One of the points I suggested in my post on SEO theories which I can’t prove was that “Internal links are more important than external links” In this post I’m going to show you how to get much more value out of your internal linking using a simple technique, but first let me put some [...]
Run for your lives it’s another post about the panda update! I don’t usually blog about SEO news and algorithm shifts for a couple of reasons- firstly it’s boring and other sites will always be better for that sort of thing. Secondly because of the approach I take to SEO I rarely get effected by [...]
Another quick post today… I really hate Q & A sites, they’re 95% morons asking questions and other morons wasting their time answering them (if you’ve got that much time on your hands get a blog and make some money people!). However I can’t deny they have something of a magic formula when it comes [...]
There are parts of internet marketing which take a lot of time. I’m a big advocate of doing things properly, especially when it comes to link building. However sometimes the quickest things actually have the biggest impact. So clear a couple of hours in your day and run through my list of the best SEO [...]
One of my favourite ways to build up a link building prospect list is to find a few sites which I think I can get a link from, either with a simple link request, a guest post, a payment or something more creative, then to dig around for similar sites which might also make good [...]
There was a talk on this subject at the SEOmoz pro seminar earlier in the year which I was looking forward to but which I felt really didn’t give anything useful away so I want to make this post as detailed and useful as possible. If I miss anything you think should be included let [...]
Don’t you hate it when SEO blogs start doing reviews to try to shift shitty tools with big affiliate paychecks?! I’ve wanted to do a review of Raven tools for a while but have resisted it until now for that very reason. As a precursor to the first review type post I’ve written here I [...]
This is a post I started writing ages ago and didn’t finish. This week people have been talking about Google’s latest revelation that they’re using Tweets and Facebook likes as part of their organic search algorithm. If you read my post on building links to ecommerce product pages you’ll know that this is something I’ve [...]
This is one of those techniques which is rarely talked about when it comes to commercial SEO campaigns but its one of my favourite ways to grab extra traffic and piss off competitors in the process;-) As any affiliates out there will know one of the easiest and most profitable ways to make money with [...]
A while back I posted about how you might be able to stop some of your less savy competitors copying your links. As a follow up I’ve just done a guest post over at sem-group.net entitled ‘How to stop your competitors copying your links‘ which discusses a few more ways you could go about hiding [...]
I’ve seen and heard people misunderstanding the idea of long-tail keywords right from newbie SEO account managers to SEO expert speakers at £500 a seat conferences. I really don’t think its that hard to get but there’s a lot of mis-information about, like the definition Google have chosen… Long tail keywords actually have nothing to [...]
If anyone’s been on my Twitter feed you may have noticed I came unfashionably late to the Twitter party. When I first saw short URLs popping up all over the place I didn’t really think much of it but now that Twitter is bigger than Jesus and tinyurl and bit.ly links are as common as [...]
This is a sneaky little trick more than a hard and fast strategy but I explained it to some SEO people the other day and they found it interesting so I thought I’d turn it into a post. Here’s the problem- one of the best ways to beat your competitors rankings is to mine their [...]
I was in my bank setting up a new stocks and shares ISA the other day and was asked the question which anyone who’s ever done any sort of investing will be familiar with- what is my attitude to risk? That question really resonates with me because I think this is a question we have [...]