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 … [Read more...] about How Marty Weintraub got me to click
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Web Designers please learn SEO or stop selling SEO services
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 … [Read more...] about Web Designers please learn SEO or stop selling SEO services
How much is quality content creation worth?
Quality Content Creation A lot of ecommerce sites are thin and wide, by that I mean they have lots of products but no detail about them. Here is the product, here is the price, here?s a picture of it. You wanna buy? If you desperately want that specific product at that specific time for that specific price then you will buy. SEO can work wonders for the "desperate to buy … [Read more...] about How much is quality content creation worth?
The Secret to writing mortgage paying linkbait
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
Title Tags and the secret story of the hairy golf ball
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 … [Read more...] about Title Tags and the secret story of the hairy golf ball
She is Excited and gives her link freely
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