Category Archives: Search Engine Optimisation
My CMS does the SEO for me! Rubbish – No it doesn’t!
I have been told by site owners that their web designer told them their CMS does the SEO automatically so they need not worry about it. This is just nonsense. The best a CMS system is going to do for you is use what you input. If you input the right things in the right places then the CMS is going to output your data in the right places. If you do not know how to use keywords and where to input them the CMS system isn’t going to sort it out for you. Continue reading
Link Bait – The Natural Approach to Link Building
Link Bait may be a term you have heard – this means building great content that attracts inbound links (links to your website) naturally. So rather than searching for links, you are bringing the links to you through attractive site content. Blog this! … Continue reading
“Does Google consider SEO to be spam?”
Googles view on the validity of SEO from Matt Cutts (Head of Google’s Webspam team). Matt has just released a new video on Youtube giving Googles view on SEO. He comments on good “whitehat” SEO techniques that Google considers to … Continue reading
Astroturfing, the new blackhat SEO gravy train
Astroturfing, the latest SEO blackhat technique for cheating the search engine results, involves creating fake fans, likes and reviews for websites to get a boost in google rankings Continue reading
Are you Affected by the Google Panda Update?
Googles latest algorithm update hit the UK on 12 April around a month after the USA. Content copied from other sites, content automatically generated for the search engines, little content but hundreds of links, lots of advertising – does this … Continue reading
