You know these emails well. They're from people with sometimes ludicrous sounding names, purporting to be from a certain SEO company and they've graciously analysed your website and found some major problems and thought to alert you. They're light on details, citing issues that are generic in...
Handy Bits To Help You With Your Technical SEO Can't remember if a canonical link is self closing, or how to add a 301 redirect? Here's a quick cheat sheet to help you out. HTML noindex: <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> nofollow: <meta name="robots" content="nofollow" /> Note: They work together too: <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> Canonical: <link...
On site is the basis of your SEO success. You can go a long way without links, but without proper onsite your site is doomed to languish at the bottom of page two. The following are three common problems we see everyday with on site...
An Evening With Dejan ‐ 27th June In case you haven't heard Dejan is hosting an evening of SEO with talks on SEO News, the latest Algorithm issues, Website Analysis (which I'll be explaining more about in a moment), Trouble shooting and a Live Q&A. You'll have the...
We've all made mistakes with our SEO, but most are hopefully learnt from and fixed before anyone else notices. Here are 7 common SEO mistake that can damage your sites ranking and leave you feeling stupid. Keyword Stuffing Keyword stuffing is pointless, looks unprofessional and make you look stupid....
Social Media Marketing can be a powerful tool for driving traffic to your site, building brand awareness and long term customer relationships, but failure to properly identify the characteristics of your market and develop a plan to engage with users will only lead to wasted...
With each algorithmic change that goes by there seems to be increased emphasis placed on producing great content and obtaining links through 'white-hat' means. Creating great content is something that many in the SEO industry seem to talk about all the time, but what is great content...
Thanks Martin Evans for the question on the 123SEO Google Plus Page. "Since the penguin and panda updates, what form of backlink provides the most quality? blogs? articles? press releases?" In a post penguin world there has been lots of speculation about what forms of linking are effective. We put the...
For most businesses the whole point of having a website is to make money. This can be achieved through direct sales, lead generation or feet through the door. Yet many are simply throwing their money away by not having strong call to action. What Is A...
For small businesses online, building quality links can be a daunting challenge. Not only do people seem to not want to link to you, but getting the wrong kind of links can see your site punished by Google with a penalty that'll leave you so...