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SEO and Site Design

This article is based on “Ranking #1: 50 Essential Tips to Boost Your Search Engine Results” written by James Beswick and published by One Uproar. A website is a collection of web pages and although Google ranks individual pages rather than entire sites, how these pages are interconnected and managed has an impact on SEO. [...]

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On-page SEO basics for every site

This article is based on “Ranking #1: 50 Essential Tips to Boost Your Search Engine Results” written by James Beswick and published by One Uproar. On-page SEO covers the range of factors you have direct control over in the design of your pages and websites. A few years ago, these factors had a considerably greater [...]

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SEO: Before You Start

This article is based on “Ranking #1: 50 Essential Tips to Boost Your Search Engine Results” written by James Beswick and published by One Uproar. First of all, wait! If you’re already set to hire a web designer or build the site yourself, take some time to plan what you’re about to do. Ranking Number One [...]

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When SEO = Setting Expectations Objectively

One of the frustrations that many companies have when they decide to get all SEO’d is the slow response time in seeing site traffic and conversions increase. Online and offline marketing are expected to operate in the same way – so if publishing a newspaper ad immediately creates phone calls, why don’t SEO efforts create [...]

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How to develop inbound links

Getting other sites to link to yours is a major part of SEO and there are three main ways to do this: Pay a service to get inbound links for you Manually trawl the web for high quality sites and request links or post comments on their blog Develop content and use webpage design to [...]

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SEO: More tools and techniques

This article is based on “Ranking #1: 50 Essential Tips to Boost Your Search Engine Results” written by James Beswick and published by One Uproar. Search engine optimization is a rapidly evolving field, and there are many techniques, tools and applications that can assist with the ongoing to effort to maintain your ranking. Google Webmaster [...]

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Off Page SEO a.k.a. ‘The Hard Part’

This article is based on “Ranking #1: 50 Essential Tips to Boost Your Search Engine Results” written by James Beswick and published by One Uproar. On-page SEO represents the range of factors you have direct control over in designing your web pages and sites. Conversely, ‘off-page’ elements are everything outside your website relating to your [...]

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Playing in the Google Sandbox

There’s confusion about what the Google Sandbox actually is and whether it really exists, but most search engine optimizers have come to agree that it’s a mechanism used by Google to reduce the impact of new websites, and restrict their ability to rank highly. Why would they do this? Google’s priority is to provide quality [...]

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10 Ingenious Ways to Use Twitter

Twitter is not just untethered SMS… While Twitter is ridiculed by Twitnoobs and amateurs for mundane updates such as “I’m watching my cat… asleep”, the service has been taken to the next level by those who have embraced its realtime, geo-tagged, verbose and follower-driven world. Here are 10 clever ways to use Twitter that demonstrate [...]

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