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 [...]
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 [...]