Hidden Road Blocks Ever wondered why your website doesn't seem to be attracting any visits or as many as you expect? You might be amazed at how many hidden pitfalls could be lurking in your website's code that could put the kibosh on your plans to dominate the world. This is a post for small and medium sized businesses to highlight some of the risks of not having an SEO audit carried out on … [Read more...]
Google Penguin Update? Get Real!
Google's Penguin Update If you haven't heard of Google's Penguin Update, you must have either been stuck in a crevasse for weeks or have no connections with the SEO industry. Before you waddle back to your igloo, skim what follows to see if anything ruffles your feathers, piques your interest or even pricks your conscience! The Penguin update has had business owners and the SEO industry in a … [Read more...]
Eliminate Duplicate Content to Profit From Thin Air
Duplicate Content Case Study In this article, I'll explain how to make profit from thin air by eliminating duplicate content from your website. No, this is not some shady 'get-rich-quick scheme' full of hollow promises. This is a real example of how the identification, diagnosis and elimination of duplicate content became the biggest single contributory factor in achieving an increase of 145% in … [Read more...]
Plagiarism Checks – Check This
Before I start, the image on the left of a copyright symbol is, itself, subject to copyright rules. Yup, I paid a couple of quid to use it here. The other day I stumbled across an example of another SEO service provider that had copied my content and published it on their website as though it were their own. They shall remain nameless. However, anybody who knows anything about SEO can find out … [Read more...]
Longest Meta Keywords Tag
Click On This Image Click on this image, which I've edited to do my best to anonymise it, to see the big picture of the longest meta keywords tag I have seen to date. It is 2,843 characters long. No, newbies, I did NOT count them - thanks to Microsoft Excel's @Len function. Yes, two thousand, eight hundred and forty-three characters long. That's nearly 4 times as long as the 735 characters I … [Read more...]