SEO Blog
This is my first year at the PBEVENT and I’m giving an SEO Presentation, naturally. I’ve known @problogger for about 10 years and have always been a big fan of his work so I was delighted to be asked to present. On the flight up to the PBEvent every second passenger seemed to be going. […]
As you know, when Google begins to bang on about something it is a good idea to pay attention. Usually if they spend time trying to get people to take note of a concept or idea they are implementing it into their algorithm. Now they are ramping up around authorship. Here are a few things […]
In this week’s video I take a shot at predicting the outcome of Australia’s Federal Election by looking at what people are typing into Google and what they are watching on YouTube. Here are my top 4 tips for keyword research that will help you pinpoint what your customers are looking for. 1. Use Google […]
Coming to you from the Island of Kauai in Hawaii this week 🙂 I’m looking at a local site from a village where I’m staying. Some of the SEO they are doing is great but there are some fundamentals they are not doing which means they are missing out on a lot of traffic. 1. […]
Bing? What? Stay with me. When I read this article about Google reading my emails I had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. Sure I’d always suspected it but against my better judgement I went with the cloud email a couple of years back. It made me stop and think how much […]
I always find it odd the things people type into Google. Google tells us that one in five search phrases have never been typed into Google before. 20%! That’s crazy. This is one of the reasons it’s so important to keep creating content. Every piece of copy you publish is another opportunity for you to […]
About five weeks ago I wrote a series of blog posts detailing my attempts to rank for an SEO related phrase. It took 72 hours to get on page one and then by doing nothing it went to the no.2 spot and stayed there. Step 1. Write some good content The era of getting a […]
I see one of these articles every other week, proclaiming the death of SEO. I usually ignore them because they are just headline grabbers. This one annoyed me a little though because it was published The Guardian newspaper and was very blunt in it’s headline “SEO is dead”. No ambiguity there. Whilst the whole premise […]
Just at the end of May, post Penguin 2.0 I noticed a flurry of pingback notifications. If you one wordpress site creates a backlink to another wordpress site, the site creating the backlink sends a notification automatically in the form of a comment to the site it’s linking too. If you have auto publishing of […]
They’re both black and white but they are very different animals. I’ve spoken to a lot of business owners in the last 8 week’s because their traffic has gone through the floor. Most of them seem to know vaguely the time of the slap but they are a little hazy on the dates. You need […]
