Published: April 7th, 2009
It seems quite while back now but back in August I wrote a post on why articles are great for search engine optimisation. I feel like this topic area is worth coming back to. In a nutshell I outlined that the reasons why articles are good is that you can get a one way link back to your site, people share articles meaning you can potentially continue to generate back-links month after month, it is low cost, and on top of it all Google likes good content.
Published: March 19th, 2009
I’ll try and keep this short and sweet. The following are some tips that can help your blog rank well in the search engines and generally help drive traffic. I am going to start at the beginning and so if you already have a blog then you can skip a few lines.
Published: March 18th, 2009
There are plenty of sites that have these links but thought it would be a good idea to post here. This is pinging your sitemap to the search engines. You have gone through the whole kafuffle (first time I have ever wrote kafuffle in my life) of creating a sitemap so it’s a shame not to tell the search engines about it. The following therefore are links that allow you to ping your sitemap to Google, Yahoo!, MSN and even Ask:
Published: March 16th, 2009
Search engine optimisation can only get your so far. Of course traffic to your site is one of the most important things in internet marketing however it is not the only important thing. You can have the best rankings in the world, however without a good website these rankings can mean very little. At this point it is important to highlight the fact that by a good website I am not talking about pretty images and colours (although this still helps), by good a website I am talking about clear internal linking structures, credibility, trustworthiness, and providing the right content/information to a user.
Published: March 10th, 2009
If you are experienced in SEO then this may seem obvious. Even if you are not experienced in SEO then this still may seem obvious. However it seems like a good point to reiterate and this is keeping links pages to a minimum simple and to a minimum of 100 links. I am echoing the sentiments from Matt Cuts in regards to thins and really do feel that this is important when linking both through reciprocal and directory submissions.