SEO Blog Posts

Creative Link Building for Small Businesses

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

E-Commerce, Link Building

Small businesses have a lot to offer and with a bit of creativity, you can turn some traditional methods of link building into a winning campaign. Here are a few ideas to help small businesses use those methods to build links to their sites. (more…)

The Top 11 SEO Plugins for WordPress

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Link Building, SEO, Word Press

WordPress solves a lot of typical SEO issues straight out of the box; however, with a bit of tweaking and fine tuning, you can drastically improve the performance of your blog in the search results.

There are an overwhelming number of SEO-related WordPress plugins, from the “all in one” solution to a simple sitemap generator. For the purpose of this post, I’ve picked out some of my tried and tested favourites. (more…)

White Hat Link Building: Using Unique Selling Points to Gain Natural Links

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Link Building, SEO

This year has supposedly been Google’s year for a war on spam. In 2011, it has become ever more important for SEO firms to focus their efforts on attracting links as part of their campaigns, not automating or bulk buying them.

Attracting links isn’t always about big budget link bait ideas; it can be as simple as exploiting what’s right in front of you and close to hand. (more…)

SEO for Beginners: Part Two

Monday, October 24th, 2011

Link Building, SEO

Welcome to SEO for Beginners: Part Two! In my last post, I wrote defined SEO and highlighted a few key factors which can help improve the overall architecture of a website. In case you missed it, you can read it here.

Intro

I’m sure you have heard the phrase ‘Content is King’. Well this is becoming more and more the important as the search landscape changes. Content can mean a number of things from product descriptions to blog posts and general page information, but how should you go about making sure your content is sufficient? (more…)

The Manchester Derby – Trash Tevez and Build Links (or not)

Friday, October 21st, 2011

Featured, Online PR, SEO

Yesterday Betfair announced a great PR stunt, just in time for this weekend’s Manchester Derby.

They are placing a giant ‘Recycling Tevez’ skip (that is half red half blue) outside Old Trafford before Sunday’s game, and asking angry fans of both City and United to get rid of their Tevez shirts. (more…)