Smart-Traffic.co.uk – A Mysterious Disappearing Act

Smart-Traffic.co.uk Play Hide and Seek [Since I first published this post, I received a reply from Stuart Pollington at Smart-Traffic.co.uk explaining how he believes this anomaly arose. Since my post allowed for the possibility of inferring that a penalty may have been applied by Google, I feel it would be unfair to do anything other [...]

Business Blogging for SEO – Google Search Results

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Further Thoughts on Business Blogging This is a follow up post to describe some of the effects, from an SEO point of view, of my last post “Business Blogging Services and SEO – Essential Bedfellows”. It’s all very well talking about the benefits or SEO implications of blogging but, as always, the proof of the [...]

Business Blogging Services and SEO – Essential Bedfellows

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Are you blogging yet? Does your business have a blog? If not, are you beginning to feel it should? Do your competitors have blogs? Blogging has become a mainstream marketing activity for many businesses. Whilst more and more businesses are hearing about the value and increasing importance of blogging, many businesses are still wrestling with [...]

Meta Description Tags – Your Free Ad Copy

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Meta description tags – the why, where and what. If you’re an SEO specialist, you’ll want to skip this post. This is aimed at small business owners, marketing managers and the plethora of web designers that offer SEO friendly websites – but … er … don’t. The meta description tag is another very simple yet [...]

Google Algorithm Change Announced by Matt Cutts

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It is always good to read about progress that Google makes in the fight against spam so I was pleased to read a recent post from Matt Cutts announcing that Google is evaluating multiple changes to its search ranking algorithm to combat spam and, specifically one particular change, to combat the problem of publishers having [...]

Flash Home Pages Can Thwart SEO

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Does Your Site Have An All Flash Home Page? Are you a lover of Flash programming? Is your home page dedicated entirely to a Flash movie? If so, did you know that this presents problems to search engines since they cannot read the images? Whilst it is true that search engines have improved their interpretation [...]

Home Page Title Tag Can Be a Dead Giveaway

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Does Your Home Page Title Tag Indicate an Absence of SEO? Nearly every business owner or marketing manager I speak to relates stories of being repeatedly contacted by SEO companies promising to get them to the top of Google. These companies are usually sending out thousands of emails without making any attempt to assess whether [...]

Google Place Search – a Leg Up For SME?

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At the beginning of November, Google rolled out some major changes to some categories of its search results which may have a profound effect on both large and small businesses. The changes affect the results for searches that are considered, for one reason or another, by Google to be local in nature. This may be [...]

Meta Keywords Tags Are Irrelevant – The Final Word

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Most people in the SEO world have known for a long time that Google does not factor the contents of meta keywords tags into their search ranking algorithm. This fact has been officially announced by Google’s Matt Cutts. In this YouTube video, Matt also talks about the potential usefulness of meta description tags which I’ll [...]

Keyword Domain Names or Brand Domain Names?

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Which domain name to choose for your website is a complex decision so how do you make it and what factors are there to consider? One of the biggest decisions is whether to go for a keyword-rich domain name or brand domain name. Well, there are advantages to both so inevitably there are trade-offs to [...]