The Big Heid

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

When Did I Become The Old Guy?

A couple of years ago I had a seminal moment whilst training in a Muay Thai class. During a break from punching and kicking some friendly banter revealed I was the oldest guy in the class. I remember thinking, when did I become the old guy? I was shocked. I was used to being young [...]

Has Google Put the Paid Keyword Tools out of Business?

As a subscriber to both KWD and WT I’m wondering whether the latest modification to Google’s free keyword tool marks their imminent demise. In Google’s own words….. “This column shows the approximate average monthly number of search queries matching your keywords that were performed on Google and the search network over a recent 12-month period. [...]

Realtime SEO Can Focus The Mind

We all dig about in our sites analytics data to see what’s working and what isn’t. Analytics, what ever flavour you prefer, is a vital tool used by all SEO’s. Some analytics packages, such as Clicky give you data in virtual real time. You can see what visitors searched for, where they came from, which [...]

SEO is Best Served Chilled…

Reading through some excellent blogs and randomly following links I came across a post discussing if SEO was a service or a product. In fact it wasn’t really asking the question so much as stating that if you view SEO as a product you will more often than not be disappointed. It struck a chord [...]

Google Keyword Tool Showing Search Volume Numbers

There’s a strange phenomenon out there today…..Google’s keyword tool is showing some people search volume numbers instead of the little green bars. It seems some people can see it where others can’t! If this is rolled out the various paid keyword tools are going to suffer I should think, why pay for guessed numbers when [...]

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