Category: SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
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Conversation about Semantic SEO
Everything started with my thoughts on a article written by Damian Thompson and called What The Heck Is Semantic SEO & Should You Care At All? At the end of the day it doesn’t matter whether you call it Semantic SEO or just SEO. Adapting to the semantic search topography will be part of every SEO’s job description going…
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How Rich Content Affects Rankings and Conversions
“Rich content counts, creative copy engenders good ranking and there’s no gaming about it” – Peter Hatherley – SEO Services Christchurch Or how Hummingbird changed the Landscape of the Web Forever. Why did Google launched Hummingbird in the first place? Well, Google wants to become an answer engine, answering users’ questions rather than providing a list…
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7 Common mistakes to avoid when when going mobile-friendly
Is Your Mobile Friendly Website Ready For April 21st? Updating your webpage to a responsive design is a great step, but it’s important to avoid common mistakes which Google announced on their webmasters blog (goo.gl/WmoUFA). In Google’s own words: “Here are some common mistakes we see on mobile websites. Make sure your site doesn’t have…
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Do Social Signals impact our SEO?
Some thoughts on Social Media and SEO based on Eric Enge’s (CEO of Stone Temple Consulting) article for Convince & Convert called ‘Do Social Signals Drive SEO?’ So Do Social Signals Drive SEO? Many people/clients are asking me the same question over and over again: Do social signals drive SEO? In a way how do social signals impact…
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301 Redirect and SEO
It hurts me to see how many people nowadays are losing their SEO link value by not implementing properly a 301 redirect. What is a 301 redirect? A 301 redirect will be sending visitors and (when it comes to SEO ranking) search engines to a different location (URL) that they originally requested. From an SEO point…
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SEO Tip of the day (well more like 9 Killer SEO Tips)
If, like me, you’re thinking that writing an article every day might be hard work, then it might just be a way to create a ‘weekly article’ which you can then use to summarize what’s happened in the last week and look at what you could be doing differently in your industry. So there is…
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Dr Google
“Real search is about providing valuable information when it’s really needed to those who are actually looking for it.” – David Amerland Last week Google started giving health related answers in the #KnowledgeGraph answer boxes. So from now on Google will start giving relevant medical facts right up front from the Google Knowledge Graph.But those…
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SEO Tips for Blog Writing
Post length isn’t everything – but it helps, especially if you want your content to be referenced by others around the web. In my personal experience, short blog articles are not performing well in the SERPs. When working for a major UK brand I did a research to establish the correlation between page ranking and…
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2015 SEO Predictions
Semantic Search is changing SEO forever. It’s all about optimising your content and everything you do online for your customers rather than just Google, and this is a radical shift in thinking. SEO 2015 Workout: How To Gain Weight from SEMrush Google wants us to be more human. Words like trust, authority, personality are fashionable…