Dear Moz, Anything Can Violate Google’s Quality Guidelines
Before I get started, I want to make it clear that I am an avid fan of Rand Fishkin and the Moz community; their ethical approach to SEO and the … Read more →
Social Media Strategy: Why You Need One (And How To Write It)
Whether you’re a huge conglomerate or an indie blogger like me, you can benefit 1000%* (*not a verified statistic!) from having a well-written social media strategy. If you have a … Read more →
I’m Not Hitler! When Google Images Gets It Very Wrong
A few days ago I started an experiment to test the SEO benefit of unique images. Amongst other things, I analysed the top-ranking images on Google.com and noticed that, along with … Read more →
Search Engine News/Watch/Land/Journal – What The Hell Is The Difference?
A Simple Guide To The Best SEO News Sources On The Web I come across many blogs and news sites when trying to keep afloat in the Google SEO era, but … Read more →
Building A Facebook Following From Scratch
The third social networking challenge in my trilogy (twitter and google+ are already underway) is facebook. I recently spent some time learning about facebook advertising and it’s pretty hard to … Read more →
Google Plus Authorship: What’s The Point?
The second social networking task on my list after starting to grow a Twitter following was to add Google+ authorship to this site. These days, you can’t Google anything without seeing … Read more →
Experiment: Do Unique Images Help SEO? (Results)
When I finally decided to get this site up and running properly, I made a mental note to add as many unique images as possible, for 2 3 reasons: 1. I’m fed … Read more →
How Vacation.Rentals is ranking for “Vacation Rentals” after 6 weeks
A few weeks ago I wrote about the domain purchase of Vacation.Rentals for $500,300, and why I thought the new owner’s SEO plan, to rank the site for the exact … Read more →
Are you making the same Conversion Optimisation mistakes as Hillary Clinton?
Disclaimer: I’m not in any way affiliated with any political campaigns in the US (or UK for that matter). I am neither commending nor criticising either candidate, simply commentating on … Read more →
No More Google! 3 Reasons Why I’m Switching to DuckDuckGo
A quiet Friday morning….drinking coffee, reading the news, nothing unusual here. I remember that I need to buy socks. Good quality socks, the kind that don’t hole easily. I Google … Read more →
Page Rank Explained
You can’t dip your toe into the seo waters without coming across the term “Page Rank” or PR. But what is it and how can we put it work for … Read more →
The Dastardly “favicon.ico not found” Error
There have been two burning questions among developers recently: “What is that favicon.ico not found error that is filling my Error_log?” and “How do I get a custom icon next … Read more →