The Big Heid

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

Twenty Quid for a Link!?

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 [...]

Another SEO Review Snippet

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 [...]

Mirror Mirror On the Wall…

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 [...]

A Generic SEO Review

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 [...]

F##k Me They Are Still Out There!

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 [...]

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