It sounds trite. It sounds almost Fishkian in nature. That if you want to get high quality traffic through natural search you should stop thinking about your audience and not yourself. I left one of my early SEO jobs purely because of this beliefs : ranking for keywords is how we get people in (it’s [...]
Category Archives: seo
Kick Ass Link Development needs Kick Ass People
March 22, 2011 – 11:04 pm
I’m so tired of the first rule of SEO fight club being ignored. Maybe it’s the whole concept of community not being what it once was. I have a tight knit group of friends who I share stuff with (the things I would never put on this blog or be for general consumption) and there [...]
Link Love on Friday
August 29, 2008 – 11:20 am
I thought I should start posting here again as my other website is having a makeover. So in terms of todays post I’m just gonna stick in some links and blab a bit about why I like these sites. WP Themes Free – Ronseal website (it does what it says on the tin) and gives [...]
Google Boogie or Everflux expansion
August 15, 2007 – 10:03 am
Through my RSS readings this morings I came across a number of places talking about the “Google Boogie” – yep I’s never heard of it before either. From what I’ve read it came from Oyster Web and was then blogged at Spiderwriting (Bill get your permalinks fixed).
SEO Spam and Saving peoples jobs
August 10, 2007 – 2:06 pm
Ok. Was running a quick backlink check on some clients and a legacy client who I used to work for is in there. And there links jumped – nigh on doubled so I get a wee twinkle in my eye and start trying to work out why. Lo and behold their new SEO company, the [...]
Top 10 Plugins for Firefox
August 10, 2007 – 12:58 pm
Ok I am now running out of browser screen – its dying on me. All I have left is a narrow band of screen that displays very little and the rest of my screen has been usurped by Firefox toolbars and plugins. In an attempt to ween myself off these dainty, and ever breeding, Firefox [...]
Abuse your PPC to make more money in SEO
August 2, 2007 – 1:09 pm
After years of looking down my nose at PPC and seeing it as cheap, easy and little more than a bidding war that burns cash faster than the KLF on a beach I’ve came to the conclusion I was right. Maybe not the derision I feel for PPC but certainly the rest. The change has [...]
Google Backlinks by Data Centre
August 2, 2007 – 7:52 am
Have just been hacking away at back link stuff in Google for the basis of monthly reports and I keep getting multiple result sets for each back link query! AAARRRRGGGHHHH Below I’ve posted a list of Data Centres that I use for checking across the web. I got his list from another website a while [...]
Supplemental results are dead – long live SEO
August 1, 2007 – 11:21 am
Hmm. Ok so I’ve just been checking backlinks for sites, as the Google index has just updated them, and at the same time my RSS reader sends me a message from spiderwritingseo. And hereBill starts to discuss Supplemental results – and what Google is going to be doing with them. At various times we’ve had [...]
Intelligent SEO Research Tools
July 25, 2007 – 1:14 pm
Every day I’m hacking Google, MSN or Yahoo! for things that will make my life simpler. So I thought I would stick some in here for todays post. Oh and they’re also free – I do have some paid for things and things I’ve built maybe another day I’ll give these up! Keyword Research Keyword [...]