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 [...]

Without SEO, a good business can sink like a stone

Earlier this year a prestigious Government prize was awarded to a ‘unique’ new online service. Submitted by a member of the public in good faith, the prizewinning idea was a website that tells people what they can and can’t recycle in their area. Shortly after the winner was announced on the BBC Radio 4 news, a [...]

Which search engines should I concentrate on for SEO?

Find out where to focus your resources. It’s easy to forget that there’s more to life than Google. But is it worth spending time and money targeting SEO at the other search engines, like Yahoo and Ask? I’ve just uploaded an RSS feed from Hitwise which gives the latest stats for search engine usage in [...]