Websitegrader.com delivers a useful SEO snapshot

A great free SEO tool for DIY marketers and webmasters My business support client, Lisa at letmedothatforyou, found websitegrader.com and told me all about it.  It’s an excellently simple SEO support tool. Websitegrader measures the marketing effectiveness of your site. The resulting report gives you plain english advice about how to improve the marketing effectiveness of your website. And it delivers a score out [...]

Page one of Google for freelance copywriting

I’ve been on page one of Google for my top two search terms for over a year now. As you can imagine, being top of page 1 in Google’s SERPs brings in a lot of business. Today my positions look like this: freelance copywriter – Google UK – No 2 on page 1 freelance copywriter – [...]

Simple basic website optimisation at a glance

Here’s a nice little online tool to help you optimise your website for search engines: www.seobugz.com All you do is type in your site address. A second later seobugz returns a short and neat report showing you how to improve things like: meta keywords, meta descriptions etc H1 and H2 tags image tags SEO friendly inbound [...]

What do search engines see when they look at your website?

Search engine use words to explore, classify and rank websites. So how do you check what your website looks like to search engines? A neat little free SEO tool at www.seo-browser.com reveals all. It strips out each page’s images, colour, styling and formatting to deliver a clear text-based picture of what you’ve given search engines [...]

Outsourced SEO… check it!

Pay peanuts and could find yourself with monkeys. As well as being a freelance copywriter I run an online business directory, Sonicsyn. As a responsible directory owner I reject all the usual suspects; adult sites, religious nutters, escorts and online pharmacies. But I also reject bad spelling and grammar, submissions to the wrong category, multiple and [...]