You’ve spent longer than 30 minutes crafting a title tag. You tell your colleagues that it’s “all about TRAFFIC, not RANKINGS!”. Yet you are secretly as obsessed as they are. When you’re not at work you check rankings on you’re phone, making sure to go through a proxy to get desktop SERPS, naturally. You’ve been Read Blog…
24 Signs (You’ll Recognise) That You’ve Been Doing SEO Too Long
December 16th, 2011 by Jon
Content layout, optimisation and best practices
November 27th, 2011 by Wayne
Content layout and design With so many best SEO practices, one that I find seems to be over looked more often than most is the layout when designing your website. In order to optimise your site for search engines, the page content needs to be positioned so that the most important parts of the page Read Blog…
Google Experiment! Related Images Revamped
November 17th, 2011 by Stuart
Whilst browsing Google images I noticed a nice new feature Google are testing. The related searches seem to have changed from a rather boring set of hyperlinks to graphical drop down menus. The old related searches as shown below (click images to enlarge): Vs. The new related searches: Mouse over suggestions and it reveals a Read Blog…
What Is Classed As Hidden Content And What Isn’t?
November 15th, 2011 by Andrew
Hidden content (or cloaked content) used to be a favourable black-hat technique. It generally involves showing content to Google that is optimised with keywords (or even stuffed with keywords) and not showing it to the user. This is normally done with a user-agent check against the visitor and then the output is manipulated server-side in Read Blog…
SEO stories to read at midnight (The S is for ‘SCARY’)
October 31st, 2011 by Davide
This time of year we at SEO Consult enjoy nothing more than a good fright, and what’s more horrifying than a scary SEO story? So, strap yourself in for a white-knuckle ride of terror!! The Canonical Cannibal! Late one cold evening little Timmy decided to check his sites ranking in Google. After what felt like Read Blog…
Improve your sites performance using the html 5 boilerplate.
September 29th, 2011 by Mike M
There are many metrics that increase a site’s speed and because users are expecting bigger and better things from a websites UI it is only increasing, in terms of a user viewing your page if it doesn’t load quickly enough they will be gone and your bounce rate will increase. So what can you do Read Blog…
New Design for Google Instant Preview
September 22nd, 2011 by Davide
Here are SEO Consult we’ve noticed that Google are experimenting with the look and feel of Instant Preview. The feature, which was implemented last year, displays an instant preview of the selected search result right there in the window. As you can see it is the same in terms of functionality, although we think Read Blog…
What exactly has changed with the Google URL parameter handling section?
July 25th, 2011 by Peter
Back in September 2009, Google launched the parameter handling section within Google Web Master Tools. Dynamic parameters can cause multiple URLs pointing to the same content (duplicate content), the URL parameter handling section was setup to assist with preventing fewer duplicate URLS and to aid more efficient crawling. If you’ve never seen this section before, Read Blog…
