Search engine giant Google will be making changes to its Merchant Centre in 2013. The alterations will impact on the UK market and is likely to mean that online business owners have to adjust their sales strategy and their budget […]
One of the questions I ask myself when doing an SEO website audit is whether the site is structured correctly. One of the things this includes is looking at whether (say) a blog, a forum or any other resource belongs […]
In my previous article we began exploring the world of SEO for Arts and Craft websites. In that post we looked at keyphrases and how to use keyphrases for seo. We learned that generality has it’s place but specificity even more […]
Many arts and craft websites suffer from the same problem. Generality. Each website wants to be the top search result on Google for “art” or “paintings” or something like that. Due to that demand it is almost impossible to do so. […]
It’s been little under a month since I last wrote about the Google Penguin Update, and although many of the shouty people have gone off there are still a few white hat SEO’s asking “how do i recover from penguin […]
Something I’ve banged on about since I first started working with SEO is that Pay Per Click (PPC) is less effective than SEO in giving real ROI. PPC, are those “sponsored links” you see on Google, Bing, Yahoo, Lycos and […]
< p style=”text-align: left;”>Ever wondered when your SEO says “that’s black hat” or something like that what they meant? < p style=”text-align: left;”>The seo infographic below explains in some detail just a few known Black Hat techniques. Be warned that […]
Valentines day has been and gone, its about 10 months away now but in SEO predicting what users do on a website, how they behave and further more the demographics there of can make the difference between a website making […]
When I wrote about , I looked at Pinterest from the view point of someone wondering why they should use Pinterest for marketing at all.
Today I want to take another view point, that is of someone who is already using Pinterest but wants to optimise Pinterest for both click through’s (to their own website) and optimise for search in general.
Pinterest is an addictive tool, it pulls you in by showing your pretty things and lets you share them with your friends. It lets you and work you’ve found and you feel good when someone clicks like or re-pins your post … because you feel good you go back and do some more Pinteresting things.
Pinterest is an amazing utility tool for any business, but it is a fantastic small business SEO tool. Whack a product on that looks amazing, add a keyword loved description and a price tag and with a click or two you’ve not only a buyer but someone who has shared your item with their friends and possibly even more buyers! But that description, that price, that link are all key to the small business SEO and it’s where the bigger companies will miss out – they may upload every product but they won’t upload a great description showing a passion and they probably won’t include the price and they probably won’t be shared … boo hoo for them… lets get to work, lets Optimise Your Pinterest Product Posts.
These are my top tips for optimising your pinterest for search. If you have any tips leave a comment below.
Also leave a comment below telling us why you use Pinterest & tell us your username on pinterest so we can follow you 
It’s hard to believe that Stumble Upon one of the first real social bookmarking sites is still so popular. But statistics show that with a Facebook almost 400X that of Facebook and Twitter, Stubmle Upon is here to stay!
Most people thought that Facebook links have longevity, they don’t – they have a few hours of virility but little in terms of life. Where as Stumble actually has a longevity of not just hours but days and weeks (months in some cases). From this study it looks like maybe we should all be using Stumble Upon a little more!
Back in 2005 social media was the new buzzword, MySpace was doing the rounds and so was Bebo, each taking on the world and sharing things with friends. There was whispers about this new network called !
Fast forward a few years and MySpace and Bebo suffered a huge downfall following the rise of Facebook, with all its wonderful apps and ability to seemlessly connect you without too much effort. Basically they won because the concentration was not on your wall or your profile but on the aggregation of feeds which you wanted to see – allowing you to engage and see the world. Well that’s the simplified version, that plus Facebook knows how to use the data it collects and does it amazingly well… Google say they know what you want before you do, if thats the case Facebook knows what you want, need and puts it in front of you before you’ve even thought about wanting it.
If you are interested in the new rise of MySpace as a music based service, check out my article on .
So with the meteoric growth of social media like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ the question is why do people share so much about themselves? Why do businesses sink so much time and effort into social media? plus many other questions.
To answer this I was about to write a nice long article about Why Social Media is NOT a Waste of Time, but instead I stumbled across this lovely infographic which tells the story. This infographic is based on Nielsen research results in america only, but it applies across the world especially in the UK where the statistics shown are broadly similar.
One of my favourite tools for doing basic SEO testing of a website is Hubspot Website Marketing Grader, they also have some other neat tools. So today reading their marketing blog I was excited to come across what is possibly the worlds longest infographic about the history of marketing. A subject I intent to delve into in the next month or two with posts including about how Gutenberg invented moveable type which changed the world.
As you will see simple things allowed marketing to evolve, you will begin to understand marketing is a journey and not a destination and that the goal posts will and do move often – don’t be scared.
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I love Pandas, and a recent visit to @edinburghzoo did nothing but make me love them even more! And well erm, unlike most SEO’s I love the Panda Updates from Google!
No seriously its removed so much crap from the web and ranking factors that actually life feels a little freeier, its like a things are simpler. There is less ability for black hats to work their so called magic with craptastic articles posted across the web.
Lets just put it this way, Google Panda Updates are cute!
With thanks to Single Grain for use of this infographic.
If you are struggling with Google Panda Updates killing you SEO efforts, book your seo consultancy slot today.
Selling online is not easy normally, and even less so in this economic down turn. But with the use of 10 simple seo secrets to online selling you can not just improve your online sales by a few percent but by a huge amount.
The pace of innovation over the past decade or so has been amazing. Do you recall 1999? Sure you do, when Google didn’t rule the world and Lycos or Altavista was the search engine of choice? Think of the mobile phone you had, did you even have one? If you did no doubt it was just about able to take a call every few hours without the battery dieing or without signal dropping. Today we live in a world of slim phones, that are (almost) always connected to the network, we can text, speak, take video calls, and (importantly for this post) access the internet.
In the past few years alone the Mobile web has grown so much that for many sites the amount of traffic they receive from mobile is over 10% (for seoandy this is about 15%). This growth looks set to continue as tablet computers (finally) take off and become common place.
With this in mind, you will no doubt understand why SEO for the Mobile Web is important. So lets take a look at 5 steps to getting started with Mobile SEO. There are many many ways to invest in your future on a mobile platform, below are my tips to give you a solid grounding in Mobile SEO – these are the basics, you should build on them.