If you’re looking to build a new website you’ll want to get something that is brandable but also give your users some idea of what the website is all about. One of the best ways to go about this is by choosing a keyword and then adding a suffix to the end of it. Continue reading ‘Domain Suffix Ideas’ »

Recently, Matt Cutts announces that Google is developing a penalty for the rankings of websites that have been overly optimising their content. Continue reading ‘Matt Cutts Announces Penalties for Over Optimisation’ »

Found a lovely site from Rand from Moz and Dharmesh from HubSpot, if you’re interested in the sphere of seo and inbound marketing then I’d suggest you have a look at what’s happening over there – this is a place that people like me and others put the things that interest them, not only that if you’re interested in this sphere I’d suggest Inbound.org is the place to go to see what the inbound marketing community think is interesting at the moment. Continue reading ‘What is Inbound.org?’ »

Recently there has been a flurry of people reporting they have been hit with a Webmaster tools penalty that focus’ on the backlinks coming into the site – as this coincides with the most recent update to the Google Panda update (Panda 3.3) I’m assuming it’s part of this update.

Google’s Panda updates exist outside Google’s normal algorithm changes, they are run regularly to tidy up the rankings and the aim of them is to hunt out wrong doers and penalise them for their wrong doings. Continue reading ‘What does Google Webmaster Tools notice of detected unnatural links mean?’ »

If you’ve been following the GrowTraffic blog you’ll have seen a post back in November about the use of exact match domains to get a better place in the rankings and how Google was indicating this loophole / benefit will be phased out. Interestingly, new research has been released by the Open Algorithm Project (Domain Name SEO). Continue reading ‘Choosing the right domain – Exact Match Domain update and Top Level Domain Choices’ »

I’m in the process of building a microsite for a client that would like me to do some work for them. Our agreement hasn’t actually started yet however when I looked into this area I thought it was worth me building the site in advance to take advantage of what looks to be a new market / new marketing opportunity. Continue reading ‘How to choose the domain of a microsite’ »

I’ve realised this week that you can spend too much time on a site – they definitely need to be right on the nail but you can spend far too long looking at exactly which image should go there. I’ve been involved with enough website builds in my time to have a feel for what will and won’t work – but I find myself hesitating and agonising over something as simple as whether an image should have a blue border around it or not.

I have to keep reminding myself – as I often do clients that a website is a transitional piece of marketing, that as long as you’ve got the basic structure in place you can reskin it whenever you need to.

A sales guy I used to work with used the metaphor “a website is like a house you’ve got to get the foundations right first” I think a better metaphor is a shopping center – you’ve got to get the walkways, the escalators, the lifts in the right places – but you don’t have to worry to much about the shop fronts – because these will undoubtedly change and evolve (as they should) over time.

I’m very happy with the latest website to go live www.pharmaforecasting.com

I’m putting it out there that a guy I know is looking to recruit an SEO / Internet Marketer. They are based in the centre of Preston, Lancashire (near the Prison).

I’d really like to try and help him out finding the right person for the role. If you’re looking for a SEO job in Preston please let me know.

Continue reading ‘SEO Jobs in Preston (online marketing)’ »

Here are my thoughts about how the search market, seo and generally internet marketing side of things will change in 2012. It’s a bit of fun but it should give us some ideas about what we should and shouldn’t be doing in the coming year.

I’d love to here your thoughts on how the market will change in the coming year. Continue reading ‘SEO Predictions for 2012’ »

It’s not quite the end of 2011 however I thought it would be nice to have a look at how successful the blog posts on GrowTraffic have been this year, in order to get a feeling for the themes I’ve discussed that have really touched a nerve. Continue reading ‘Most viewed blog posts in 2011’ »