Sometimes during meetings people will say to me “hasn’t SEO all changed now since update x” or “it doesn’t work any more does it?”. They get this impression from various sources. Including the never ending spam emails from companies in lands far away offering SEO services. Sometimes they offer “penguin compliant SEO Services”…
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Keyword Research For SEO – Part 4
Now you have a list that gives you a rough idea of what people search for. By comparing the different terms you get any idea of the users intent. They all include the term “Liverpool” so it is likely they are looking to procure a service. If they just wanted…
Keyword Research For SEO – Part 3
The Keyword Planner also made more suggestions some of which are relevant such as “accountants in liverpool”. To filter out a lot of the irrelevant results I could paste my list from my initial spreadsheet to do with accountants in to where it says “keywords to include”. This will take…
Keyword Research For SEO – Part 2
Straight From The Horse’s Mouth The best place to go for keyword research is to sign up to Google Adwords and use the Adwords Keyword Planner. It use to be available without an Adwords account but they changed that. Don’t worry you don’t have to actually spend any money on…
Keyword Research For SEO – Part 1
If you are going to perform Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) in the hope of gaining higher rankings in search engines it is important to do keyword research first. Good keyword research can help reveal: which keywords potential visitors or customers are using, how often they use those keyword which keywords…
How Many Words Do My SEO Pages Need To Be – Part 2?
If you are writing content to increase your pagerank and hopefully your ranking then it becomes important to know the minimum page length that you can get away with posting on a regular basis without getting you penalised by Google. Although Google doesn’t have a minimum length that they recommend…
How Many Words Do My SEO Pages Need To Be?
This really depends on the purpose of the page. Consider the following: Are you writing a page that you want Google to index and potentially show when people search for whatever the page is about? If the page is within a competitive market do you want it to show for…
What is Search Engine Optimization?
Search Engine Optimization, referred to as SEO for short, is 1) a process that aims to ensure that search engines understand the content of your website and 2) a process aiming to improve your website’s rankings within the most popular search engines. 1) Understanding Your Website Most of the time…
Is On Site or Off Site SEO More Important?
SEO can be thought of as on site SEO (or on page SEO) and off site SEO. On site SEO consists of your website, the number of pages it has, the content of those pages, the way the pages are linked together, the speed of your website and many other…
My Pagerank Study
I did some research back in July 2013 to confirm something that most Search Engine Optimisers are aware of but fail to really understand the implications of it. That adding large amounts of unique content to your website is a safe and very efficient way to greatly increase your website’s…