It’s that time of year again, and as 2010 draws to a close I thought I’d take the opportunity to share with you my thoughts on the world of SEO in 2011. Following are the SEO practices which I think will remain important in 2011, as well as the factors that I think will become [...]

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If you have read a handful of my previous posts, you will no doubt be aware of my belief that the most important part of SEO is the initial keyword research. Keyword research is a two fold process – not only do you need to know exactly what keywords attract regular traffic each month, you [...]

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One of the most important factors behind commercially successful websites is their ability to discover profitable traffic channels for their online products. Whilst Google’s Keyword Tool can help us oncover keywords that have regular traffic, it’s another skill to then go on and define which of these keywords will have the best conversion from ‘traffic’ [...]

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Over the last few weeks, we’ve been looking at much of the background surrounding SEO. We’ve gone through the notion of creating a new website from an SEO point of view, through targeting keywords, researching competition, indexing your new site and acquiring good links to it. More recently, we’ve looked at a newer form of [...]

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Post 8 on SEO considerations when building a website from concept to completion. You’re new website is live, you’re on-page SEO has been worked to perfection and now you want the world to sit up and acknowledge the fine work you have done so far. Like a talented and aspiring rock band, you now need [...]

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Post 7 on SEO considerations when building a website from concept to completion. All of the posts to date have looked at how to research, plan, build and design your new website. This week were going to look at how to make your new website as SEO friendly as possible. You’ll need one finished website, [...]

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Part 4 of a series on SEO considerations when building a website from concept to completion. If you have worked through last week’s post, you should now have a list of around 10 keywords that you would like your new website to target and, ultimately, rank for.  Now we know where we want our website [...]

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Part 3 of a series on SEO considerations when building a website from concept to completion. Last post we looked at how Google’s Keyword Tool can help us find a keyword rich domain for our new website. This post will follow on from here and look at how we can dig deeper into Google and [...]

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Part 2 of a series on SEO considerations when building a website from concept to completion. If you took a handful of successful websites across a variety of markets, I’d bet that the one factor that they all share is one of choosing the right keywords. Whether you discover the your keywords by hook or [...]

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