Okay, little disclaimer to start with, not all SEO agencies/companies and freelancers rip people off. There are many that are doing great work, following Google’s recommendations on adding quality resources to websites and looking to increase the popularity of their client’s websites in the search results by making their websites a much better resource for […]

When I’m doing SEO courses for companies, often client’s seem surprised when they hear there is no magic switch to pick up Google page 1 rankings (e.g. they want to do no extra work and rankings magically appear). It really is about working harder than the competition, by making your website a great resource and […]

The Disavow tool launched late last year and I am still seeing companies, webmaster’s and others making mistakes when submitting a Disavow file. Here I’ll quickly list the 5 common mistakes that I see when users have submitted a Disavow file.

Over the years I’ve seen plenty of clients who struggle to complete content for their websites because they work in a “boring” industry. These industries may include cleaning, industrial, law, financials etc.. Anyway, read through this blog post from SEOmoz and see how you can use it to start producing the content which is going to do […]

Nearly all organisations I visit have huge gaps in the keywords and phrases they target on their website. They are basically missing a big % of their traffic by not targeting these keywords or not producing enough content to target the long tail search phrases. One tool I’ve discovered is Ubber Suggest, you simply type […]

You can’t say you wasn’t warned! Last year Matt Cutts did say they were looking at exact match domains and if they should rank so well. It seems they have now taken action and I think it is for the better. Minor weather report: small upcoming Google algo change will reduce low-quality “exact-match” domains in […]