If you’re not familiar with the ‘a4uexpo Bavarian Beer and Sausage on stand 50’ SEO competition, then let me enlighten you! Occassionally in the SEO community someone announces a competition with a prize, in this case tickets to a conference in London with a hotel stay lumped in. This is a great way to build [...]
This sounds fairly straight forward, but not only do most business owners make the mistake of pulling out the wrong ranking, but so do many beginner SEO’s, web developers and designers. Please read all of this article, the good stuff is towards the end! Avoiding Personalisation It’s a bit more complicated than it may seem. [...]
Link building is probably the hardest part of promoting your website, what people don’t realise is that there isn’t an easy, quick way to get good links. Link building is hard, it’s very hard (unless you buy links, in which case your setting yourself up for a whole World of pain if you get caught [...]
Not ranking high in Google? Chances are its duplicate content… Contrary to what most people think, I think the most common cause of websites not ranking is duplicate content. Nearly every single website I ever have to do SEO for has some kind of duplicate content problem. It is so common that nearly all SEO’s [...]
This is probably one of the toughest things I come up against. There are a few examples I can talk about. Firstly “physiotherapy in Ripon” which I tried to help AVA Physiotherapy with around a year ago – they are ranking well now, but there still isn’t any demand there. Secondly my brother in law, [...]
Just got this via email, I don’t know if anyone else has, but I honestly believe people might switch to Yahoo for this reason. 2 Yahoo Searches = 1 point 2 points = 1 pence 4 Yahoo searches = 1 pence 400 Yahoo searches = £1 Not great, but not bad either, especially if you’re [...]
I did a post on personalised search on David Naylor’s blog some time ago, but sadly it didn’t seem to get much of a reception (I think thats because when the title is a bit confusing “search david naylor online”). I still think it is something many SEO’s are probably neglecting, so I thought it [...]
This might seem like a bit of a weird title for me, but stay with me and I’ll explain, needless to say this isn’t about ERP systems. I’ve been playing around with the Google Search Based Keyword Tool when I stumbled across the inbuilt filter feature. IT’S AMAZING!!! Ok, I’ve calmed down now, so what [...]
Perhaps you’re already an established business, in which case you probably don’t need to assess whether there is a market for what you selling, there most likely is. If you’re just starting out, it may be worthwhile doing some quick keyword research to see how much demand there is for what you are selling.
Ok, so this is just something I noticed, it isn’t based on any tests or studies, it is just from observing the SERPs and link profiles a lot, that and what I believe is common sense. Ok so lets look at things from my perspective, say I would like to get my good friend and [...]