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Tag Archives: SEO Ranking
Blackhat Link Building Tactics You Should Stop
Over the past two months the rankings of several websites around the globe have been hit hard. Several tactics used by both black hat and white had link builders have proven detrimental to rankings and many strategies have had to … Continue reading
Optimising Reviews for Local SEO Search Results
Word of mouth remains the most cherished form of advertising and for at least a century advertisers have asked themselves how to generate it. With the dawn of the Internet, this question has been transplanted to the web. The best … Continue reading
Making Facebook Fans into Customers
Facebook is rapidly becoming a hot tool for businesses. Companies are absolutely flocking to this social-media network to market their products or services. Starting out as a place to find and hang out with friends, Facebook has developed into a … Continue reading
Click Through Rates Dropping
A recent SEO report 1 shows that 52% of searchers click on a search result found on the first page of Google. The report based on Bing vs. Google CTR 2 study shows a noticeable drop of Click Through Rates … Continue reading
Google is Happy with Shortened URL’s : Good news for SEO Efforts
Shortened URL’s certainly tamed the long and unwieldly website address but with it came the concern that using them would somehow have a negative effect on SEO efforts. Well, give a sigh of relief. The search engine will treat custom … Continue reading
SEO Results : How long before you see top rankings?
Since the Internet has become an integral part of modern life, our world has been on fast forward. An unfathomable pool of information is on the tip of a mouse click. SEO, in contrast, does not take effect quickly at all, and there are good reasons for it. If your site doesn’t scoot up the rankings, don’t despair. It is not a sign that your SEO campaign has failed. Continue reading
Site Rankings – The Secret Power of URL’s : SEO Techniques
Search engine crawlers are the work donkeys of the internet. If you want to increase your online presence and improve overall SEO, it is imperative that you lure these crawlers to your website. Although it is not the be-all and end-all of online exposure, the choice of website URL can be very helpful in this regard. You need to make your site’s pages as easy as possible to map and index. This will help to guide the search engine crawlers to your website. One way of doing this is to choose search-friendly URL’s for your website. Continue reading
Ask your SEO Company: How long to rank?
Assuming your SEO Company has constructed and implemented your search engine optimisation elements correctly your rankings should maintain themselves long after you have stopped your formal SEO project. The other great advantage is that if you are making the effort Continue reading
We see Matt Cutts is having the same SEO thoughts as National Positions today
OK, so Matt is thinking about the same things as us today. He’s an up to date video on [site:] command within Google: Tweet
Simple SEO Techniques: Is my site indexed by Google?
There are many elements to a successful SEO project; keyword selection, site construction, URL choice, domain age, unique content, meta data…. the list goes on. However, for those with an existing website and who are considering, or already have, a … Continue reading


