There’s a little coding language any serious web designer can’t live without… CSS.

Thats right Cascading Style Sheets or CSS have altered the world of web design and SEO. Before CSS became mainstream, many sites were built using tables and yes, this is exactly what it sounds like. Designers would dump the content of your site in columns and rows, which would form the basis of your site’s layout. Whats wrong with this? Well there were many problems, but the biggest had to be where it left your site in Google. (more…)

Today is expected to be the busiest day of online shopping this year, it is estimated that over £320 million will be spent in online shops. As the economy grinds to a stop, banks are failing and we are apparently facing the worst recession since the 30’s, it appears that people are still spending… just online instead of in traditional shops.

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You may have noticed the ‘u comment, I follow” badge in the sidebar, that’s right SJL have joined the do follow movement inspired by Randa Clay and have removed the ‘no follow’ attribute from the SJL blog.

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Today SJL Web Design reached page three for the incredibly competitive phrase ‘Web Design’ after only being established for 3 months, this is a momentous achievement.

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Directory submissions can be a great way to build high quality links for your website and help give it a boost in the search engines. So with so many directory submission sites and software all over the web offering for example, 10, 000 + directory submissions for $10 you would be mad to miss out? However this is not always the case. (more…)

Whilst very entertaining, this video sums up a lot of points that any SEO professional takes extremely seriously.

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