Choosing an SEO Company
There are so many SEO companies out there, each with their strengths and weaknesses, some with very experienced staff who know exactly what it takes to achieve high rankings, and others with no clue...
View ArticleGoogle’s Universal Search Extends to Blogs
Back in June I posted about SEO for Universal Search and how the future of search results will, in some form or another include images, videos, maps, news, books and now blog posts! Yes, it is...
View ArticleSEO KPIs – Measuring Success of SEO Activity
How do you measure the success of your SEO activity? What KPIs do you look at? Do you know what KPIs are? Key performance Indicators and here are a few I use: SEO KPI 1: Brand vs Non-Brand Traffic...
View ArticleDead SEO Strategies
A good article was published by Brett Borders on his Copy Brighter blog listing 7 SEO techniques that no longer work. here’s the summary with links to related posts on this blog: Reciprocal links....
View ArticleUsing Link Title Tag for SEO
Here’s a good optimisation tip, did you know that you can add optimised title tags to your site’s internal links? Here is what it looks like: <a title=”Computer Monitors ” href=”your-link”...
View ArticleYahoo’s Paid Inclusion Programme (Search Submit)
Yahoo offers a programme that allows your site to show up in it’s natural results pages on a per click basis. The programme is called Yahoo Search Submit aka Paid Inclusion. In a nutshell, the...
View ArticleTop SEO Sites on the Net
Before I get started, let me first define what I deem good SEO sites / blogs. The essential factor of determining a good seo site from an average one is the continuous provision of regualrly updated,...
View ArticleQDF: Query Desreves Freshness
QDF is a term used to describe the thought process behind Google’s results for certain search queries’ ”deserving” of fresh and regularly updated content. QDF is Google’s way of ensuring that its users...
View ArticleTop 10 SEO Consultants To Follow on Twitter
SEO is a fast changing industry and keeping up with the latest SEO news and techniques is paramount to a successfull SEO career. Thankfully, the internet has provided the means to stay on top of the...
View ArticleGoogle’s July 09 Algo Change – Big Daddy 2?
On July 1st 2009 Google’s new algorithm kicked in much to the confusion of webmasters around the world. Some even compared it to the now infamous Big Daddy Algo change back in 2006. In this post...
View ArticleGoogle Caffeine – The SEO Implications
Google recently announced it’s top secret project codenamed “Caffeine”. This project seems to have been a few years in the making and meant to capitalise on the growing interest in “real time search”...
View ArticleIs Social Media Optimisation (SMO) the end of SEO?
For about the last five years, there has been so much hype about Search Engine Optimisation that the reality has been obscured. The reality is that standard Web searches may be useful, but they are...
View ArticleCourting Clients Online
Proper search engine optimisation (SEO) is all about meeting your target audience online. It’s one of the things a website owner does to put their best foot forward and arrange introductions to people...
View ArticleAnnotate Google Analytics For SEO Insights [Guide]
With all the changes Google’s algorithm goes through each year, it’s worth keeping track of how this affects your website’s traffic. Use this 4-step guide to annotate your Analytics account with...
View ArticleAdapt Your SEO For Trends: Real-Time & Local Search
The majority of SEOs focus on optimising for desktop/laptop search results. The good ones (#97 in particular) are aware of the latest search trends and incorporate optimisation techniques that always...
View ArticlePenguin’s Exact Match Anchor Text Massacre [TIPS]
On April 24, 2012, Google unleashed yet another algorithm update. This one primarily focused on web spam and unnatural link schemes. Old school backlinking strategies were rendered obsolete, in favour...
View ArticleSEO Is Dead, Long Live SEO
If you’ve been reading the recent stories lamenting that Google has brought about the death of SEO with its latest algorithm modifications, you may be among the many fearing SEO has no future as a...
View ArticleNew Link Disavow Tool: Is It Google’s Trojan Horse?
It has been said that one of the golden rules to SEO success is a healthy level of paranoia. The financial stability of thousands of webmasters, bloggers and affiliate marketers are almost entirely...
View ArticleNegative SEO: 3 Tips to Fight Back
Negative SEO is a big buzzword online right now. Following the release of the Google disavow links tool, a possible admission that links from so-called “bad neighborhoods” can have a detrimental impact...
View ArticleSEO in 2013: Your Survival Guide
As 2012 comes to its conclusion, many people are left asking themselves a gloomy question. Is the end near? While the majority do not take Mayan prophecy literally, the underlying question is one that...
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