Search Engine Optimisation can be both tricky and time consuming. Unfortunately you can't just submit your website to a search engine and expect to get people visiting your website regularly. Search Engine Optimisation is all about improving the visibility of a website, and it's thought that the higher up a website link appears on a search, the more traffic they will get to their website. Specialists in Search Engine Optimisation will consider how search engines work and whether they will...

Google is gearing up to take on the likes of Facebook and Twitter with the revelation of its new social network Google+. Google has taken several services that are already available to use on the internet and has allegedly made them better. Features include 'instant uploads,' 'hangouts,' 'circles' and 'sparks' - an application that sends out information to you once you have saved certain topics of interest. Google has already caused much controversy with the refusal to allow users to...

Search engines such as Google rank websites in a dynamic order when you search for a term.  Getting your website placed on Google (or any other search engine such as Bing or Yahoo) is free which leads to people trying to get the top ranking when certain keywords are searched for.  Competition for popular search phrases has become common-place as more traffic can be gained from higher listings, and as we al know, more traffic equals more money.  Search engine optimization...

With over 80% of people in the UK using Google.co.uk for their main search engine, the practice of SEO is mainly based around Google’s reported ranking factors.  Google SEO now involves creation of content, structuring of data and popularity from other sites usually with HTML links.  Google are wise to search engine tactics which try and skew the results to show a website highly; each trick the spammers use to fool Google in time get eradicated with updates to the ranking...

When it comes to pleasing search engines for SEO, nothing hits the spot more than some uniquely written content.  Content (words) are mainly what a search engine can see when crawling a website, images, scripts and other browser tricks are ignored mainly, the focus is on the content and what the page is about.  Copywriters have sprung up in the last 10 years to write blog and website content to improve a site’s SEO power.  SEO copywriting has a few pitfalls, especially if...

SEO is a relatively new niche marketplace, one that many people do not understand or want to deal with time-wise.  The process of optimising a website so it appears higher in Google has become a big money maker for some web-savvy SEO companies worldwide.  As with many early industries, SEO has become full of many ‘cowboy’ optimisers, companies which don’t really know how to perform SEO, but ones which can talk the lingo and sell to clueless website owners....