Article Archive of Posts Tagged “Search Engine Rankings”

So you have a brand. You sell red widgets, but really high end, luxury widgets with all the bells and whistles. You learned to make widgets by hand when you were 14 and you take great pride in your work - and people phone you from all over the country when they want a really special red widget.... read more

When it comes to utilising the powers of the blog I-COM has been leading the way, and in a number of blog posts we have explained how to use a blog in order to turn your site into a content driven, visitor and search engine magnet. Recently I gave a presentation at the Manchester Growth Show... read more

A report published in the Law Society Gazette revealed that the internet has become indispensable when choosing a solicitor. The YouGov poll of 2,266 people found that after recommendations by friends, internet search engines and online review sites were the second most popular way to... read more

OK so it may not be as simple as that but, as one of the senior SEO Consultants here at I-COM, I thought it was about time I shared some of my tips and tricks that I've gathered over nearly 10 years of Search Engine Optimisation and link building. While we all know that social media... read more

I'll be sharing my online marketing secrets with attendees to the 4Networking Business Breakfast on Tuesday 26th January, at Premier Inn, Trafford Centre West. The event will run between 08.00 and 10.00am. Here at I-COM we believe that having a great looking website is useless if no-one ever... read more

Those of us in the online marketing industry, in fact in any industry which relies heavily on the internet to generate revenue, are waiting with baited breath for the introduction of Google Caffeine. In fact, we’ve already blogged about it here. If you’re a client of I-COM, I had some... read more

Like everyone else in the SEO world, I've been following the news on the Google Caffeine infrastructure update with interest, but as always I'm surprised by the rush within the SEO world to declare what's different, especially as Caffeine is still in Beta and is likely to continue to change -... read more

Every day businesses are bombarded with offers from companies hoping to help them acquire links to boost their site's performance on Google.We'd be the last people to suggest that links don't have an effect, but as has been discussed previously on this blog you have to be careful how you use... read more

So it seems someone has set up a blog to promote an "SEO competition" amongst Manchester SEO firms.If you don't know, an "SEO competition" traditionally involves picking a specific keyword phrase or term and setting a time limit and the winner is whoever's at #1 on the finishing date. The... read more

Over the years many SEO companies have touted link building as "the magic bullet" for improving search engine rankings - you get lots of back links with the correct anchor text linking to your site and the sheer weight of numbers will make your site rank in the top ten for a certain... read more