SEO Tramp – Now with those extra optimised recipricul 3 way links and shit. Scene 1: An office somewhere. An email is opened. Search Editor (no I don’t know either): “There have been discussions from higher up in our organistaion questioning the value of SOE..” I could go on but I’ve wasted enough time already (my cans are getting warm…read more →
“The main channels of information available to the guerillas are newspapers, leaflets, radio, word of mouth. Other methods may be worked out and new ones invented…All the means of winning the confidence of the people must be utilised. The ideas of the movement must be so popularised that no one is in doubt – least of all the enemy –…read more →
There are various methodologies used to describe the practices of search engine optimisation (SEO) and they generally are colour based, the main 2 are “White Hat” and “Black Hat” techniques. Whilst believing that black hat SEO techniques might have some short term positive effect, the long term implications can be disastrous for your website and in turn your business. Black…read more →
As the Operations Manager for the SME division of one of the UK’s leading digital marketing agencies i thought i would share my thoughts of why outsourcing SEO as a small business is key. You can find my blog post on small business seo over at the Latitude blog. Key points I covered off include: 1 Price 2 Resource 3…read more →
As dawn breaks over the fast paced world of drinking on a park bench – chatting with the cutting edge of the digitul media world, SEO Tramp finds that the nearby phone box is ringing… “SEO Tramp here, excuse the noise, the lads are sorting out a whip round for some more bevy.” “I’ve been liasing with the board of…read more →
A recent post by bigmouthmedia here is saying Google Mobile Goes Instant, I quickly jumped onto my iPhone 4 to check and it seems that the suggest feature is what is showing not instant, as the background SERP’s don’t change upon searching: I’ll keep my eyes peeled to see if instant is rolled out on iPhone mobile. This is available…read more →
As per my previous post about the Manchester SEO SAScon Mini Conference, here is a brief overview of the conference with links to the slides to follow: 2:10 – 2:55 Nichola Stott – The Business of Search: An Insider Perspective on the Search Engine Business and How This Shapes Our Approach Mainly talked about estimating RPM for Google, lot’s of…read more →
Currently on train back from London and wanted to share the programme and profiles of todays #mancseo mini conference at the Hive in Manchester. 1400 – Welcome to Manchester SEO by Pete Young 1410 – The Business of Search: An Insider Perspective on the Search – Nichola Stott 1500 – Optimising for Google News – Barry Adams 1550 – The…read more →
Latest webmaster video from Matt Cutts explains that the site:domain search only shows 3 significant digits or pages indexed, for example if your site: query returns over a thousand pages then only the 1st 3 are indicative of the actual number. Watch the video: Ciao for now
Ok so I recently splashed put an an iPad. I thought about which model to get and weighed up the pro’s and cons between the wifi an the wifi+3G option. I had already decided on. 32gb model at this point. Firstly I considered the 3G model for the web browsing, it would be good on the road at friends houses…read more →