How can I find my old website? Is my website gone forever? If you’ve had a website for a while, then you probably made quite a few changes to it. Sometimes, while making these changes, we forget the critically important step of documenting, archiving, and keeping old content so we can refer back to it later. Sometimes clients come to me as there website has been hacked. They need it rebuilding but don’t remember the exact design or layout. Well there is a fantastic website that can help. It’s called WayBackMachine. What did my website look like a year or
Read more ... →Googles Official SEO Guide! Clients often ask about SEO, what it is, how to do it, why results are not guaranteed and why it costs too much. I recommend learning a bit yourself to see why it is such a complex subject and where better to start than the Google official SEO guide. You can download Googles SEO starter guide here.
Read more ... →What is a responsive website? Let’s go back a few years. Not long ago the biggest challenge presented to a web developer was the array of browsers, which rendered websites in different ways. This resulted in lots of trickery to make sure the code behind the website was tweaked to work on all browsers, namely, those which didn’t follow web standards. Internet Explorer, cough, cough!
Read more ... →As a website builder and SEO consultant there is a question that comes up fairly frequently when speaking to clients, so I will try to answer it in this article. The question is, how long does SEO take to work?
In short, the average amount of time it takes to see real results in a correctly executed SEO campaign is 4-6 months, and this is just an average! Sometimes it takes much longer if the competition is high, and it can be far quicker for low competition keyword phrases.
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When you get a new website you will be eager for people to find it, but you maybe wondering how search engines list a website given this will be one of the places you hope you are found – in the organic search results. How do the search engines decide where to list you, under which search terms and in fact whether to list your site at all? The answer is a search engine spiders such as Googlebot.
Read more ... →Local Business Search and the Google Pigeon Update
In July 2014 Google made yet another change to it’s search algorithm which once again highlights how SEO is an ongoing process and not a one off event. Google normally makes announcements of changes and give the updates names, many will have heard of the panda and penguin Google updates, but on this occasion it was not deemed significant enough to require naming. However, Google did confirm the change with Search Engine Land who decided the update was fairly significant and named it the GOOGLE PIGEON UPDATE (because this is a local search update and pigeons tend to fly back home).
This is a short article to shed a bit of light on the Pigeon update and how it might affect your website rankings in Google.
Read more ... →Negative SEO means a malicious attack on your website to cause your rankings in search engines harm. Negative SEO, also known as Google Bowling, is the practice of spamming competitive websites with back links to devalue them in the search engines. In essence someone has launched an attack on your website to make your website look bad
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