One of the dangers of learning something new (or thinking you’re good at something) is, as a human being, you are inherently critical of others. We naturally assess the work of others and pass judgement on it. It’s a perfectly natural thing to do. Since I started writing fiction, I began finding myself picking apart [...]
Posts Tagged ‘search engine optimisation’
Critically analysing writing & SEO
Posted: 6th October 2010 by Age in SEO, WritingTags: learning from others, search engine optimisation, seo, writing
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Ezine Articles WordPress plugin good for SEO?
Posted: 6th October 2010 by Age in Interesting Discoveries, SEO, WritingTags: article publishing, ezine, search engine optimisation, seo, writing
There are a few article sharing websites out there on the World Wide Web. The idea of how they work is quite simple – you write an article and share it. You can slip a few anchor text based links into, so in theory you can squeeze some SEO juice out of them. The other [...]
SEO ranking factors
Posted: 13th August 2010 by Age in SEOTags: pimpin' aint easy, search engine optimisation, seo, seo ranking factors
Today I made an interesting discovery in the form of SEO ranking factors. SEOmoz has a rather interesting article on the various factors involved in getting a good search engine ranking. There are a LOT of them and all with varying influences. The factors are broken down according to importance and voted on by a [...]
Catching the traffic using current news
Posted: 4th August 2010 by Age in SEOTags: graphic design, logos, relevant traffic, search engine optimisation, seo, traffic
The internet is much like everything else in life, if it’s interesting (or current) people will pay attention. Similarly, the search engines also pay attention. I read an article yesterday about a company who had used this to their advantage in a clever, yet simple way. Milking the recent news around the BP debacle, a [...]
The frustrations of SEO and being leashed
Posted: 30th July 2010 by Age in SEOTags: keyword, search engine optimisation, seo
Part of my job involves SEO of our company website. There’s only two problems – I’m not allowed to touch the actual pages of the keywords we’re actually targeting and Google is an ass. We just dropped down 2 places on the first page of Google for our main keyword phrases. Which is of course [...]
SEO and copywriting tips – patience
Posted: 20th July 2010 by Age in SEOTags: copywriting, search engine optimisation, seo
“Patience is a virtue” – that’s what mother always said. Well, she didn’t actually, but she probably should have done. After spending the last 3 days changing a lot of my old copy for the copy website (after learning a great deal) I’ve once again realised the value of patience. You have to be patient [...]
Age’s noob guide to SEO (Part 10) (Not confusing Google)
Posted: 15th July 2010 by Age in SEOTags: google, search engine optimisation, seo, seomoz
Yesterday I was reading a refreshingingly well written SEO guide by the chaps over at SEOmoz. It contains most of the info that you’d expect and if you know nothing about SEO then it’s certainly a good starting point. One element that stood out for me was the simple concept of not confusing Google. Simplistic [...]