No, I’m not talking about black, white, blue, grey or any other coloured hat you might wear whilst doing SEO, but instead I want to talk about how Search Engines are really very much like fashionista’s.
To explain this a little better, let’s look at how the fashion industry works.
A designer will come-up with a ‘new [...]
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Some clarification about maintaining your rankings
Published by January 24th, 2008 in SEO. 3 CommentsYesterday I wrote a post on Maintaining Your Rankings which attracted the attention of a friend and local ‘old school’ SEO Ben Wilks.
In Ben’s post he states:
Now I am not ripping into Pete too far here, but I disagree with his advice. What scares me is the fact that nobody has pulled him up [...]
I got a call yesterday from a disgruntled gentleman who explained that about a year ago they had some extensive SEO work performed on their website. Since then they hadn’t done anything wrong, but they were no longer ranking at the top. After doing a few checks, the client was right - their site [...]
At a business networking function towards the end of last year, I met a woman who was promoting a charity cook book designed to raise money for premature babies at the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital.
The One-Armed Cookbook is a collection of easy recipes (supplied by friends, family, chefs and even a few celebrities) specifically [...]
Recently Wiep Knol compiled a great document about Link Value Factors. Basically the document contains the views of many well respected SEOs on the topic of link building - and more specifically which factors are most and least important.
This is yet another great SEO resource, but when reading through it, I couldn’t help but [...]
SEO is not for everyone… Wait a minute - YES IT IS
Published by January 2nd, 2008 in SEO. 3 CommentsI read a lot of blogs and at times I get behind on my readings. To keep on top of things, I’ll often skim through posts without really reading them properly, and later I go back through the posts that seemed pretty good when I have more time.
In my recent skimming I noticed a [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about SEOing a site on a limited budget and one of the points I made was that the moment a price is mentioned prospective clients seem to get scared away.
Landon found this post thanks to our recent review on ProBlogger and made the suggestion:
It would be [...]
Every month I receive a few enquiries from small businesses who don’t really understand what SEO is, but they know it’s important and want to find-out more… until a price is mentioned and then they run for the hills.
This isn’t because our SEO prices are outlandish - the client simply doesn’t understand how keyword research, [...]
Over the past few posts I’ve discussed some more creative ways to build and bait links, so I thought it was time to go back and cover a basic, yet essential topic - On-Site SEO.
Before I go too much further, I should point-out that there are 200+ factors to be considered when doing a full [...]
What rank checking and nose picking have in common…
Published by November 22nd, 2007 in Keywords and SEO. 3 CommentsWhat does picking your nose have to do with regularly checking where you rank for your selected keywords?
Both are bad habits but for some reason a lot of people partake in both activities - and to make matters worse, they do it on a daily basis.
Why shouldn’t you check rankings?
Don’t get me wrong - it’s [...]
