Top Seven Tips to Get Your Local Listing above Your Competitors

Did you know that in 2008, 82% of local searches online resulted in a phone call, site view, in store visit or immediate purchase? This has no doubt increased along with the popularity of local listings and highlights the need for your local listing to be in that prime position – above your main competitors. Read More

Five Google Webmaster Tweaks to Optimize Your Rankings

With the ever expanding feature set of Google’s Webmaster Tools, it’s easy to miss some of the more essential settings and tools that can help you achieve top rankings.

In this post, I’ll cover 5 tips which will give your site the best chance of ranking well. Read More

The Essential List of Free Content Related SEO Tools

Content is King in SEO – we all know its true, but many people still fall into the trap of focusing on everything else – except their content!

It’s easy to get distracted with your offsite SEO strategies and forget the fundamental rule of SEO – create valuable relevant unique content. So to help you research, create and analyze your content, I’ve created this list of essential free content SEO tools. Read More

Top five SEO WordPress Plugins for 2011

I have been chatting to a bunch of people recently who are setting up websites in Word Press and want to know which plug-ins I use. So to save me having to list them out every time someone asks, here’s a post that lists my Top 5 Plug-ins for SEO. Of course there’s plenty more out there, but these are the ones that fall into my “Must Have” SEO plug-in list. Read More

7 Hot SEO Tips For The Holiday Season

For you to be leveraging Google for free holiday season search traffic, you probably should have already started your SEO campaign. But if you haven’t, don’t despair –Here are 7 hot tips to help you get your Google ranking strategy on track quickly. Read More

Google Launches URL Shortener with SEO Impact

Google’s new URL shortening service, Goo.gl has just been launched to the public. Goo.gl comes with its own site (http://goo.gl) and some cool analytics.
http://goo.gl/1MC9 – They are especially helpful in applications that have character restrictions, like Twitter and its 140 character limit.
googl has been incorporated into many Google products including News, Blogger, Maps, Picasa Web Albums, and Moderator. However, Google claims not to have overloaded it with too many features as they want goo.gl to be the most stable, most secure, and fastest URL shortener available on the web. Read More

Essential List of Free Content Related SEO Tools

Content is King in SEO – we all know its true, but many people still fall into the trap of focusing on everything else – except their content! It’s easy to get distracted with your offsite SEO strategies and forget the fundamental rule of SEO – create valuable relevant unique content. So to help you research, create and analyse your content, I’ve created this list of essential free content SEO tools. Read More

Creating Effective and Optimized Website Navigation

Following on from my posts about website architecture and PageRank leakage, today I’ve decided to cover another important element of your site’s structure – Navigation.

There are two main considerations when building your sites navigation-

First and foremost should be users. Your site’s navigation needs to help users find different content on your website quickly and easily. Read More

The Definitive Guide to Robots.txt for SEO

A robots.txt file provides restrictions to search engine robots (known as “bots”) that crawl the web. Robots are used to find content to index in the search engine’s database.

Surprisingly, many website owners forget to maintain, let alone create a robots.txt file for their websites, so here’s a guide on what a robots.txt file is and how best to use it for SEO purposes. Read More

Five tips for greater press release exposure

Press releases are a simple way of getting the latest news from your company out to the masses. Traditionally, you wrote a press release and sent it to the media contact to consider putting your news in their newspaper or magazine. However, the internet has now become the fastest and easiest way to get your news in front of more people’s eyes.

Just like your website, you need to optimize your press release to give it the best exposure in the search engines. Read More