Category Archives: SEO Help & Tips

SEO Hourly Rates Doesn’t Equal SEO Costs!

If you’re trying to figure out how SEO is charged, and how much it’s going to cost you -what you need to understand from the beginning, is there is not necessarily a direct correlation between how much you are paying for SEO, and how much it costs you…. Confused? You soon will be First of [...]

Green Light For Go – SEO. Amber light for PPC.

What is Kev going on about now?? I’m simply sharing my opinion that search engine optimisation (SEO) is safe, but pay per click marketing can be a real money pit. I’m not suggesting that you can’t lose money with SEO – in fact, there are plenty of firms out there operating a services which have [...]

Dmoz Submission – Still Worth Submitting to Dmoz?

A question commonly asked on SEO blogs & forums, concerns Dmoz, and whether or not it’s still worth submitting to Dmoz. [By the way - check out Brad Callen's FREE Directory Submitter] My opinion, is that yes – it’s still worth submitting to Dmoz. No – Dmoz submission isn’t instant, there’s no fast -track, you [...]

Directory Submissions – Worth the effort?

A common question amongst webmasters, concerns the usefulness of directory submissions. [By the way - check out Brad Callen's FREE Directory Submitter] Because most of the free directories also offer paid submissions, and because many  directories are not passing any link juice as a result of having a paid backlinking trail, it would make sense [...]

SEO Questions & Answers

As I’m getting quite a lot of SEO questions – I’m creating this post as the place to ask any SEO questions you have. To ask a question- just do it in the form of a reply. Don’t worry about sounding silly, it doesn’t matter how basic or advanced the question is – ask away [...]

Get On Google in minutes…

Google submission, Add URL, Google Submit…. Can’t believe people are still searching for this stuff… A client told me yesteday that they had “done the Google Add URL stuff” and was still sat twiddling thumbs weeks later, waiting to appear on Google – minutes later I got their website into the Google index – like [...]

Is Pagerank Currency?

I’m writing this post today in response to a comment made to my blog post titled “Who Cares About Google Pageank? industrial adhesive Says: interesting perspective on pagerank. it is considered by many to be the “currency” of the internet due to its far reaching influence. but i do tend to agree with you that [...]

SEO for twitter – why we shouldn’t use Tiny URL’s

This is just a quick one.. We all agree that Twitter is a good SEO tool? For those who’re not sure – I’ll write another longer post shortly about this,  or join my search engine marketing tips newsletter (form over there on the right hand side) but basically, getting your URL into tweets doesn’t have [...]

OK, so flash sites can be modified to be SE friendly, does this mean we should design sites totally in flash?

A  flash designer has just replied via twitter to an article I wrote some time ago, to say that the info is 10 years out of date, as flash is fine for search engines. So, as well as replying to that message via twitter, I thought hmm this guy does have a point, so I’ll [...]

What the heck is URL canonicalization

You’ll more than likely of heard of URL canonicalization, particularly “Google URL canonicalization issue” but what is it, and what do you need to do about it? It’s a big word used by Americans, they like big words, especially at Google, makes them sound all clever! (well, they are clever, so we’ll let them off)  [...]