Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) 9

SEO Copywriting Makes up 50% of Your SEO Marketing Campaign

A large proportion of SEO marketing is based around copywriting. From article marketing down to meta-data and even PPC ads, the copywriting must deliver reader capturing text that converts.

Most People Can Write – But Can They Copywrite?

SEO copywriting isn’t just about being a good writer. Grammatically correct text is essential, but there is more to this pony than one trick. Solid marketing experience is required across a variety of industry in order to apply the correct strategy for the target audience. Read more

16/06/2010/by Ash Mehta

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Classic SEO Mistakes to Avoid

Over the last week or so we have been looking at various SEO techniques to help increase traffic and popularity. So in this post I think it is important to summarise common SEO mistakes that prevent effective search engine optimization. Whether you are an internet marketing company or SEO student, these things are important to learn and recap on now and again.

Lazy Keyword Research: It is easy to cut corners and guess your way through a keyword strategy. Read more

15/06/2010/by Ash Mehta

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Social Media Marketing (SMM), Social Media Optimisation (SMO)

8 Reasons You Should Be Using Social Media for SEO PR

Social Media is an integral part of your search engine optimisation strategy. Social media offers guaranteed website promotion and effective SEO PR. Here are 8 key reasons you should be utilising this free marketing resource.

Brand Recognition: The more platforms your brand has a presence within the more potential customers will identity with your business. The longer you are present Read more

14/06/2010/by Ash Mehta

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Social Media Marketing (SMM), Social Media Optimisation (SMO)

Twitter – The Ultimate in Organic Search Optimisation

You’ve probably heard about it and the likelihood is you are using it, but are you using Twitter correctly? Twitter is the ultimate organic SEO tool yet too many people are spending their days using a poorly optimised profile and sending out useless tweets.

What you should be doing is carving out your niche on Twitter, set out your stool and strategy and do not deviate from the plan. Here are 10 essential Twitter questions you should be asking yourself today:

Is your username niche and original, will it get you noticed?
What exactly are you using Twitter for? Read more

09/06/2010/by Ash Mehta

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Better To Rent Than Buy SEO

To buy SEO would mean paying a lump sum of money to an SEO company for the optimization of your site on a one off basis in the hope that you will miraculously climb the search engine rankings. But, as I have said before and never get tired of repeating; SEO is an ongoing process which requires trial and error and consistent attention. If I had a dollar for every time I have heard a boss say, “how much to get this SEO thing done then?” I would be a rich man.

FACT: You can’t buy SEO, you need to Read more

01/06/2010/by Ash Mehta

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

A Professional SEO Company or An Internet Blogger – Who Will You Believe?

This week I read one of those ‘so called expert’ SEO blogs that hand out seemingly good advice for the Internet community. I came across one bold statement that instantly struck me as a wild and somewhat false claim. This guy was telling the world that when it comes to SEO, “if you have WordPress you are 80% there”. If I were to buy that line, then that would mean the last 20% of SEO I could handle myself and my website would be fully optimised for the princely sum of $0, right?

Internet Propaganda Will Lead You Astray

Wrong. The negative side of the internet is that a large percentage of its information is hearsay and propaganda. This guy was clearly trying to throw people off the trail, because in my experience there is no avoiding professional search engine optimisation. In fact, no matter how good you think your SEO is, there will always be something professional SEO can do for you. No website Read more

25/05/2010/by Ash Mehta

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Want SEO? Go Economical Not Cheap

Cheap SEO Services

It baffles me when I hear people say they want to employ cheap SEO or find cheap SEO services. By definition the word cheap implies that you want a service of medium to low quality. Fair enough, cheap jeans might last but they do go out of shape quicker – cheap SEO will struggle to have much shape to begin with. It doesn’t make any sense. When it comes to your website, your business, your pride and joy, why would you want to cut corners? Read more

24/05/2010/by Ash Mehta

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Top 10 On Page Website SEO Tips

On Page Website SEO

On-page website optimisation is the twin sister of external website optimisation. Sometimes referred to as internal SEO, on-page website SEO is of equal importance to your web marketing campaign as external optimisation. Below are 10 useful tips to help you maximise your on-page search engine optimisation:

Ensure every page of your site contains unique content.
Do not duplicate your website content under another URL. This will affect the website optimisation of your primary site. Read more

21/05/2010/by Ash Mehta

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

The SEO Triangle – Website Placement – Website Positioning – Website Promotion

Getting the website built for your business was trauma enough, right? But now you are being told about this search engine optimisation (SEO) thing that needs to be done so your website can be optimized for the search engines. It never seems to stop does it, one thing after another when it comes to technical stuff. Well don’t stress, SEO is actually quite easy to understand at a basic level, past that point you should employ an expert to optimize your website and carry out SEO tasks on a monthly basis. Read more

20/05/2010/by Ash Mehta

Internet/Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

SEO is Useless Without a Solid Strategy

Internet Marketing Strategy and Planning

For any business initiative to achieve success there must be a comprehensive strategy planning process, and internet marketing is no exception. Planning should involve the use of in-depth market and competitor analysis and should be documented in the form of a structured proposal. Internet marketing strategies are no different in concept to any other general business strategy; there are certain fundamental aspects of a strategy that cannot be bypassed, for example:

Project aim
Description of the target demographic
Competitor analysis Read more

19/05/2010/by Ash Mehta