By Mindy Gofton in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, October 10, 2008 @ 13:40
Search Engine Land published an interview this week with Google about Local Search. One answer struck me as particularly important for local brick and mortar businesses whose offline traffic is often driven by people looking for their services or address online. The interviewer asked Google... read more
By Mindy Gofton in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, October 3, 2008 @ 16:45
Wired posted an article recently about Google's pledge to not be evil. Now, call me crazy, but the particular examples they've cited are not very controversial. They've left out a whole range of privacy issues and lack of communication and feedback for webmasters on the evil side and not... read more
By Kate Silvers in Search Engine Optimisation on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 @ 09:11
Despite online marketing being the fastest growing area of marketing for the past couple of years, with talk of Google, SEO, PPC, and a whole host of other abbreviations becoming virtually commonplace, it seems that a number of companies are extremely cautious still when it comes to taking... read more
By Mike Blackburn in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, September 26, 2008 @ 08:46
I have just read a gem of an article on e-consultancy that seems to claim that to be a good SEO company you have to specialise in nothing but SEO. I wonder if it's because the firm that wrote it, Vertical Leap, only have SEO people and they're looking to justify their position? I... read more
By Adrian Berry in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 @ 16:30
Yahoo! search results now include full length tracks when you search for certain musicians and bands. While I really like this feature I've got a terrible feeling that I'm probably gonna get "outed" for my terrible taste in music...Notice the duplicate content. It seems that "Heat of the Moment"... read more
By Mindy Gofton in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 @ 14:55
While trying to find some simple articles for a client today, we stumbled across the following comment on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: OK, so, this spammer has made a post on the official Google blog asking why his site hasn't been indexed and adding a spammy, keyword... read more
By Mike Blackburn in Search Engine Optimisation on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 @ 14:05
We're on the look out for some more talented individuals to join our team because we're winning new clients. What we need most urgently are some SEO Programmers to join our expanding team of professional SEO consultants. Ideally the people who get the jobs will have experience of working in a... read more
By Mindy Gofton in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, August 29, 2008 @ 15:40
We've been writing a lot about link building tricks to avoid. This is because we see so many sites suffering from the effects of link building campaigns that were more like link spamming campaigns and which are easily recogniseable by the likes of Google.This week we've seen a new spin on an old... read more
By Mindy Gofton in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 @ 16:41
Today we found the funniest SEO parody site on the internet. At least we hope it's parody. It is pure comedy gold. We thought we'd share. read more
By Catherine Mansell in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, August 22, 2008 @ 16:25
Links are very important to achieve high rankings in Google but is it that simple? What if the sites linking to your site have been created solely for that purpose? Having recently worked on a site where the client’s previous SEO company had bought up domains and created hundreds of... read more
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