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I’m doing another review this week but I don’t have access to Google Webmaster tools for this website. Quite we’ll get a client who has the same issue. They’re scared of the power their web developer wields and are afraid to ask them for access in case as they don’t want to have the confrontation. […]

This week I take a look at a mate’s site. Sean Callanan of SportsGeek. There are some common SEO issues that I’m seeing in Sean’s site that I see on a lot of sites and in our experience when you fix these things you get a good bump in rankings. 1. Check your sitemap entry […]

In case you missed it, a couple of weeks ago Google released another major Panda update. If you’re new here Panda is the code name given to an algorithm update that focuses on “quality” issues. I use the term quality loosely as it is what Google is deciding as quality not what you or I […]

It wasn’t that long ago that google was telling us we should use a sub domain for our mobile sites. Here’s Matt Cutts banging on about the benefits of using m dot for the mobile version of your site. Then about a year later they began saying we’d prefer it if you used responsive design […]

I tell this method to people a lot but they never do it. I don’t know whether they think it sounds too easy so they don’t try it but if I want to rank for a difficult phrase this is how I do it. These steps presuppose that you don’t have other horrible things wrong […]

I’m up here at the Pesa 2014 conference delivering the SEO workshop. We have 24 people in today so it should be interesting getting through everyone’s questions . I’m still changing and updating the SEO presentation as I type. So much to get for reatilers in the light of recent Panda updates. I’m writing this […]

So in case you haven’t heard there was another Google Panda update last week. The Panda updates are all about “quality”. I’m using quotation marks here as quality is a subjective thing unless you’re an algorithm. As Sugarrae points out in her post this week , a lot of businesses were caught up this week […]

SEO is not hard. Let me rephrase that, SEO is not that hard once you have a feel for it. Like most things , the more you do it, the better you get at it. Of course there are situations where SEO can become complicated because of the platform you are using but for the […]

A couple of months ago I was looking into how Interflora had risen so quickly in a particular category. Well they keep rising like a jewish carpenter in all their old categories. Their rankings originally got smashed in the Penguin 2012 update and then further obliterated in the update we discovered just over a year […]

I was talking to a mate during the week and she wasn’t sure which phrase she should rank for given that there were variations of it. In today’s video I do an SEO review of her site and also a little bit of keyword research for her. It occurred to me afterwards that the keyword […]