Search Engine Optimisation

There is a lot of rubbish written about Search Engine Optimisation - usually by people trying to sell you some kind of secret guide.

Fortunately Google has always been much more open about what they look for in a website than may "SEO Experts" want you to believe and all you really need to know is out there are available. This part of the blog rounds up a few tips and concentrates on genuine practical tips that will help you succeed in the long term.

But before that, if you are new to SEO techniques, the first place to go is Google.

Automated Link Building Fail?

July 21, 2010 Search Engine Optimisation
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A new plugin provides all the easy free back links you’ll ever need. Here’s why you might want to think twice before installing.

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More Search Engine Transparency: Bing Spam Control

February 22, 2010 Search Engine Optimisation

I have talked a number of times about the information that search engines do share with us and have tried to bust the myth that Google, Bing, etc are entirely secretive. Sure there is some stuff they don’t give away to ensure that people can’t use the knowledge to game the system, and I imagine [...]

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Google's Search Engine Optimisation Starter Guide

January 29, 2010 Search Engine Optimisation

Following on from my previous post on trying to get across how SEO techniques are no secret and trying to share the idea that Google offer great resources to help beginners learn what they need to know, I wanted to share this great PDF from google. This document puts together pretty much all any amateur [...]

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Want to learn more about SEO?

January 27, 2010 Search Engine Optimisation

It has been a long term annoyance of mine – this notion that optimising your site for the search engines is somehow a secret that only experts with years of industry experience can do. Companies charge 1000s for consultancy on SEO best practices so it must be some difficult hard to understand skill? No. It’s [...]

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10 Awesome Google Remixes

November 29, 2009 Search Engine Optimisation

I mentioned a couple in the previous post and it inspired me to check out the other Google Alternatives out there. Just to be clear, these are all sites based firmly on the Google search engine, they are just alternative front ends put up by other people. Google allows this through its “custom search” functionality, [...]

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A New Decluttered Search Engine

November 27, 2009 Search Engine Optimisation

If, like me, you are getting fed up of the increasing complexities of search engines, you might want to bookmark the following site for future searching… justasearchbox.com I love a site that does what it says on the tin, just a search box, no more and no less. This perhaps the opposite of the other [...]

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