I’ve set myself an SEO challenge. To get one of my sites into the Google top ten for a major keyword generating one million searches per month. The keyword is D&D, or Dungeons & Dragons to use its full name, the role-playing game produced by Wizards of the Coast D&D is a favourite among young, [...]
Current Projects
The focus of my SEO activities of recent months has been two sites, one focused on role-playing games. The other Herge’s Tintin and the new film that is being made of his adventures. The role-playing games site is on the surface a blog about role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons. A lot of the [...]
Domain Name Searches
Blogstorm has a interesting article on how people accidently search for URLs. For example, searching for www.google.com instead of typing the URL into their browser’s navigation bar. Its an interesting approach and I’m sure it gets traffic but it is from the Get Rich Quick side of the SEO industry. Real wealth comes from a [...]
Blog Design
Web design and SEO go hand-in-hand though a good looking design doesn’t mean good SEO it at least means that visitors will find your site appealing. Smashing Magazine have done a survey of top blogs to see what sort of design trends can be spotted. It well worth the read for design tips because these [...]
Web Design Advice
It never ceases to amaze me how many web sites are badly designed, not just for SEO but for usability and graphical impact. Even big, expensive sites make basic errors in commonsense design such as having text overlaid on a graphic making it hard to read. The subject of SEO web site design is very [...]
Great Tips for Optimizing an Existing Site
SEOmoz has a great round-up of tips for doing SEO on an existing web site. Let Google Analytics run for two weeks before doing any SEO – This allows analytics to collect data and provides you with a baseline. I recommend you screen capture the relevant pages so you can show your client how your [...]
Content is the Only Thing That Matters
“What is Google’s strategy? To provide their users with the best, most relevant results to their queries.If your business doesn’t align with Google’s strategy, then Google doesn’t want to help you.” From: essons from the Domain Roundtable. The message is clear. If you want to optimize your web site, learn to create quality content.
Content Is King
One of the basic premises of Friendly Affordable SEO is that unless you have something on your web site worth visiting, any SEO is wasted. I’m not the only one who thinks this. The bottom line is that you or your company need to become an expert on the topic of your site, and you [...]
Welcome to Friendly Affordable SEO
Hello and welcome to my new web site and blog all about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is seen by many as a black art, expensive, difficult and only usable by large corporations or evil spammers trying to trick Google. Nothing is further from the truth. SEO is easy to do, it costs nothing (though [...]
“Britney Spears”, “Sex” and “SEO”
What the Experts can Teach Us about SEO with Britney and Sex My Mother told me that the best way to learn something new was to watch people who were already very good at it. So when I needed to learn how to get my website ranked in the top ten results on Google I [...]
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