DIY SEO (and stuff) for Small Businesses
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 [...]
If there’s one aspect of SEO that causes countless arguments and pointless slanging matches it’s the subject of Pagerank. I guess if you are reading this you are looking for a definitive answer on whether or not Pagerank really is dead, well read on.
The latest Pagerank talking shop started with Google’s announcement about removing Pagerank [...]
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 superb [...]
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
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Further to my last post/rant/moan/wine/whinge/ (delete as applicable) I’ve created a video (which became two videos thanks to YouTube’s 10 minute rule) to help SEO newbies cover the basics of on page SEO.
I hope they are simple enough to be of use, I’m sure you’ll let me know. Rather than embed them here you can [...]
If you think a website is like a brochure where you can just set it and forget it you would be better off to just forget it and save yourself the effort of the ’set it’ part.
Websites are living documents that grow and evolve and this means you need to accept owning and running a [...]
This post is really only for the SEO newbie, SEO magicians can safely ignore it…….or can they?
I was helping some people in a forum recently and the tone of the conversation was something like “I’ve built a website but Google still doesn’t show my site when people search for blah blah blah…”
I took a quick [...]
How many home pages have you got? No I’m not talking about canonical issues, I’m talking about how many home pages your site has.
If your SEO is working every page on your site is a potential landing page. This means every page on your site has one chance to make a first impression. Use your [...]
OK, the long and the short of linking is this. To rank for a competitive term you need links. Links are like votes and votes win seats, or in this case search engine positions. Setting aside all the follow, no follow, pagerank blah blah blah, links are the life blood of the search engine algos. [...]
I love people who tell it like it is. Not people who tell you they tell it like it is in a “I’m a straight talking guy and I’m going to offend you” no, not them, they are arse holes. The people I’m talking about are people who give straight seo advice.
In blogosphere that’s awash [...]
