Came across this on YouTube today, an introduction to Wordpress blogging and comment moderating. Definitely worth a watch if you’re interested in starting a blog of your own - which I’d recommend, especially as part of a larger site. So long as a site’s blog is regularly updated it can really help the overall SEO, providing the search engines with fresh content to gobble up, and if the blog is on topic it’ll usually also provide opportunities for targetted cross linking. For example if your site deals with doll’s houses and you write a blog on the subject of miniature baths, you could link “miniature baths” through to a relevant page. I’ve even seen plugins that will automatically link mentions of specific keywords through to the relevant page on the site, making it even easier to take advantage of blog posting. Read more

Like the total blogging noob I am, I only just realised that nofollow was being applied to all the links I place to external sites in any posts - AS STANDARD!?! Of course, this just will not do! Read more

Shaun Anderson of Hobo SEO has written an excellent and very honest introduction to SEO. Well worth checking out for anyone who is looking for honest account of the whats and whys of SEO, but is tired of the mysterious approach many SEOs take.

I’ve begun to notice this increasingly in our industry - more transparency and less smoke and mirrors. This can only be a good thing, helping to legitimise our work and reduce the uncertainty regarding it.

A couple of weeks ago Julie Joyce, one of the SEO Chicks, tagged me to write a meme - 4 Ways to Improve the SEO Chicks blog. Of course, having been writing this blog for a whole 2 months, with a total of 13 posts, I am already a blogging master, and so they are right to ask my opinion. Indeed, it’s only taken me 16 days to get round to responding to the tag… when I’m as topical and on the ball as that, you just know you have to listen to what I have to say. So here goes…
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As of today this blog is ranking on the first page of Google UK for the term “Matt Davies”. Eat THAT, Matt Davies the fine artist, Matt Davies the cartoonist, Matt Davies the English researcher, Matt Davies the photographer,Dr Matt Davies the lecturer, Matt Davies CEO of Planet Earth Ltd and Matt Davies the UKIP candidate for Woking.

How does it taste, huh? I bet it tastes sour.

As an SEO, I’m obviously very interested in the traffic that the search engines deliver to any site that I work on. Using tracking systems such as Google Analytics and MyBlogLog I can track the queries used to reach these sites, and results for seotunes.co.uk have been interesting so far.

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Tonight was the night I’d been waiting for for some time - Broken Social Scene, back in the UK. As anyone who’s ever seen them live will tell you, they put on quite a show, and having seen them twice in the past I knew to look forward to an awesome night.
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Back to Academy 1 tonight for Athlete, who are promoting their new album, “Beyond the Neighbourhood”.

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The Coral are amazing. That point will, pretty much, be the focus of this review, so I thought I’d be best getting it out of the way first. Tonight was actually the 3rd time I’ve seen these guys live, so their amazing-ness isn’t exactly fresh news to me, but it’s still nice to get a reminder! Read more

Following on from yesterday’s musical troubles in the office, we’ve taken a different tack today - we’ve gone all 80s! And guess what - everyone loves it. All together now “I just called, to say…”.