The Big Heid

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

New FREE Keyword Tool – With a Twist

Keyword tools are superb. I use them and love them. Sometimes however just creating a list of seed keywords can be a challenge, especially if you are too close to the subject or company. With the phenomenon of social networking it seemed plausible that my various networks of contacts might be able to help. So [...]

SEO is Not a F****g Black Art!

Sorry about the title but I’m starting to get hot under the collar about people who simply won’t accept that SEO isn’t a black art. It seems that no matter how many times a TITLE element is explained or how many times you explain to people what an H1 tag is they just shrug their [...]

Small Business SEO

The most frequent users of our FREE SEO Review service are small businesses. Small business SEO does however present some problems. To do SEO well takes time and in business time equals money. There’s no getting around that simple fact and any company who are offering SEO for thirty bob a month ($1.50) are either [...]

Are You the Proud Owner of a ‘Zero Effort’ Website?

I’m wondering if having a website has become too easy. Perhaps all this great free software like Joomla!, Drupal, Zencart and WordPress have made owning a website so simple even fools can do it. Complete idiots can create great looking websites, utter buffoons can run on-line shops. Surely this is wrong? Well actually it’s not [...]

Dear John….

An email from a client this week resulted in a response from me that I decided was worthy of the blog. Dave, Thank-you for the information this week – SEO is probably the most frustrating job in the world. You can be doing work on it, but it takes time to see what is effective, [...]

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