As SEOs and webmasters we have a lot of work on our plate, and because of that we try to use any help we can get to speed things up and improve our work rate, make it as productive as possible. This is one of the reasons why we use so many tools in this [...]
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SEO Tools for Best Performance in SEO Campaigns
Published by December 19th, 2011 in Keywords, Link Building, SEO and Tools. 0 CommentsWhen you compete in a running race, there’s a few things that we generally assume:
You have a functional set of legs and an understanding of how to use them
You have (at the very least) a reasonable level of fitness
And it helps if you’ve done some training and/or other preparation for the big race
None of the [...]
The blurred line between what is SEO and what isn’t
Published by February 26th, 2009 in Blogging, Marketing, SEO, Social Media, Usability and Web Development. 2 CommentsJust read an interesting post on Ben Wilks’ Blog about SEO and Social Media.
Basically Ben comments on a thread over at WMW which indicates that social media is a waste of time and doesn’t yield a great deal of SEO value.
I both agree and disagree with this.
But before continuing, it’s important to understand what [...]
No, I’m not talking about black, white, blue, grey or any other coloured hat you might wear whilst doing SEO, but instead I want to talk about how Search Engines are really very much like fashionista’s.
To explain this a little better, let’s look at how the fashion industry works.
A designer will come-up with a ‘new [...]
Some clarification about maintaining your rankings
Published by January 24th, 2008 in SEO. 3 CommentsYesterday I wrote a post on Maintaining Your Rankings which attracted the attention of a friend and local ‘old school’ SEO Ben Wilks.
In Ben’s post he states:
Now I am not ripping into Pete too far here, but I disagree with his advice. What scares me is the fact that nobody has pulled him up [...]
I got a call yesterday from a disgruntled gentleman who explained that about a year ago they had some extensive SEO work performed on their website. Since then they hadn’t done anything wrong, but they were no longer ranking at the top. After doing a few checks, the client was right – their site [...]
At a business networking function towards the end of last year, I met a woman who was promoting a charity cook book designed to raise money for premature babies at the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital.
The One-Armed Cookbook is a collection of easy recipes (supplied by friends, family, chefs and even a few celebrities) specifically [...]
Recently Wiep Knol compiled a great document about Link Value Factors. Basically the document contains the views of many well respected SEOs on the topic of link building – and more specifically which factors are most and least important.
This is yet another great SEO resource, but when reading through it, I couldn’t help but [...]
SEO is not for everyone… Wait a minute – YES IT IS
Published by January 2nd, 2008 in SEO. 4 CommentsI read a lot of blogs and at times I get behind on my readings. To keep on top of things, I’ll often skim through posts without really reading them properly, and later I go back through the posts that seemed pretty good when I have more time.
In my recent skimming I noticed a [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about SEOing a site on a limited budget and one of the points I made was that the moment a price is mentioned prospective clients seem to get scared away.
Landon found this post thanks to our recent review on ProBlogger and made the suggestion:
It would be [...]
