Posts Tagged ‘search engine optimisation’

Warning – your traffic may drop from Google

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Are you offering facts and figures which people regularly search on? Does it drive traffic to your site?
Let’s give an example: what is the height of St Paul’s cathedral?

As you can see, the information the searcher requires is (partially) in the search engine listing. However, the likelihood is that this is enough to pique the [...]

Your visitors still can’t search

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

The 10 UK search terms for the 4 weeks since Oct 19th 2009 show that UK searchers still don’t comprehend how a browser works.
The top 10 search terms include Facebook, Bebo, Youtube, Ebay, Argos – all major brands with basic TLDs eg argos.co.uk, facebook.com and so on. What this implies is that users are not [...]

SEO question generator tool

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

We all know that people like to use the search engines to get answers to questions, but when promoting our sites, creating content and so on, how do we know what questions they might be asking in their search queries?
Well, look no further than the extremely useful Wordtracker question generator tool
Let’s try some examples:
Internet marketing [...]

SEO IQ Test – how good are you at SEO?

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Time to find the experts…..try this SEO IQ quiz and see just how good you are at search engine optimisation.
Having tried it, it is a little like the Impossible Quiz though! There are so many double negatives make sure you have a clear head before starting.
Also, some of the questions are unclear, particularly those which [...]

Top SEOs ranking for August announced

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

The latest top 30 rankings from TopSEOS for August 2009 has been released.
Two UK companies, WebLinx Ltd and High Position Ltd continue to feature in the international list, which is good news for our search industry. The UK top SEO rankings show little change at the top; however there are three new entrants in the [...]

Google Rich Snippets

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Google’s research team have discovered that when additional data is shown with the research results, users are more likely to click through to a website. So, for instance, if in a news story about a vending machine for pizzas,
additional information is added to the search results about the value of the vending machine industry [...]