At first I was going to make this blog a rant about the useless blog comments I am having to trawl through on a almost daily basis, but after considering this, I thought I would instead share my insights in good and bad blog commenting etiquette. (thank you spammers for giving me a topic to [...]
No, this is not a post about Twitter, but a neat little tag, that can be used in numerous ways both to preserve link juice, and as a hindrance to your SEO efforts.
The No-follow tag is a simple piece of code that can be added to links on a website to tell Googlebot not to [...]
Okay if you have followed the first post http://www.optimize-yorkshire.com/keyword-research/keyword-selection-the-foundation-of-seo you will know that we were looking at how to find keywords for a dry cleaning company in Newcastle.
We found ideas from Google’s keyword tool with the expected search volumes.
The following keyword’s look Good
Dry Cleaning Newcastle, Dry Cleaners Newcastle
All In Title
But how competitive is the market?. [...]
How fast does your website load?, if you don’t know you might want to check, thanks to Google’s recent updates that page load times may well be a ranking factor in organic SEO. Long believed to have an effect on PPC (pay per click) rankings and quality score, there is rumour this will now start [...]
The key to any successful SEO plan is getting the keyword’s right for your site. To achieve this there are a number of step’s to take.
The first is to think about what your site sells or the service your provide. Do you provide a local service? or is it an ecommerce site with a national [...]
You might have noticed a change in the way that Google shows results recently, this is called ‘personalised search’. The idea behind this change is that Google wanted to give a more individual approach to show search engine results, and cater them to your own personal preference.
If you have already clicked on a site in [...]
How many of us have recieved phone calls or emails from seo companies advising they can get either first page in Google or no.1 spot in search engines. Probably all of us at sometime, have received a cold call or an email which quickly ends up in the spam box.
So how do companies are looking [...]
I was not surprised the other day when I walked through my neighbourhood in Sheffield, to see the yellow pages book, still sitting on peoples doorsteps.
It’s not just the book that has took a hit, as many people have turned away from yell.com to find companies via search engines like Google.
Search Engines are free [...]

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