filed in SEO on Apr.08, 2011
We have never promised anyone that we would get their website to the very top of Google. Â We promise to use the very best techniques that have proven to deliver fantastic results in the past, but we can’t force Google to do anything. Â If they don’t want to put your site at number 1 then [...]
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filed in SEO on Oct.28, 2009
I’m now an contributor over at the excellent Ask the Expert section on the Start-up Community website. http://www.startupcommunity.co.uk/speakerscorner/speaker.asp?id=74023 So if you have any website or internet marketing questions, head on over there and ask away. Â There are lots of other resources for small business owners or start-ups too.
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filed in Google, SEO on Oct.07, 2009
In the past, I’ve often told people not to go crazy and check their website rankings every day because they’ll end up going crazy. If you see your website drop down a couple of places then it’s natural to go and change something to try and rectify it but you might actually cause a worse [...]
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filed in SEO, Website Design on Sep.23, 2009
One of the things we’ve seen time and again is when someone has an old website that hasn’t been updated for months or even years. Â They get a new website with wonderful SEO, they put it live fully expecting it to hit page 1 and it ends up lower down than it was originally! Cue [...]
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filed in Blogging, SEO on Jun.30, 2009
Recently, Matt Cutts (head of webspam at Google) announced that they have changed the way that nofollow links are used. Â In fact, the way that Google have treated these links changed nearly a year ago but they only got around to announcing it now. For most people, this doesn’t matter at all but for those [...]
filed in SEO, Social Networking on Jun.22, 2009
There are thousands of self-proclaimed experts on Twitter but there are very few actual experts that are worth following for their SEO advice. However, having been very active on Twitter for over a year now, I’ve built up a list of people who use Twitter to hand out solid SEO advice (amongth other things) and [...]
filed in Google, SEO on Jun.11, 2009
The world of search engine optimisation has become so competitive (and lucrative) that for many years now, there have been many dodgy techniques employed to help push websites further up the rankings. Generally, these techniques are far beyond Google’s terms of service and are commonly referred to as ‘Black Hat SEO’. Instead of writing good [...]
filed in Blogging, SEO on Jun.09, 2009
One old SEO technique that I still see is that of blog commenting. Â Years ago, it was an easy way to generate links to your website. Â All you had to do was leave a comment on a blog and either add your website to the comment or populate the URL field. Â Either way, you’d [...]
filed in Google, SEO on May.19, 2009
I’m a bit of a geek and I like to look at the search results for a variety of keywords and see who is ranking where. I’m always interested to see why they’re ranking where they are so I often have a poke about to see what’s working for them and what isn’t. Today, I [...]
filed in Google, Marketing, SEO on Apr.17, 2009
I’ve been meaning to write about the results from this poll for a long time – I’ve finally got around to doing it today. I’ve been thinking a lot about these results and what surprised me the most is that people are willing to trust search results (which can quite easily be gamed/manipulated) over something [...]