Why Page Rank Means Nothing

February 19, 2009

OK maybe the title is baiting slightly but I am here to tell you today that Google PageRank is not the determining factor as to you ranking for targeted keywords. PageRank does play a role but I personally feel it holds less weight than another factor which is keyword theme, or as I like to [...]

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SEO – Clearly Defining Black-Hat Techniques

February 17, 2009

As an SEO consultant there is nothing strange in speaking to a potential client who has never heard of black hat seo. This is slightly worrying as many unsuspecting online business owners may fall into the black-hat trap and find their sites banned. Black hat SEO is at it’s base, various spamming techniques used to [...]

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Personalised Search – Is Anybody Else Growing Tired?

February 14, 2009

For the past month personalised search has been the topic on every SEO blog and forum. SEO’s are not relishing the idea of having their sites drop down the rankings because it does not fit a searcher profile?? For those of you not familiar with personalised search it is Google’s new ‘SearchWiki‘ which allows users [...]

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Search Engine Optimisation Techniques – Press Releases

February 13, 2009

In the world of SEO a lot of time is spent discussing ways to market your content, build links and drive qualified traffic to your website. There are a lot of techniques you can use as part of the search engine optimisation process, but one technique is known and not spoken about very much. I [...]

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SEO Consultant Leeds

February 3, 2009

“SEO consultant leeds” are you wondering why I am targeting this keyword. If you are a regular reader you will remember my post a couple of days ago about the effectiveness of outbound links. Well this is the phrase I am going to target. “Seo consultant leeds” is a pretty low competition keyword however in [...]

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Using SEO on Heavy Graphic Sites

February 2, 2009

One of the biggest problems an SEO or Search Marketing consultant can come across is a site which has overly used graphics to make the content more visually appealing. It is problem that can seriously effect your search engine optimisation results and today I really want to discuss working around this common problem. Right, remembering [...]

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How To Use Article Marketing For SEO Purposes

January 28, 2009

As an SEO consultant I do a lot of reading and one of the things I happened to stumble upon recently was a comment that article marketing is a waste of time. I have a big problem with this comment for 2 reasons. – It is completely false – The person who made the comment [...]

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