If you’re thinking of doing your own SEO, or even if you’ve already started, here’s a 14-point checklist you can use to guide you to better rankings and more targetted traffic in Google.

Whether you’re looking to gain more exposure for your existing website or you’re building a new site from scratch, there are some simple considerations to take into account that will ensure your target audience finds your site. Structure If your site has a clear hierarchy and text links (as oppose to image/flash/javascript links), both users and search engines will be able to navigate your content more easily. Ensure that every

One of the biggest questions companies ask when weighing up the use of an SEO and digital marketing company is, ‘how much will it cost us?’ You will quickly find that most legitimate digital marketing agencies are reluctant to provide a definite price up front for their services although some will indicate minimum monthly spends. This is not simply because they change the price to suit the customer, however. It

SEO – or search engine optimisation – is the process of helping to get your website ranked well for key terms in the search engine results pages (SERPS). For almost any business universally, it is Google’s results that matter the most. The process of SEO involves three main stages: first, optimising your website so that the search engines can best understand what it is about; second, adding unique quality content

The holiday season is fast approaching and most of us will have some idea of what we’d like to find under the tree this Christmas.  If you’re stuck for Christmas gift ideas and you want to give something that’ll make a slightly bigger impact than Marks and Spencers 100% cotton socks, here are five charities who offer ways you can give something life-changing, without spending a fortune.

Introduction to SEO So what’s it all about? Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of your website in a search engine’s natural (unpaid) search results for a particular query. In the example below, typing the query ‘buy chandelier’ into the search engine Google returns 3 websites in a pink box – homebase.co.uk, oceanlighting.co.uk and lightinthebox.com. These companies have bid to appear at the top of

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In the beginning Not so long ago, our very own Andy stumbled across a Twitter post written by the accredited photographer Damien Lovegrove of Lovegrove Consulting.  Damien was looking to find a good web design team to develop a suitable online platform for his Evolve group of wedding photographers.  Of course we were quick to respond, and jumped at the chance to work with such a talented photographer. Damien received many

After months of research, meetings and a bit of hard graft – we are pleased to announce that Angel SEO is to work with the well know skate brand DuFFS. It all began some time ago when Dave and Sharon pitched an idea to Alex Hall, CEO at DuFFS. Yes it was quite a drive from Nottingham to DuFFS HQ in beautiful Yatesbury – but worth it all the same!

If you have a telecoms company and you’re looking to market online, this article will give you some inspiration – based on a case study of one of the highest ranked telecoms websites in Google for the UK

Summary: This article looks at RDFa, Resource Description Framework in attributes, and how you can utilise it for better results in Google. Firstly, what is RDFa? RDFa stands for ‘Resource Description Framework in attributes’. It allows you to mark certain information within your web pages so that Google knows what that information is. The results are called ‘rich snippets’. Let’s start with an example: <div xmlns:v=”http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org/#” typeof=”v:Person”> My name is

Summary: When setting up a website (or rebuilding one), you may have considered using a website templating system.  This article considers the merits of templating systems and looks at one such system, SMARTY. If your website has a lot of content, chances are, it’s database driven.  You might have a fair amount of code, perhaps php, scattered around your pages, for connecting to the database and retrieving content.  That’s the

Summary: A business with a .uk domain name that Nominet looks after cannot opt out of having their address published on whois. From time to time, as a website owner, you might come across another website where you want to contact the owner. For example, you might find a site that’s copied your content, misquoted you or is even impersonating your company. You want to take action – you run

It’s common knowledge that Google’s release of Caffeine impacted how your site speed affects your rankings.  Faster sites rank better.  Google is focusing on user experience as always – good quality content, good navigation, not too many images and now, page load time. If you’re an Adwords user, you may or may not know that your page load time affects not only your rankings in Google but also your quality

10th August 2010 at 9:00 am by Dave Cain Summary: There are merits to using WordPress – it takes care of a lot of your SEO. But if you’re about to make the choice, read this article and make sure it’s really the right option for you. Without doubt, WordPress makes many SEO tasks easy. Using brilliant plug ins like All in One SEO pack, you can type up your