Optimising and performing SEO from Cornwall

Your dream/nightmare has come true and you are a contestant on the Apprentice. You are given the task of selling hamburgers and dropped in Times square. After 30 fruitless minutes of getting trampled on by New Yorkers as they steamroller by tying to sell them 100% prime beef between two buns, you decide to take a breather.

A free newspaper blows by and you notice the Fat Food Association of Utah is in town having a sponsored fast. You read the article and notice that it is being held a few blocks over and is about to finish. You move your entrepreneurial backside over there as fast as possible. [Read more…] about How to guarantee sales to the Fat Association of Utah

Marty Weintraub needs to blog more. If only to jump start my brain in the morning. He has an excellent post at the moment called, Drive 28,402 Extra Visitors by Blogging for 48 Minutes. When I see a headline like that I think “yeah yeah yeah, nice linkbait.” And then I read it.

Lets deconstruct that last sentence, because something very interesting is going on. I see it a lot lately in blog posts about linkbait where they simply label linkbait as a trick. It is not a trick, it’s a promise. [Read more…] about How Marty Weintraub got me to click

I am sick to death of clients coming to me with websites built by web designers who do not know the basics of SEO.

Some clients spend thousands of pounds and end up with a site that needs to be re coded, simply because title tags have not been included, or a H1 tag or an effective internal link structure.

Yet go onto the unmentioned Cornwall Web Designer website and “Effective SEO services” are offered. [Read more…] about Web Designers please learn SEO or stop selling SEO services

Spend a little time. Search for “how to write linkbait”, or “how to create linkbait” and you will soon get hit by a bunch of how to’s.

You could bypass all that and go check out my list of linkbait articles.

After a while a pattern emerges in the step by step guides to linkbait, and it seems there isn’t that much to learn. [Read more…] about The Secret to writing mortgage paying linkbait

It’s easy to to answer the question, “Do you know how I can get to the top of Google?”

I get this a lot lately, it’s what happens when you go to business networking meetings and announce you are an SEO. I tell them a simple way to increase their rankings is to optimise their title tags. And I just know their title tags are going to be crap because of the type of question asked. [Read more…] about Title Tags and the secret story of the hairy golf ball

A potential linker to your website has power.

Linkbait, is all about the transfer of power.

She has the power to link to you, once you persuade her to link to you she has transfered that power to you.

She must surrender, to your pitch to induce her to link to you. [Read more…] about She is Excited and gives her link freely