Posted on October 9th, 2009
I’ve started frequenting another forum, sad I know but I enjoy helping people to better understand the apparent complexities of web land. A link building question caught my eye so I clicked in and was quite amused to see someone state that “some SEO companies are charging £20 for one link!” as if that was [...]
Posted on September 24th, 2009
I’m going to post more snippets from SEO reviews I carry out as I think they will be helpful to other site owners who are serious about making their websites work for their business. I’ll always remove sensitive info and only post new thoughts. Here’s the latest. Fred, Google tries to serve up the most [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2009
I’m beginning to wonder if a lot of site owners are looking for a Snow White style magic mirror. Mirror mirror on the wall is my site’s SEO OK or do I need to put some effort in (I know, it doesn’t rhyme). Speaking of non rhyming… Of Nantucket there once was a lass, and [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2009
I recently did a quick and simple SEO review for a guy in South Africa. In essence he wanted to rank on page 1 of Google ZA for the phrase website hosting. Like many people he is currently languishing on page 13 or 14, his site is fairly new with few quality links. In short [...]
Posted on September 14th, 2009
I received an unsolicited email today with some real gems in it. The guy, a SENIOR Search Consultant no less, gave me some pointers on where we are going wrong with our website. Apparently “Your website has 3950 back-links, meaning it’s not very popular“. Actually it has 455,000 but anyway, and “Right now your site has [...]
Posted on August 21st, 2009
In the crazy world of SEO it’s rare that a genuine player, not one of the self appointed gob shites that seem ever present, but a genuine player gives such a no nonsense overview of SEO. Google’s Matt Cutts delivers a great, entertaining but importantly comprehensive SEO talk in this unmissable video. Sure this quite [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2009
Hello children, today we are looking at your website’s search engine optimisation. If your website doesn’t use the words and phrases people use when they type searches into Google it won’t appear in search results. If your website doesn’t have links from other sites Google won’t know how important it is and it won’t appear [...]
Posted on August 11th, 2009
Not for the frst time I find myself challenged by link spam. As link building guru Eric Ward puts it, “The frenzy for link building today must be like what I imagine the gold rush was like in the 1800′s.“ I’m bombarded daily by emails from link pedlars, some with good intentions, most selling crap, [...]
Posted on July 31st, 2009
As you know, at Red Evo we think Joomla is a great CMS that creates superb search engine friendly websites. What we didn’t realise is that it’s even popular ‘up North’. Check this out! TTFN d
Posted on July 30th, 2009
Joomla creates great search friendly web sites right out of the box. This simple video shows you how we do it. I’m sure there are other great ways to use Joomla’s power but we know this one works TTFN d