New SEO Trends

We all know that SEO or search engine optimization helps improve site rankings. Since Google is the most commonly used, its standards are used as a peg for configuring SEOs. SEO basics require delivering value, creating great content and promotions, but there are times when Google changes their algorithms. So here are tips that you can follow to improve SEOs. High-Quality Sites Have you noticed that Google is now giving more importance to sites with great designs, good branding and unique content? The challenge now is to improve and make sure that ... 0 Comments

Link Bait Technique: Stir Up Controversy

I wrote something on link baiting in the previous post. Now who would not want to get some other sites to link to his or her blog, right? Well, one way by which you can do that is to stir up some controversy. Get right into the heat of things and get people to notice you! You know the saying that nice people always finish last? It is something like that, except that you do not have to be “un-nice” to stir up some controversy. The idea is to pick one of the hottest topics ... 0 Comments

Keywords in Your Post Title

As promised, here is another post on how you can best use keywords to boost your SEO efforts for your blog. Let me ask you, how do you come up with post titles? Do you like coming up with a cryptic and catchy title? Or do you think about other things? Uniquely interesting titles are good. When they are outrageous and cryptic, they do tend to get more clicks as human readers would wonder what the post might be about. However, if you focus solely on this consideration, your post might not even make it to ... 0 Comments

Dealing with More Serious Forms of Plagiarism

Last time we discussed how you can deal with people who use portions of your original content and post it on their site without permission. Usually plagiarism of that kind is simply an oversight and most website owners would gladly cite you as the source and of course link back to you instead of having to delete portions of their own website or a blog post. There are times when plagiarism is more serious in that it copies a rather large portion of your website's content or the entire website ... 0 Comments

How to assess your SEO requirements

A position of complete ignorance is never a strong position to be in. When it comes to business concerns, it is an unacceptable position to be in. The difficulty is, when you’re looking to access specialist services, you are usually doing it because you don’t know much about the field in question. It’s as applicable for search engine optimization as it is for any other area of business. It is far more desirable to approach a specialist with some knowledge of their subject, and in SEO, that is not too difficult to do. Even so, there is a distinct possibility that when your SEO company’s assessment of your site comes in, a lot of the information on that assessment won’t be expected. A good search engine optimization company will be able to answer your questions, and you can discuss any optimization concerns with our experts at www.seoconsult.co.uk. It can also be a good idea to know what to look for on your site to estimate the SEO work to be done. 1. Assess your pages. The things you should be looking for on your pages include the amount of content you already have, your existing link profile, any disputes with the search engines you’ve had in the past, and your current site 0 Comments

Syndicating Your RSS for Faster Indexing

We've been talking about RSS feeds and what it can do for your website. We know that incorporating RSS feeds into your site results in more frequent visits from search engine spiders and thus leads to faster indexing. Have you realized however that by syndicating your RSS feeds successfully you can achieve the same results? How so? If you have subscribers when a search engine spider crawls your subscriber's site (assuming that your subscriber incorporated YOUR feed into his own website) the feeds will of course contain a link back to your website. Once the ... 0 Comments

Google Social Search

Google Social Search launched October last year and since then has been a useful tool for me, both personally and professionally as part of the social media strategy of some clients. Nowadays, with much attention going to social media marketing it is important for SEO companies to offer related services. Google Social Search is one of the ways you can help in your client's audience analysis and targeting. With social search you can get information on the existing network (customers) of your client. You will be able to find out what really interests these people with their public content (from ... 0 Comments

Caffeine: The New Google Search

When Google unveiled its newer (better?) search engine everyone in the SEO world, or more accurately in the IT world, got all excited. Maybe it’s the caffeine in Google Caffeine or maybe its just simply because it was something from the big G. So what exactly is Google caffeine? Google caffeine is Google’s biggest and baddest change in search algorithm. The key to this change is that it is an actual change in the formula and not just minor tweaks. Parts of the entire search infrastructure was, according to Google, completely rewritten. The results? A search engine that will "push the ... 0 Comments

Sitelinks for All

Good news to everyone who doesn’t rank first in Google’s SERPs, which means good news for almost everyone. Google has announced that they have decided to expand their use of sitelinks so that website’s with multiple pages will not show a one-line sitelink even if they are not first in SERPs. For those who do not realize what sitelinks are they’re simply those links that appear at the bottom of the first result. Sitelinks are desirable because it allows users to see with just a glance at the search results the other relevant ... 0 Comments

SEO and 100 Links Per Page

It is no longer necessary to keep the links in your page to less than a hundred – at least if you’re looking purely at the SEO perspective. In his post, ‘How Many Links Per Page?’, Matt Cutts explained why the links need no longer be strictly fewer than 100 in a page. In there he said that originally Google was only able to index 100Kb per page so that having more than 100 links can lead to parts of the page not being indexed, however, these days Google can index more than that. Furthermore there is no ... 0 Comments