Search Engine Optimisation Comment and Solutions
A great video here that’s we’ve embedded from Seomoz which has Tom Critchlow from Distilled giving a step by step guide how to carry out a SEO site review:
SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday-SEO Site Reviews Step-by-Step from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.
The tools that are mentioned are:
- SEOmoz SEO Tools
- Live HTTP Headers
The Google keyword research tool used to be a bit coy about the results it gave, there were no acual hard figures, just comparative levels.
Well today the tool has been update and gives much more exact visitor numbers from June 2008 onwards.
Keyword research just got much, much, much more simple!
See https://adwords.google.co.uk/select/KeywordToolExternal
I have been an avid watcher of videos posted by well known SEO’s ever since they started appearing. Until recently I only watched them embedded into people’s pages. Yesterday I thought “hmm, there must be more of these on YouTube” as YouTube is where all the SEO’s host their embedded videos.
When you view the videos on YouTube you obviously see the number of watches these videos have had, I was expecting tens of thousands of people to have watched these videos, but I got rather a shock, some of these videos have had incredibly few views, some less than 100!
What’s going on?! These videos are in the main excellent, and they quite often contain better snippets of info than textual articles. People are really missing out a great deal by not watching these videos. Get out there and discover them!
Here’s some to get you started:
Rand Fishkin of Seomoz.org explains geotargetting
Barry Schwarz of seroundtable.com gives a roundup of the weeks search engine news (week ending July 4th 2008)
Gary Beal (A.K.A. GaryTheScubaGuy) giving tips on link building at the 2008 Online Marketing Show London.
When you are looking for the services of an SEO it’s because it’s a service you can’t do for yourself (usually). However we all know that SEO done badly can cost you dear, either you will get a poor service that does very little and achieves nothing, or an SEO company who use black hat tactics that can lead to your website being banned, or worse, they are both!
Google have now posted advice for anyone looking to hire in SEO services, it tells you what to look for in a good SEO company and how to identify a poor SEO company. Read the full article here.
Ever wondered how much traffic a competitors website gets? Well now there is a way to find out. Google Trends has been extended to now cover traffic data for individual websites with Google Trends for Websites.
You can now see trend for daily unique visitors for any website with a reasonable amount of traffic that Google indexes. If you login to your Google account you will also see actual figures so you can actually see that in the last month wikipedia was getting around 25 million unique visitors a day for example.
As well as visitor trends you can also find where a websites visitors are coming from geographically, what other sites they visited and the search terms they used.
A fantastic new research tool from Google!