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I get asked this all the time: 'Steve can you recommend someone to help implementing the optimisation work you have recommended?' Such requests happen typically when the projects are small and ...
(Filed in Blog, May 9th, 2006)

E-consultancy publishes SEO Best Practice Guide

The E-consultancy SEO Best Practice Guide is perhaps the most ambitious attempt to document search engine optimization best practice to date. It is over 200 pages of A4 detail ...
(Filed in Blog, May 3rd, 2006)

Snake Oil from UKReg/Fasthosts

UKReg / Fasthosts email claim, below, has to be this year's dodgiest fear-factor sales tactic regarding Google's algorithm... so far, at least. Many of us in the UK have been ...
(Filed in Blog, April 25th, 2006)

Google Reaches 75% in UK

Latest Hitwise report and data on Google's search penetration (April 2006): "Google continues to dominate the search market in the UK, powering 74.8% of all UK internet searches for ...
(Filed in Blog, April 24th, 2006)

April 20th, 2006

It's okay I'm still alive: Google eBook to be published in paperback Random House UK have signed me up to write an expanded paperback version of my '50 Ways to ...
(Filed in Blog, April 20th, 2006)

January 5th, 2006

Happy New Year: Happy New Google eBook. After much faffing around I can finally present my Google eBook: 50 Ways to Make Google Love Your Web Site. It has ...
(Filed in Blog, January 5th, 2006)

Google Analytics arrives and it’s FREE!!!

Google's purchase of Urchin earlier this year had me thinking this would be an obvious fit with Adwords, to enable more comprehensive conversion tracking. The surprise is that Google are ...
(Filed in Blog, November 14th, 2005)

Google eBook on the way…

Apologies for the radio silence over the last month. I have been busily documenting my approach to optimising web sites for Google and am almost at the point of publishing ...
(Filed in Blog, October 24th, 2005)

Googlebot doesn’t get images.

The answer to a recent question from one of my clients is worth passing on. Google's main indexing spider, the 'Googlebot' retrieves only the HTML that it finds for each ...
(Filed in Blog, September 20th, 2005)

Non-human traffic in web analytics

I was asked recently about bots, agents and non-human traffic breakdown in web statistics. My reply reminded me how critical it is to have an in-depth understanding of web analytics ...
(Filed in Blog, September 14th, 2005)