David Rosam on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Blogging, Housekeeping, Search Engine Optimization
I encourage my clients who blog to blog often. It’s a good idea, as long as the quality doesn’t falter, of course
I’ve just failed to post for almost a whole month owing to extreme busyness. My apologies.
Let’s hope I can get properly back on stream again.
David Rosam on Sep 24 2007 | Filed under: Google, Search Engine Optimization
As Google tries to make its search results more relevant, we’re seeing how content, TLD (eg .com, .co.uk etc) and host location are interacting to influence natural search results.
I’m not going to give any secrets away about our clients, but we’ve seen unexpected results for a number of sites and for this blog.
Let’s concentrate on [...]
David Rosam on Sep 06 2007 | Filed under: Search Engine Optimization
It’s not just Dangerous Thinking that’s doing well on Google. Web Positioning Centre is now top for ‘proven web optimization’.
which, I guess, must prove something about our approach to SEO.
The site also ranks No 1 for ‘proven web optimisation’.
David Rosam on Aug 23 2007 | Filed under: Google, Search Engine Optimization
We always advise our clients that reciprocal linking (”I’ll link to you, if you link to me”) is a waste of effort. Yet earlier today a friend of mine challenged that point of view by saying that Google explicitly contradicts our advice.
Off to Google to see what they say about linking these days. I found [...]
David Rosam on Aug 21 2007 | Filed under: Blogging, SEO copywriting, Search Engine Optimization
May I blow my own trumpet a little?
I’ve just noticed that Dangerous Thinking is No 1 on Google.co.uk (Web) for SEO copywriting blog.
Can I lay claim to Dangerous Thinking being the top blog on SEO Copywriting in this country?
David Rosam on Aug 14 2007 | Filed under: SEO copywriting, Search Engine Optimization
Actually, they’re not.
It’s a topic that has come up a few times in meetings recently, as people want to divide their sites up into sections such as http://wensleydale.cheese.com. Nice and keyword-rich, yes, but a real hamper to your organic SEO results. And a fashion in webmaster circles from a few years back.
So where’s the [...]
David Rosam on Aug 08 2007 | Filed under: Search Engine Optimization
An interesting piece of research is featured over at Search Engine Land.
Elliance’s infographic on Search Engine Click-Thru Behavior (sic) indicates that 62% of search users clicked on a result on the first page of search results (positions 1-10), and just 28% of search users clicked on a result on pages 2 and 3 (positions [...]
David Rosam on Aug 01 2007 | Filed under: SEO copywriting, Search Engine Optimization
Many of the Web sites we look at suffer from key word stuffing. While I mentioned key word stuffing some time ago on Dangerous Thinking, I’ve never talked in depth about the practice and why it’s undesirable.
Let’s start with why you should avoid it - simply, the search engines will penalise you by pushing [...]
David Rosam on Jul 18 2007 | Filed under: Marketing, Search Engine Optimization
I’ve just listed ITcopywriting.co.uk on eBay.
It’s a great one for a specialist marketing consultancy, ad agency, freelance copywriter or journalist. And, of course, it has a couple of great keywords if you’re interested in optimizing the site.
Edit: I didn’t get the asking price, but will be readvertising the domain. In the meantime, I’m open [...]
David Rosam on Jul 04 2007 | Filed under: Blogging, Search Engine Optimization
Not a huge surprise following Google’s takeover of FeedBurner, but very welcome nonetheless. Google has made the full FeedBurner PRO stats package available for free to everyone.
I use FeedBurner on my blogs as well as our clients’, where I see its strengths more as a promotional tool than a stats package. Yet, of course, there [...]
