How to 301 redirect a WordPress site
The process of setting up a 301 redirects in your .htaccess file is straight forward using cpanel, but needs to be followed in the correct order. This step by step guide will help you through it. Continue reading →
HTML Title Tags For SEO
Adding title tags to your pages is an important, yet extremely easy, HTML tweak you can make to your pages to increase ranking positions. The title tag will get displayed in the browser window (see above graphic) in addition to the search result pages. Continue reading →
Has The iPhone4 S and iOS5 Changed SEO?
Part of the new features with the latest iPhone 4 S is the voice recognition software, Siri. Siri is able to take notes, set reminders and todo tasks by voice – a handy and useful feature that works far better than previous versions seen on other devices. Continue reading →
Do Search Engines Use Meta Tags?
One of the most outdated SEO methods is to try to optimize a page or website using the meta tags. The search engines no longer use the meta tags for ranking. This had proven too easily manipulated, and led to an internet filled with spam.
In fact, Google’s singular greatest accomplishment was finding a replacement for meta tags and other on site SEO methods, replacing them with linking data. Continue reading →
How To Optimise Your Flash Website for Best SEO
Google has become considerably more advanced over the years, and one of the most impressive changes that they have made is the ability to read Flash.
Flash is a format that allows for interactive animations to be displayed on a website. In the past, Google was unable to read any of the information that is stored within a Flash file. Today, it is able to sift through the code to find links and snippets of text, making it possible to discover Flash content in a web search. Continue reading →
How To Grab Your Readers Attention In 5 Simple Steps
You may have just had the best idea in the world and scribbled down the best news article of your career. You may have the scoop on how to end world hunger or cure cancer, or even just have the latest gossip on Justin Beiber’s new hairstyle. But all the most beautiful content about all the best ideas in the world aren’t worth anything – if you can’t get anyone to read it. Continue reading →
Quick And Easy Google Optimisation Tips
Say what you will about Facebook, Twitter, and brand identity. These are all excellent ways to promote a business online. That said, if people can’t find your site in Google, most people will never hear about you. Continue reading →
How To Optimise Your PDF’s For Best SEO – Can Search Engines Read PDFs?
Unlike image, video, and audio files, the search engines have actually gotten quite good at reading PDF files.
They often contain extremely useful information. If they are found on your site, it is a mistake not to take the time to optimise them for maximum visibility. Continue reading →
Basic Keyword Research Guide: Simple Steps For Keyword Success!
One of the most important and most neglected aspects of search engine optimization is keyword research. It takes a great deal of time and effort, and often money, to rank a site for a given keyword. Without performing at least some keyword research before doing so, you will have no way of knowing if it is worth the effort. Continue reading →
Are Search Engines Facing Extinction?
In a world where you can find anybody you are looking for on Facebook or LinkedIn, where mostly unbiased information can be found on Wikipedia, and where business directories can help you find almost any company you are looking for, does the world really need search engines? Continue reading →
How To Increase Website Traffic
No matter how you monetize your site, you will need traffic in order to earn money. Search engine rankings, social bookmarking chatter, and links are all secondary to traffic.
You could have a million “likes” on Facebook and receive no visitors.
You could rank number one in Google for a keyword and discover that it doesn’t bring you any visitors. You could build thousands of links and find that nobody ever clicks on them. Always remember that traffic is the end goal of site promotion. Everything else is just a means to an end. Continue reading →
Google Instant – Any Changes To Traffic Numbers? No, Not Really…Yet.
Since the launch of Google Instant on September the 8th, there has been a huge surge of SEO blog posts claiming ‘SEO is dead‘, website visitors will plummet, you must be top for a single keyword phrase, no more long tail searching, blah blah blah…But now the dust has settled, what has really changed? Continue reading →
What’s A Google Ranking Worth?
Working out the value of a top ranking is pretty straight forward and depends on three main factors which are discussed in this article: Continue reading →
Google Instant Search – What Is It And Do You Need To Be Bothered?
Those of you without Google accounts will be wondering what I’m going on about (you need to be signed in) but those who have searched on Google today will notice a change – real time results. Continue reading →
Organic SEO or PPC Advertising?
Even though there are a number of ways to literally put your website at the top of the major search engines, there are only two general channels used to achieve that goal – Organic SEO and PPC (pay-per-click) advertising. Continue reading →
Hiring an SEO Specialist: 3 Things You Need To Know Before You Start
Today, the SEO Specialist is more than just the web geek that sits at a computer for hours on end hacking away at a keyboard. Times have changed, and ‘the geek’ needs to know a lot more than just computer code to make it in the SEO field.
The geek has evolved, and now must offer a range of services – web design, copywriting, internet marketing, website monetisation and analytical research & reporting to name a few. Continue reading →
10 Vital Questions To Ask A Self Claimed ‘SEO Expert’
It can be a daunting task, hiring that new SEO specialist to start work on your website. Knowing what to ask, and more importantly, what sort of answers you should hear are vital to picking the right candidate.
You can take my list (if you like it) and use it to grill prospective SEO specialists, web design agencies who claim to ‘do SEO too’ or anyone else that happens to Continue reading →
Is SEO Bullshit?
The world of business became much more complex when the internet entered the picture. It was not just business that was massively changed, but many other facets of life as well.
However, the change is perhaps most noticeable in the business world simply because the corporations have swarmed the internet to provide more to their customers. Continue reading →
SEO Secrets – 101 SEO Secrets To Accelerate Your Online Marketing
I’m going to be blunt with you, SEO is not that hard. In fact, compared to what I used to do, (designing and developing websites for agencies) its pretty dang easy. The thing is, it takes time, patience, and understanding – and you never see big results over night. There are however, a few SEO pointers to get you heading in the right direction… Continue reading →
