Since my last post about the Google Penguin update which was implemented on 24th April I’ve been doing a fair bit of research into what may cause a page or website to be affected by it. Whilst it’s far to early to have any conclusive answer, there does seem to be some agreement about what […….]
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2 Major Google Updates in April 2012 The latest phase of Google updates have sent shock waves through the SEO community, with many sites and probably more importantly, their clients sites losing massive volumes of traffic due to decreases in ranks, I’ve already heard stories about in house SEO’s losing jobs over it and agencies […….]
I was planning on writing an article about how to increase traffic to a blog today, however I remembered a post that Rand from SEOmoz did earlier in the year, so went to find it. I did and having read it through realised there was actually very little to add to what he had already […….]
People have been talking recently about the diminishing importance of links in SEO, but I for one have seen no proof of this. Granted, other metrics are undoubtedly used such as title tags, content and more recently social metrics, however, as far as SEO is concerned, backlinks still play an important role and I can’t […….]
The old hyphen – or underscore _ question again An existing client is planning a site redesign for next spring and has been asking me quite a lot of questions about the best way to change the site, she asked the old question about if hyphens or underscores are better word separators in the page […….]
Chrome overtakes Firefox for the first time In just 2 years Googles new web browser Chrome has made a significant impact on the average internet users browser of choice. Back in November of 2009 Google Chrome was just launching and had around the same market share as Safari and Opera, each accounting for around 3%, […….]
How to Write SEO Friendly WordPress Posts First of all, remember that you can do more harm than good if you copy and paste chunks of content into your blog, as with the rest of the website all content must be unique! If you can, try to add something at least once a week, if […….]
It never fails to amaze me, the number of people I speak to about working on their website, be it in a design or SEO capacity and somehow the original designer has tied them in. The most common scenario is when a web developer registers the domain name and hosts the site for the client, […….]
Be sure you get the SEO basics right There are a number of fundamental basics of SEO which apply to virtually every website on the internet, they are not always adhered to, however they do exist and have remained constant for many years. Search engines and Google in particular are often making changes to the […….]
SEO and Tracking Enquiries I regularly have conversations with both potential clients and existing ones about tracking the effectiveness of an SEO campaign. Whilst ranks for the most effective buying keywords and overall traffic are often a good indication of the success of a campaign, this isn’t always the case, only tracking all your enquiries […….]