Archive for the ‘SEO Rant/Home Truth’ Category

(SMO) Smoke & Mirrors Online, or a good source of online business?

Being a passionate member of the SEM community, I speak with people on a regular basis about SEO, PPC, Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google +). More and more often, I hear from people who have been pitched by businesses claiming to be able to optimise social media campaigns. Now I ask myself – if [...]

Yell or SEO?

As a 24 year old you may say i am too young to remember the days when if you needed anything you could find it in yell, although you can still find everything you need in yell, are your customers actually looking there? I have been wanting to right this blog for a long time [...]

Grey Hat SEO! No thank you!!!!!

Well I have just had an interesting conversation …. An ambitious lad phoned the office today and asked if he could free-lance for us! The pitch went like this … As you know white hat techniques take too long and are too tedious and don’t get results like I can, I my self-border on black [...]

SEO Link snobbery….

Recently we have been contacted by several web design companies and other large SEO companies who require our link building services as they do not have the capability to pull off what we can in-house. We also pitched a SEO company who said our type of links are not good enough for them and they [...]

16% rise in SEO spend last year, are you paying too much for your SEO?

Today Saw the release of last years figures, so the country as a whole spent £436million, thats a rise of 16% on the previous year, With me having a keen interest in these stats i did my own research and got a quote from every single seo company possible(some didn’t get back to me) i used the same website and the same keywords, after a lot of time reading through flowery proposal after flowery proposal and reading all the sales speel , i managed to get a good average on price i was quite shocked, the quote i asked for was for www.arbelectricians.co.uk using the keywords electricians Manchester and 4 alternatives, the average price was£640.00, call me mad but for a small electrical firm in manchester £640 was a bit steep,

I think I might make a list of the best SEO companies in our opinion…

The list would be determined on the following criteria; 1. How much hard work they do for the client? 2. Ethical practice (e.g. they dont outsource work to other companies or use paid links)? 3. Have their sales staff have direct experience of actually running a online business? 4. Results they have attained for ALL [...]

Seismic activity in the SEO Industry….bring it on!

Over the past 3 months there as been seismic activity occurring in the world of SEO. As a company, it is our policy to never boast about our own abilities, and many people in the industry may look at us and think who are these guys to give us advice when they are on page [...]