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Why bother creating a great website when………

I’ve spoken about link building in here on a few occasions as having good quality links to your site impacts Google’s view of it and therefore where it places your site in the SERPs for relevant searches. It’s also common knowledge that this measure of a site’s importance is being abused as sites buy links [...]

How do I get onto page one of Google

A question often posed by site owners is something along the lines of how do I get onto page one of Google and how long will it take. The question is usually posed in a ‘what are the things I need to do’ as if there is a magic solution. Of course there are many [...]

More on linking….

Genuine links to your website from other trusted sites will improve its ranking. A link from a site to yours is effectively a vote for your site that tells Google your site has great content. Google looks at not just the content on the sites that link to you, but also who’s linking to them [...]

Linking

If ever there was a subject that caused confusion it’s SEO and one part of SEO that causes much confusion is linking. So, what’s a link and what’s it for. In simple terms THIS is a link, it links to our homepage. If you click it you will leave this page and visit our homepage. [...]

It’s a wet night in Barrow…

Walking through my home town just before close of business last Saturday I walked past a small record shop situated down a quiet side street. A quick glance through the shop window saw a lady looking forlornly towards the door in the vein hope of a customer at the 11th hour. It got me to [...]

Fishing is all about the bait you choose

Establishing good links to your site is an important aspect of SEO. In simple terms when other sites link to yours the software at the Googleplex thinks your site must be important, and this improves your site’s ranking. OK, I know, that’s a bit simplistic but you get the idea. Chasing one way links is [...]

Be realistic about SEO and your market

I was recently asked to review a site for a potential client. They wanted to get more visitors to their site – great, that’s what we do, only thing is they were operating in a VERY competitive market, against lot’s of quality competiton using a thirty bob ‘build your own’ type website. Guys, if you [...]

Stop moaning and engage with SEO suppliers!

In the UKBF SEO section you often see posts from people who are bemoaning SEO’s, suggesting they’ve been ripped off and whining about how the language of SEO is confusing and misleading. In essence you can’t start looking at SEO and immediately have a grasp of the many aspects of it. For sure a good [...]

Make it easy on yourself

In my opinion if you are doing SEO well you will be spending a lot of time on your website, fine tuning content and content tags, adding new content, deleting old content and so on. You will also have a sitemap (won’t you) that needs updating. If doing all these things on your site is [...]

We are No.1 in Google!!

I wish I had a pound for every time I’ve heard someone post this in a forum or proclaim it in some other way. In and of itself it’s a pointless and meaningless statement. If someone ever tells you they are No.1 in Google ask them ‘for what search phrase‘, if they answer that ask [...]