seo

Study: Does Kontera affect your Google Search Engine Rankings?

January 6, 2012

  It’s no secret that it’s been a pretty stressful year for website publishers. When Google released their Panda update back in March, many sites lost as much as half of their organic traffic overnight, without any idea what they were doing wrong. In the last 9 months we’ve learned a lot about post Panda SEO, but one area that continues to be misunderstood is the issue of page speed, specifically as it relates to .....

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Contextual Advertising Can Help Your SEO

October 17, 2011

SEO outperformed contextual advertising, Barry Smith previously wrote on receptional.com. So how then can contextual advertising improve my SEO? Contextual advertising can boost the relevance of your site in the SERPS We have all known for some time that search engines, Google in particular, like to send traffic to relevant, “popular” pages. When I’m talking about popular I’m including the whole Facebook “Like,” Google Plus thing. Just by seeing the ads for a company on .....

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SEO and Affiliate Marketing Contest: SEO Olympics

February 16, 2011

Earn an average commission of $240 (8% commissions on average sales of $3000) and compete to win $15,000 – already increased to $15,404.72 and climbing! So I’m sure you’ve heard of America’s Got Talent, or maybe American Idol rings a bell? But have you heard of The World’s SEO Idol Competition? You probably haven’t, but in these economic times you should know exactly what this contest is all about because it could be the easiest .....

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SEO PR Training

February 8, 2011

There is a strong link between SEO and PR. Google loves in which are in context is great website and doing PR the right way can be a great way of getting links back for your site. My friend Claire has just launched a new venture called SEO PR Training with Nichola Stott, both these lady’s have a great reputation in London for delivering high quality work. The company ‘does what it says on the can’, offering tailored SEO training to PR people .....

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How Do YOU Like the NEW Google Instant?

September 9, 2010

If you are logged into a Google account you may have noticed a change to Google search that they call Google Instant. If you haven’t seen it yet, this short video shows how it works: There will be a lot of Buzz and even more speculation on how Google Instant will affect SEO. The first question, though, is how do users like it? Since it is brand new and we know that many have opinions .....

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Getting started in SEO

April 27, 2010

SEO stands for search engine optimization and is the process of increasing traffic to your site.  SEO can be divided into two main areas:  On page optimization  – amending the structure of the code on the site and including keywords in the code and  copy Off page optimization – link building – driving traffic to the site through networking, blogs and press releases. Where to begin  SEO should be the first thing you think about .....

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Keyword Tool UK using Google Keyword Tool UK

March 3, 2010

Keyword Tool UK using Google Keyword Tool UK If you are going to successfully develop your content strategy researching the right terms is critical. There are different ways to do this task. I have been using the Google Keyword Tool for some time one element that I had not realised until now was that it was not showing me all the terms which were available. Using Google suggestion when searching I was then able to .....

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Information Architecture: The Foundation of any Website

January 17, 2010

Probably one of the most widely neglected aspects of Search Engine Optimization is Information Architecture. At this point, most SEO’s agree that a website’s URL naming structure, as well as the keywords used in the URL structure have a significant impact on search rankings. Think about it this way, a website’s URL structure is merely a set of folders or categories used to create a hierarchy of information. Thus, when you begin to establish your .....

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