Author Archives: James Burton

Chained 301 redirects should be avoided for SEO, but Google will follow 2 or 3 stacked redirects

Posted on November 6, 2011 by James Burton

When a page moves it is recommended to use a 301 redirect from the old to new page to tell search engines to index the new result. This will also tell search engines to remove the old page from their … Continue reading →

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URL Localisation for International SEO

Posted on June 12, 2011 by James Burton

From my research international SEO is still struggling with the question of how to localise the URL after the domain name. This post reviews this subject in some detail, but if you would like the executive summary here are my … Continue reading →

Posted in Localisation, SEO, URL-design | 2 Comments

Mobile RSS: Read blog posts on your iPhone

Posted on October 24, 2010 by James Burton

The problem with subscribing to a blog RSS feed is that you then need to have some downtime to connect and absorb. Other people may have a system worked out, but I’ve never found a way to make accessing and … Continue reading →

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Embrace The Valley For History Is What We Make It

Posted on September 6, 2010 by James Burton

I’ll keep this blog post short. My site recently got hit by malware which broke everything, so I’ll be writing in due course about how to protect your WordPress site against computer hacking so this doesn’t happen to you. Prior … Continue reading →

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Fight AIDS in Africa with (NIKE)RED laces [WORK]

Posted on January 15, 2010 by James Burton

To coincide with World Aids Day on December 1st 2009 AKQA were asked to promote the start of (NIKE)RED partnership global launch of the (NIKE)RED shoes laces. As Account/ Project Manager I led the Creative and Development Teams to deliver … Continue reading →

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