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 [...]

Free sitemaps

Get free sitemaps from www.free-site-map.com Why upload a sitemap? Because search engine ’spiders’ use sitemaps to identify and classify what’s in your website. Why’s that important?  Because search engines index – then deliver – their results to internet users based on the web pages they know about. If  they don’t know what’s on your site, [...]

‘Spinning’ – a risky business

Spinning software ‘spins’ written content. Take a unique article or website description and shove it through a spinning programme. It’ll spew out countless fresh versions of your unique article, replacing words and phrases with synonyms to make every version slightly different. Why bother? Because spinning is a super-fast way to get your message all over the internet, with [...]

A good way to submit quality directory entries

Try easysubmits for the best of both worlds. Quality online directory submissions help improve your website’s visibility to search engines. But tracking down suitable directories and creating a decent entry for each one is time consuming. Some marketers – black hats pulled firmly over their ears – resort to 100% automated directory submissions via clever [...]