Choosing key phrases

November 21st, 2010 by Phil | No Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

When choosing key phrases it is really important to ensure you take your time and do the necessary research. There are now lots of tools around which can give you loads of ideas and help you make a decision. Be careful not to focus too heavily on overly competitor key phrases as it is likely these will take a significant amount of time achieve. Longer tailed key phrases might not bring the larger volumes of traffic, which the competitive key phrases may, but you are likely to see quicker results. Obviously it will differ depending on what industry you are in.

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New Google Preview Tool

November 20th, 2010 by Carl | No Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

Goole has introduced a new preview tool which allows users to view the homepage of a website before actually clicking through to it. You will notice a little magnifying glass has appeared next to the title, and when clicked, it produces a small image showing how the site looks. Personally I have found this very useful, as it gives the user an idea of the look of a website without having to navigate away from the search page. This change demonstrates how important a good web design is.

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Is SEO the same for the iPhone?

October 18th, 2010 by Carl | No Comments | Filed in Algorithms

Is SEO the same for the iPhone? Some people wonder if Google uses a different algorithm for people who search Google on the iPhone. Before I anser the question, I’m going to mention why I chose this topic. Basically, I got myself an iPhone 4 over the weekend! Woohoo! Back to the main topic, Google uses the same algorithm as when searching on a desktop computer however there are very slight difference. It may depend if you have your GPS switched on etc. If so, Google will give you more local search results when searching for local related items, such as pizza!

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Bing and Facebook partnership

October 15th, 2010 by Carl | No Comments | Filed in Social Media

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Excerpt: You may have heard that a few days ago Bing and Facebook went into partnership and into a deep relationship. This has been a blow to Google and has put Bing well ahead in the social Sphere. Since Facebook is closed, no other company has access to the data link Bing has – not even Google. For Bing this is great news and they will be implementing Facebook results in their SERPs. For Facebook, this is needed and they don’t know what else to do. They know that Google is planning something really big in the social sphere and a direct attack…

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Setting up an SEO business is cheap

October 13th, 2010 by Carl | No Comments | Filed in Basic SEO

Setting up an SEO business is cheap… However it can be difficult to start to get business and make some money and profit. Because every Tom, Bob and Tony are starting their own SEO business and  more and more businesses and people are becoming more and more familiar with SEO thus they are choosing the more founded, larger and bigger SEO firms to give their website to. Thus business is hard to get. Setting up is cheap because all you really need is a Laptop and an internet connection with a place to work from. What is your opinion? Am I right?

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