DIY SEO (and stuff) for Small Businesses
As we grow as an SEO company we have started to attract a better class of link pimp selling their wares. This week yet another large company approached us offering us the ‘opportunity‘ of placing link spam onto the hallowed pages of their website.
Large companies with an extensive web presence, newspaper companies for example, have [...]
I’ve got a confession, I nearly bought some links. I’ll quickly state I didn’t go through with it but I came very very close.
To cut a long story short we were approached by a very large publisher who has a number of web properties offering article space in return for a fee. Each article presented [...]
I was reading a well known forum this week. In the SEO section there’s thread after thread promoting and asking about link spamming techniques. There’s everything from software that automatically creates profiles on forums to offers of a 1000 PR5 links for thirty bob and a fried fish.
There are also a shed load of people [...]
So here we are in 2010. A new year and you are hoping for great things from your website in this new, potentially austere, decade. Utterly confused about how to make your website more effective you trawl the web looking for a silver bullet.
Here’s a simple basic SEO overview and description.
What does Google do?
Google lists [...]
A subject that keeps coming up when we carry out FREE SEO Reviews or SEO Coffee Break sessions is that of buying links. Google’s pretty clear on this and the bottom line is, if you buy links to boost your site’s rankings you run the risk of getting banned from the index.
But is this the [...]
A client asked me “What is a good quality link and how do I get a good quality link. You said reciprocal links were no good is that correct?“. This was my response.
Reciprocal links are not always bad. If a site selling diving holidays links to a site selling wetsuits and the wetsuit site links [...]
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 daylight [...]
We all know how important links are. Google uses links in part to measure the importance of your site and link building is a common topic of discussion in business forums.
However, the scramble for links means that anything that resembles a linking opportunity is being used and abused, down grading the resource in the process.
Take [...]
If we polarise SEO there seems to be perhaps two camps. SEO’s who are trying to create better websites and SEO’s who are simply trying to create enough link spam to get their client’s sites ranking.
Ben McKay makes some interesting points in his post about SEO as branding. He talks about latent semantics and how [...]
It’s well documented that Google’s algo is based on many things, some little understood, but links certainly play a significant role. If your site is linked from other sites, or more precisely your pages are linked from other pages, there’s a good chance they will benefit, but why is this and is it a fair [...]
