How do I get review stars in my Google Listing
Posted by owen | Filed under how to
HTML 5 and SEO
Posted by owen | Filed under Business SEO
So if you work in SEO you’re probably more than aware of the new HTML5 format and the variety of new tags this has introduced (not to be confused with Microformats which I will be covering soon). With all the buzz surrounding this the question that many forget to ask is will the search engines actually pay attention to this. And by the search engines what I really mean is Google.
So you think you know integrated SEO
Posted by owen | Filed under Agency life, Business SEO
Integrated SEO is something which should play a lot bigger part of everyday agency life than it does. Unfortunately I have found it’s always difficult to get people of different areas of expertise in the same room within the same agency. With integrated SEO you have the additional problem that often the interested parties are in different agencies some which may even have their own SEO departments who probably pitched for the work you’re doing.
Google use longer snippets and scrap the description tag
Posted by owen | Filed under Updates
Google have decided that the best way to serve long tail queries is to remove the use of the description tag in the SERPs and replace it with a longer snippet taken from the text on page.
So you want to find out how much traffic your competitors get
Posted by owen | Filed under Events, how to
I thought I would use some actual data and compare it to the most popular traffic estimator tools and see what they came up with.