I don’t like Quora. I didn’t get to invest in it or create it. Quora is going to succeed. But, I am not going to be adding to its database, unless it’s to do a bit of reputation management for clients. Also, if lots of places start scraping it, it may be worth dropping a [...]
The Top Search Terms for the last 30 Days are
January 6, 2011 By 2 Comments
I think it was Rand Fishkin at SEOMoz who started the tradition of pulling back the velvet curtain and showing the goodies. I find it very interesting trawling through the past 30 days keywords of a relatively busy site. Traffic for Cornwallseo.com has taken a nose dive during the past year due to my not [...]
Gonzo SEO
October 20, 2010 By 2 Comments
I hate aspiring writers who bang on about HST as if invoking the name of Mr Thompson will somehow make them writerly Gods. Take your heroes, burn them. Then spread the ashes on your toast as you wait for you latest bittorrent of Manga to download. However, for those who know what gonzo journalism is [...]
Greek Coffee Fused with SEO Twitter Streams
October 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
An SEO should always travel. Even if just to load up the Google front page and view how the foreigners search for stuff. As I sit with salt baked onto my skin whilst I sip the surprisingly good, sludgy, Greek coffee, I think about the bubbles we exist in. How different people, who speak different [...]
General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord said
July 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord said “I divide officers into four classes — the clever, the lazy, the stupid and the industrious. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the high staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. [...]
What Dan Raine Taught me about SEO Agencies
July 7, 2010 By 4 Comments
I was watching a Dan Raine presentation in the wee small hours of the morning. And I realised what seo agencies are about. Or rather what they are not about. It’s something that has been niggling me for a while and I probably haven’t raised it because a lot of my clients are seo agencies. [...]
Why Am I Bad at SEO?
June 9, 2010 By 5 Comments
I have to confess, I am really bad at optimising my web pages. And the reason is this, “It’s not knowledge that holds most people back in SEO, it’s Implementation”. … which was something I tweeted a couple of hours ago whilst reading an seo forum. I have to say, link builder, Debra Mastaler and [...]
SEO Keyword Research using Google Insight
May 5, 2010 By 2 Comments
Update: I didn’t think to check that the information presented was going to be live and so what I talk about in the post does not now reflect the data. DOH! Obviously I should have taken a screen shot and done it that way. But the points are still valid, it’s just the data set [...]
Is Blog Commenting Useless for SEO
The difference between an SEO who has tested commenting on blogs and one who hasn’t is that the one who hasn’t says it doesn’t work and the one who has keeps quiets about it and keeps commenting. As an SEO it also marks you out as to whether they are in the Premier League or [...]