By David Taylor in Search Engine Optimisation on Monday, July 6, 2009 @ 16:35
I'm looking forward to tomorrow's Social Media Cafe at the BBC in Manchester. I've been to 5 of them now and have enjoyed the time I've spent a them and the people I've met. I've even made a couple of friends! There are a LOT of SEO people signed up to visit this one - 14... read more
By Adrian Berry in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, June 26, 2009 @ 14:44
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
By Mindy Gofton in Search Engine Optimisation on Thursday, June 25, 2009 @ 14:51
So I was doing a bit of research this morning in Google under the query "affordable health insurance." I got the following result: Enlarge image in a new window Now, bearing in mind that I'm searching on google.co.uk, I've been given 3 American sites in the top 5 - although on the whole... read more
By Mike Blackburn in Search Engine Optimisation on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 @ 08:51
Some people watch stocks go up and down, SEO’ers watch listings. One of the most watched sites is GoCompare. They advertise heavily on TV which drives strong brand awareness – people know the GoCompare name. What typically happens is that they then go to the internet and type... read more
By Mindy Gofton in Search Engine Optimisation on Monday, June 15, 2009 @ 10:46
When people find out I work in search engine optimisation I get two reactions. The first is confusion from people who have never heard of SEO. The second is disgust - from people who have. SEO consultants are like the used car salesmen of the internet, or so people seem to think. Even other... read more
By Tim Roberts in Search Engine Optimisation on Thursday, May 7, 2009 @ 08:30
I feel slightly better for having had my rant on so called search engine optimising companies sending out spurious crap by email. The real cause of the rant was not the email - that was merely the final straw that put me over the edge! I had a meeting with an excellent company... read more
By Tim Roberts in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 @ 11:52
I know that I have ranted about this in the past and even my Operations Director Mike Blackburn has recently blogged about the same company and their email approaches! Another "Senior Search Consultant" from the same comapny has now sent an email to our client The Smile Centre... read more
By Kate Silvers in Search Engine Optimisation on Thursday, April 23, 2009 @ 08:28
I was reading an article earlier on a fellow search engine marketing blog which reminded me of something very important when it comes to measuring the success of SEO – that first page listings are not the be-all and end-all of online success. At I-COM, we too are putting less emphasis on... read more
By Adrian Berry in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 @ 10:10
Recently we've seen Google dropping the index page of a client’s site while leaving nearly all the other web pages in the index. There were server errors previously (robots.txt not reachable) in Webmaster Tools but Google had been back spidering the site since the issue was corrected and... read more
By Mike Blackburn in Search Engine Optimisation on Thursday, April 9, 2009 @ 09:56
Three things that really get my goat day-to-day as we try to run a SEO business. In no particular order they are: Recruitment Companies - we must take at least 15 calls a day from agents looking to provide us with staff. We're fortunate enough to be growing but they should learn that... read more
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