this: http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-blog/home-page-title-is-wrong-in-google-search-results/ It might be to do with it being on DMOZ, so added the meta tags mentioned...will wait n see...

Site was uploaded aaaages ago (couple of months maybe?)...I have never used 'HSES Limited' as a title tag. The search engine caches are recent, so should be right...

Shortened the meta titles....see if that's anything to do with it.

I'm a bit confused by the following when I search for hses.co.uk (search term 'hses'): google.co.uk: link title = 'HSES Limited' yahoo.co.uk: link title = 'The Number One Bespoke Health, Safety and Environmental...' bing.com = link title = 'HSES Limited' yahoos title is correct, and the site has been up for ages. When I look at the cache for bing and google the titles are correct. So why is the link title wrong? 'HSES Limited' isn't even referenced ANYWHERE on the site??? Can anyone enlighten me as to what's happening here?

Fair enough....solved it myself...I put a header location redirect and changed text field code <input type="text" name="businessname" id="businessname" <?php if (!in_array('businessname', $missing)){stickyfield($SET_BNAME);} ?>/>

That's right I do want a specific line of the settings file each time. The problem is as follows: 1. My form input field reads specific line from text file (as an example) and makes field value 'plumbing inc' 2. I change the input field to 'electrician inc' and press submit 3. The specific line on the text file is updated, but the form field still says 'plumbing inc'

I have a form which loads its values from a text file. When I update a field and press submit, the text file is updated with the new value but the sticky field still shows the prior value. Can anyone enlighten me as to what I've done wrong? It's far too late in the evening and my brain has become mush... form fields look like this: <input type="text" name="businessname" id="businessname" <?php stickyfield($SET_BNAME); ?>/> external config file (php include) looks like this: function stickyfield($fieldname){ if(isset($fieldname)){echo ' value="'.trim($fieldname).'"'; }; }; I have ommited the other data but $SET_BNAME refers to the array element im extracting from the text file as follows: $settingsfile = file(SETTINGS); for ($i = 0; $i < count($settingsfile); $i++) { // separate each element and store in a temporary array $tmp = explode(': ', $settingsfile[$i]); // assign each element of the temporary array to a named array key $settingsfile[$i] = array('setting' => $tmp[0], 'value' => $tmp[1]); } $SET_BNAME = trim($settingsfile[0]['value']); (SETTINGS is defined to text file location)

pure CSS3: http://www.subcide.com/articles/pure-css-twitter-fail-whale/

http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/