SEO can be a confusing topic, with many conflicting opinions and a number of areas which are (to say the least) more than a little grey. Well, grey is no use to anyone, so in this guide to SEO in 2016 I have explored over 80 common SEO questions and (in most cases) provided definitive answers. I have also […]
Continue readingToday’s internet is incredibly fast moving. In my many years as an internet marketer I have observed (and been party to) the quickening pace, but things really seem to have accelerated over the past year. I am seeing lots of new sites popping up and achieving rapid growth, generating eye watering amounts of traffic in […]
Continue readingAuthority. If you are a regular reader of internet marketing/SEO blogs, you’ll see that word popping up a lot; become an authority, build your authority, authority this, authority that. It’s probably up there with ‘content is king’ as the most overused phrase in SEO, but you know what, there is a reason for that… It’s because it’s true. […]
Continue readingHere are a few basic SEO tips that editors can follow, which are cost effective and can boost your readership without breaking the bank:
Continue readingThe question of how to remove pages from google’s index has popped up twice in conversations with SEO clients in the last couple of days (perhaps fulled by the post Panda 4.0 panic…). The process is pretty straight forward, but one that often causes confusion and is surprisingly easy to mess up. Here is how to do it right and (importantly) […]
Continue readingAn interesting experiment/case study today. I decided to take a mega competitive (and lucrative) keyword for our industry – ‘SEO’ – and take a look at what the top guys were doing to rank there. The results were shocking . Before I start, let me say that I’m not advising you follow what these guys […]
Continue readingWhile scanning through twitter yesterday I was drawn to a new post on Enstine Muki’s blog titled ‘Backlinks can ruin your SEO‘. In a nutshell the post is about being careful: – Who you get links from Where you link to Sounds sensible right? Well, unfortunately there is a problem with the message here and […]
Continue readingI was going to write up a simple list of my top SEO and internet marketing bloggers to follow in 2014. But then I thought… Lists are boring. So instead, I imagined I was the manager of SEO F.C. (that’s soccer to my American friends) and went ahead and selected my SEO and internet marketing […]
Continue readingYou may have heard that google has penalised MyBlogGuest (see http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2335246/Google-Penalizes-MyBlogGuest-a-Guest-Blog-Network). Since last week, the popular guest blogging community can no longer be found on google for branded searches. In fact a google search using site:myblogguest.com would suggest that the site has been completely de-indexed (the jobs.myblogguest subdomain is all that comes up here). Matt Cutts […]
Continue readingMatthew Woodward’s blog has received a lot of attention in the internet marketing world over the past year or so and deservedly so. He writes excellent, high quality tutorials, answers questions/comments, publishes regularly and has built strong relations in the SEO community. He’s also a very helpful, approachable, genuinely nice guy. All the good stuff! […]
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