The pace of innovation over the past decade or so has been amazing. Do you recall 1999? Sure you do, when Google didn’t rule the world and Lycos or Altavista was the search engine of choice? Think of the mobile phone you had, did you even have one? If you did no doubt it was [...]
Continue Reading →Search Engine Optimisation is a fickle business, I hear moans all the time from “seo experts” and website owners that Google did this and Bing did that and subsequently they have no visitors … oh this is the hardest year ever to be an SEO … etc. Whilst not denying this year and the previous [...]
Continue Reading →Many of my recent discussions have been about SEO Local Search. This in turn lead to my recent post about best practices when setting up Google Places for your business. But one of the more contentious and rapidly more talked about factors in local search is our lovely friends at the Yellow Pages and Thomson Local. Dont forget [...]
Continue Reading →This post is the product of a recent spate of enquiries I received, in essence each wanting to know How to optimise Google Places. However, my experience is that Google Places is pretty hard to optimise, this is because Google wants all businesses to supply the same data (great) and it will then bring your result [...]
Continue Reading →Putting it simply, sitemaps allow web-masters and website owners to help direct Google (and other search engines) to index their web content optimally. In the simplest form a Sitemap is an XML file listing a set of url’s of a given domain, usually with some extra meta data about each url. The meta data that usually surrounds [...]
Continue Reading →Welcome to 2011 firstly, a new year and a new will to improve things across your websites (i do hope) If not maybe you should think about it… wait you already are you’re reading a post about improving your site … maybe you should point a few people to this blog if you think they [...]
Continue Reading →One question I’ve been asked and asked my self time and imte again is just what effect will Google Instant have on the search market, will people even like it. However, It isn’t really a question of liking, you can turn it off but for “normal people” it’s not so clear how. This means stick [...]
Continue Reading →On July 13, 2010 ComScore released it’s monthly Search Engine Statistics – indicating the current proportion of the search world various search engines occupy. Obviously it’s taken for granted Google top the list but Bing are busily moving up!
Continue Reading →Now there are many many SEO and general Internet Marketing myths that are floating around, and have been since the dawn of time. (Ok, dawn of the internet). Today I want to take a look at 15 of the most annoying myths, these are all a complete pile of poop. Generally you will be told [...]
Continue Reading →Over the past few month’s I’ve come across many a site with this issue, and the website owner always always says the same thing … (and its right to an extent) … we are the brand leader, bringing something new to the market and want to be seen for x, y and z … and [...]
Continue Reading →Now lets face it Yahoo isn’t that big of a deal really…we all know shares plummeted and the company didn’t make much money.
We take a look at the reasons behind this purchase and take a look at the history of the deal.
Continue Reading →Back to the series of how to Get to number one on Google … and I know somethning of a myth I want to share with you… Using PPC can and will effect your search rankings …
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