It’s a New Year, and as a result people all around the world are making and breaking the resolutions they set themselves as they aim to have a more fulfilling or healthier 2012. It seemed fitting then, to write a blog about a set of New Year’s resolutions that apply to the SEO fraternity – to Read Blog…
SEO New Year’s Resolutions
January 8th, 2012 by Rory
Even Google isn’t safe from penalisation from Google
January 6th, 2012 by Rory
In the first few days of 2012, the SEO community has gathered to give a great big collective Nelson Muntz-ian ‘HA-HA’ directly in the face of Google as they ended up having to penalise themselves for violating their own guidelines. In a seemingly misjudged advertising campaign, Google purchased some video ads publicising their Chrome browser. Read Blog…
How to use the Robots.txt folder
December 23rd, 2011 by Rory
I’ve written recently about the issue of cloaking in SEO and how it could potentially earn a website penalisation in the search engine results pages. There are numerous ways to segment content delivery, such as creating content in unspiderable formats (although this is becoming less of an option as the spiders learn to crawl content in Read Blog…
2011: A Year in Search
December 21st, 2011 by Rory
There can be no doubt that 2011 has been a bumper year for search engine optimisation. So, I thought it might be nice to do a nice little summary of all they key events that have occurred for SEO during the year. Enjoy SEO Consult’s annual SEO round-up for 2011! Just use the chart below to navigate Read Blog…
SEO Consult’s Big Fat SEO Quiz 2011
December 20th, 2011 by Rory
2011 has been a brilliant year for SEO, and the industry has made some incredible progress over the past 12 months. So, I thought it might be fun to do a little quiz about search engine optimisation and other related subjects that will test how closely you have kept up-to-date with developments in 2011. Good luck…and Read Blog…
Evergreen Social Media Marketing tips
December 13th, 2011 by Rory
Social Media Marketing is becoming increasingly important for modern businesses, and there are several reasons for this. Firstly, social media activity is becoming intrinsically valuable to search engine optimisation because Google uses social data as a metric to determine the quality of a piece of content – they work on the assumption that if it generates Read Blog…
The Definitive Guide to Cloaking (With a little help from Matt Cutts)
December 7th, 2011 by Rory
Recently, Google’s Head of Webspam, Matt Cutts produced a great video that he called, ‘the definitive guide to cloaking.‘ It’s well worth a watch for all SEOs or website owners who are worried that they might be operating in a high risk area, or violating Google’s quality guidelines by cloaking, or doing what Google deems to Read Blog…
Designing for SEO – 3 useful tips
December 1st, 2011 by Stuart
Most of my SEO clients already have an existing site. It is my job to take what I am given and do my very best to ensure that it starts ranking well for the chosen keywords. Normally this would entail at the very least, changing Metas, adding some relevant content and keyword placement. The problem Read Blog…









