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Advanced use of top ten style SEO audit reports

Top ten SEO audit reports are great as they give a technical check list as to how a target page compares to the top ten pages for any given phrase. The methodology has solid merit as it states that no one outside of ‘Google’ (Or other search engine you are targeting) can know the ranking […]

The role of H tags in HTML5 documents and their practical application

With over 861,000,000 websites on the internet (as of January 2014) it’s easy to see that not all these websites use HTML5, it’s also easy to see how search engines will take this into consideration when looking at ranking. More over search engines like Google will often weight websites with great content over their technical […]

Why design and SEO are not natural bed fellows

A website which looks great, converts well and ranks well on Google is the holy grail of anyone trying to promote themselves on-line, but why is this harder than it looks? Simply put all three disciplines have different priorities which means at best the result will be a fudge of all three, or to put […]

The top ten method for ranking on the first page on a search engine

With what seems like every other article on the web telling you how to rank well on a search engine and algorithms changing daily, are there any tried and trusted methods that just works? What is the top ten method? Simply put no one outside of Google (or any other search engine) knows the technical […]

How to start with SEO

When people first become interested in SEO they often run about like headless chickens trying to figure out how to better their websites ranking. The following is a very basic overview on how to start to achieving success with search engines like Google. Understand your audience. As daft as it sounds, you would be amazed […]

Social Media the Stake in SEO’s Heart

Watch out, the ‘Social Media Experts’ have arrived! This new professional, meant to be the Van Helsing to SEO, turning each found search engine optimisation campaign to dust. Like a vampire, the arcane art of SEO refuses to die, but is Social Media wielding the right stake to bring about its demise? A huge marketing […]

Is social media for business hype over substance?

Since its inception as a way to hook up to college girls, Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook has literally become the world’s most popular website. Often touted as the place to be to promote your business, but does this crown really hold up to the evidence? Build and they will come Since marketers have seen the internet […]

Number of visitors to the site

Overview It may sound a little like the quip about which came first the egg or chicken, but there is some evidence to suggest search engines like Google may look at visitor number when determining how to rank a site. This controversial view has to some extent been confirmed by Google in a statement where […]

Keyword use in bold body text

Overview Search engines like Google use the text visible on the screen as one of the factors used to determine how important a page is to a certain search phrase. Bold body text as expected plays a role in this ranking. In short if a section of text is tagged as bold or strong, search […]