The Big Heid

SEO, Search Marketing and The Social Web – Help & Advice

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 [...]

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