SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has been a passion of mine for over 20 years. I was a founding owner of one the Uk’s original SEO companies, Receptional, which I eventually sold through to a management buyout team.
These are some of my posts over the years on SEO.
How Google crawls and retrieves data from the web. Some common SEO issues that arise. From Googler’s mouth.
It’s Christmas and as this blog has zero adverts and pretty much no money making schemes, I hope it’s OK to plug the services of my own consultancy. We grew a fair bit in 2011 and now have about 20 people at the SEO Consultancy that I founded back in Read more…
Yahoo Site Explorer is going offline. Here is a list of the main Yahoo site explorer alternatives. There are a few to choose from with different strengths and weaknesses.
It used to be absolute chalk and cheese! But now many of the factors affecting small businesses need the skillset of an Enterprise SEO company. That’s because even the smallest of companies are now using a CMS to build and manage their site. I don’t know the last time I Read more…
On Friday I was in Hannover, where SEMSEO asked me to talk about Search Technology Tools – and in particular of course, my favourite tool, Majestic Site Explorer. I didn’t talk much about my own SEO tools page, but did look at the problems involved when Searh technology has to Read more…
This page looks at the winners and losers of the Farmer/Panda update. It has created several subsets of Google’s index, so you can search for a phrase and compare the results side by side. Below are custom search engines for more known winners/Losers Loading Loading It has been suggested that Read more…
One of the most frequently asked questions from prosepctive clients is pretty much impossible to answer. “How many links do I need”? It’s true… I can’t tell you. But I do at least have a methodology for staring to give an answer to this question – with the help of our newest recruit, James Hare.