My first BrightonSEO..

This year I was invited by Graeme & Jo of Site Visibility, our SEO agency, to attend the SEO seminar that they were sponsoring. I thought it would be a great chance to immerse myself in an industry which I have followed for some time, but never really ‘participated’ in.

It started with what promised to be an ..read more »

SEO Progress

Another new keyword in 1st place on Google UK last month.. I love it when a plan comes together!

There is a growing number of people who believe that SEO is a con – this isn’t helped by the fact that there are a lot of cowboys out there, all promising you the world and usually it comes either via cold call tele-campaigns or, increasingly ..read more »

Organic search rankings shown in Google Analytics

Just found this brilliant postthat tells you how to extract your search ranking from the URL that visits your site from Google. If all goes well, I should then be able to know exactly where my search terms are showing up in Google – I will be keeping an eye on this new profile to see what happens.
Failing this, SEO book has a great free tool for the Firefox browser that allows you to input the keywords you would like to keep an eye on and then it fetches their position information in all the main search engines including google.co.uk! It will be good to see if their is nay disparity between these data sets.

Link Strategies

As an SEO, I restle with link building and its ethics (viewed as if by Google), but here is a great forum post about the main methodologies and their associated pitfalls as well related discussion. I’m posting this as it is the first time I have seen such a comprehensive “waffle free” list of these.

Link strategy post – webmasters world

Google PR

I used to obsess, but now I’m really just done with it. It seems to change in a totally obscure and random way! I know I have more people coming from Organic listings than I ever have before, but my PR is down to what it was in April. Ho-Hum.

I’m off to go and do something more useful, like devlope some more nice content to keep people interested and buying (which they seem to be doing a fair bit of late – people just can not get enough cufflinks this month!).