Why list your website in Directories? Listing your business in directories helps Google trust you are a real business. To be found in Google when people type in your sort of business and the city Eg Plumbers Brisbane (ie. Local SEO). Then Directory listings are vital. Search engines like Google scan the web to find…
Fantastic Guide to SEO for Local Business. Use this as an SEO Checklist for your Local Small Business Website/s. This infograhic shows some great page layouts to help make your site more SEO friendly. I like the sitemap part in particular. Many small business websites will just have one service page that lists all their services.…
Many people are surprised to know there are free website builders with developers who continuously contribute to new functionality. In this case your only costs are your Domain name and hosting and any donations you would like to make to the open source developer. Using WordPress To Create A Website or Blog WordPress is a…
This is a case study of a site that I managed to recover after it was hit by 2 Penguin updates. In this case 99% of the bad links were going to the home page of the website. Bad links included lots of anchor text with exact match keywords from blog posts and blog comments.…
If someone gives you content for a blog that is the same as on their website, or if you take content from someone else’s website, google will see it as duplicate copy. In fact it has to be so different that only 2 in every 4 words can be the same or it can be…
Thoughts on Pinterest as an SEO tool to drive traffic and improve page rank Right now, Pinterest is the hottest social media site on the Web. Pinterest’s exponential growth in both traffic volume and user engagement indicates that it’s more than just the flavor of the moment—it’s here to stay. Hitwise reported that Pinterest traffic…
What is SEO? What is SEO? SEO is search engine optimisation. A website without SEO can not be found by google. The only way you can get traffic to a website without SEO is to send people from a business card, radio ad, google ad, flyer, social media etc. Without SEO you will not be…