Posts by Mindy Gofton on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

You know that Twitter has crossed over into the mainstream when instead of bands telling people to check them out on MySpace, they instead ask the audience (several times) to follow them on Twitter.Last night, in front of a packed crowd in Holmfirth, Wedding Present and Cinerama front man David... read more

Here at I-COM, our SEO consultants cut through the confusing gibberish of the internet like a knife through a lasagne sandwich (lasandwich to those in the know). If you're a business new to internet marketing, with a little SEO training we can help you understand all the great things that SEO... read more

It seems that somewhere in the night theTwitter fairy stole in and introduced a new feature: Name results.While we're not seeing this sort of result for all name searches, on selected searches Twitter is returning results for potential Twitter users that match the searcher's query.We assume this... read more

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

We  got a great spam comment from an "SEO" agency this morning:For those of you who can't read it and don't want to enlarge the image, that link has a rel="dofollow" attribute attached to it.  Here's the thing - there's no such thing as a "dofollow" attribute. The search engines created... read more

Years ago there was this great, authoritative resource called The Open Directory (Or DMoz). This directory prided itself on being staffed by volunteers in it for the value of the resource and to give something back to the web. Their job was to find the best sites on the internet and list them by... read more

Yesterday was the first (annual) SASCon (that's #sascon if you want to see what people were saying on Twitter about it) SEO Conference, held at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester and the first major SEO event in Manchester. For an inagural event I must say I was impressed with the quality of the... read more

In honour of the UK Government rushing through the Digital Economy Bill despite mass online protest about the provisions regarding copyright infringement online, we're republishing a selection of responses. Naturally, as our own ISP we are now legally required to monitor ourselves and report... read more

Some readers may have seen our "announcement" this morning about a new "premium" SEO service called the "SEO Red Button" which purports to get you to the top of Google for a single keyword (in fact, to remove all other listings but yours for the keyword) with the push of a red button by our SEO... read more

We get asked frequently about the value of XML sitemaps for SEO. Apparently many SEO firms are saying, as part of their sales pitches, that where a current SEO company hasn't created an automated sitemap they are damaging a company's potential for ranking. I say this is total and complete... read more