SEO Blog Number 9

Google's Semantic Search will probably be the biggest shake up of how we find things on the net that we have seen for years.

It will fundamentally change the SEO landscape and for the most part we are actually pretty blind as it takes place, and it has already started ...

Many of my clients, on first contact, are interested in what we can do for them when it comes to link building.

That's not surprising, there is no end of content around the web about how important links are and most people receive regular spamy type emails offering '50 links for ...

It's obviously a question I am asked almost daily. The other one is 'Can you put my website in the top 3 of Google?'

I understand why it is such a rampant enquiry – there are no end of renegade SEO companies that promise such results.

So is it possible? Yes ...

The idea of Google Panda was to try and remove poor quality sites that were clogging up the search engine results pages (SERPs). The plan was to kill off duplicate content or content that was no more than a bunch of links.

But why have so many innocent people seemingly been ...

Black Hat is Search Engine Optimisation work that crawlers like Google, Yahoo and Bing would ban your website for if they realised what you were up to.

And they most certainly are getting better at this. Many sites that relied on copied content (content farms) or were nothing more than directories ...

VevoCart is the asp.net offering for an online shopping cart and it was recently bought to my attention by a client.

In terms of usability I have never applied it to a website because it is so poorly reviewed. You can read some stories of woe here: http://www.shopping-cart-reviews.com/carts/VevoCart.aspx.

But the all ...

"Start blogging and it will help your SEO" are the words I so often see on forums or hear in conversations but many people try it out and never find the promised land of high rankings. So do blogs really help?

In essence blogs can be effective but only when carried ...

There are plenty of SEO companies pushing the link wheel solution at the moment. Have you lost your position in the search results because you were using link farms? No problem, use link wheels instead because Google sees these as natural.

Is it that simple?

Not really. Link wheels are a ...

Being a growth industry, SEO is full of cowboys who see optimising websites as ideal 'get rich quick' fodder even if they don't actually produce results for the client.

I've sometimes followed these people through the system and it goes a bit like this:

1) Person X talks a website owner ...

I do a huge amount of work in forums for my clients because I see it as an important part of search engine optimisation.

Not so much for link building, although it can have a profound affect when carried out correctly as I discuss in the article Forum Link Building ...

Before I start, an explanation.

Spinning articles means taking one piece of text and running it through computer software so it looks like a different piece of text but still on the same theme. This makes it possible for some SEO companies to offer 100 articles for $100 or the like.

In ...

Shock and gasp, “building backlinks doesn't work?”

Well in some situations no. Here I'm covering one of the most common issues my clients talk to me about - “I built lots of backlinks (not spammy ones) but my website still doesn't show high up in Google”

Now sometimes this is because they ...

Many internet forum discussions are full of very questionable advice - I'll explain why and how you can spot a genuine comment.

What's going on?
In short people want to create links from forums to their own websites because they hope this will make their websites rank higher for certain words in ...

I've got to say the SEO bandwagon has become ever more extreme over the last 18 months and it is this that has finally moved me to start blogging.

It seems like an easy bandwagon from the outside - big bucks for easy work in a poorly understood industry.

This lack of ...