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While I’ve been involved in SEO for a while it still surprises me quite how unfamiliar many people are with the concept of Search Engine Marketing. My Mum, for example, while she might not have been familiar with SEM she certainly is affected by its outcome. She, like many others will be doing a large proportion of her Christmas shopping online, the BBC reported last year how as much as £7bn will be spent online in the run up to the festive ...

This is an old post that I found in the depth of my documents, while the test is old I certainly think the point of the article remains Ages ago Aaron Wall made a short post promoting a friends online web tool. In the post Aaron suggested, given Page Rank’s infrequent updates and old data that the date Google last cached your site was a better indication of how much Google “trusted” your site than the green strip in the Google ...

There’s no avoiding how fundamental keyword research is to the natural search marketing process. Without it how will you know if your site is sending the right relevance signals to search engines? Without them how will you measure your performance? (Admittedly ranking reports are rapidly becoming less and less relevant though they still have a place in most clients KPIs) How will you know you’re looking at the right competitors when carrying ...

The social media bookmarklet has become a de-facto element in most new website designs. And while I love social media and think it can have some huge benefits for websites; I think including social bookmarklets like AddThis to a new web build default is at best lazy-ness and at worse symptomatic of a complete miss-understanding of how social media works. So after I went off on a bit of rant about them in the office I thought I needed an ...

There’s been hundreds if not thousands of articles written about link bait. I’d hazard a guess that there’s probably even more articles about how to write the bait than there is paid up pieces of link bait for clients. But with this post I’m going two try and write about something slightly different. With link bait the content is hugely important. There are some great articles out there about how to write titles, about making your ...

At the moment doom and gloom seems to surround the economy, whether or not search marketing budgets are going to fall remains to be seen though. We’ve had a few clients get more pragmatic with their spend; but generally it doesn’t seem as bad as everyone feared. Though that could easily change. But with every negative situation there comes opportunities. And in the search sphere there are few you’d be mad not to take advantage of. Buy ...

Long term you need to do just two things (neither of which are particularly simple) in terms of link building. Continuously add link worthy content to your site, ensure the linkerati are aware of it (whether via social media or good old fashioned email.) photo credit: Fujoshi But sometimes when you are starting the link building process you’ll want to quickly and easily get a few good quality links pointing at a site to kick start the ...