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Sticking firmly in on page seo territory, I regularly link out to other quality relevant pages on other websites where possible and where a human would find it valuable. (more…)

We've recently updated our comments policy and increased the number of comments a visitor has to make to get seo friendly links in comment signatures to reward long term readers and make it a bit harder for dofollow spammers ;) - I told you dofollow spamming wasn't a long term strategy....

I’ll lay down my thoughts on internal link optimisation later in this seo tutorial, but onpage, I link internal to relevant pages in my site all the time. (more…)

(K9) The short answer to this is – no. There is no one-size-fits-all keyword density, no optimal percentage. (more…)

I get asked this all the time – how much text do you put on a page to rank for a certain keyword? Well, as in so much of SEO theory and strategy, there is no optimal amount of text per page. (more…)

I can’t find any definitive proof online that says you need to use Heading Tags (H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6) or that they improve rankings in Google, and I have seen pages do well in Google without them – but I do use them, especially the H1 tag on the page. For me it’s another piece of a perfect page, in the traditional sense, and I try to build a site for Google and humans. (more…)

OK – So I’ve theorised about the Title Element, the Meta Description Tag and the pointless (IMO) Meta Keywords tag.

The only other Meta Tag I am interested in, generally, is when I am trying to control which pages (at a page level) are indexed, or which external links are to be counted by Google as links – useful to stay within their guidelines in some cases. The Robots Meta Tag;

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Like the title element and unlike the meta keywords tag, this one is important, both from a human and search engine perspective. (more…)

Ahh, a bastian of crap and unethical seo companies – the meta-keywords tag! How many crap seo companies mention cleaning and optimising this tag in their presentations? Companies that waste time on these waste clients money. (more…)

I’m keeping these 1 A Day SEO Tips in July quick and simple – and again, this is just my preference, backed up with observations I’ve made over the last few years I’ve been learning / practicing seo. This is the stuff people ask me on a daily basis at my seo company – What Is The Best Title Tag For Google?

<title>What Is The Best Title Tag For Google?</title>

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SEO TIPS I thought it would be cool to post an on-site seo tip a day (weekdays of course ) over the course of July, so the first one will be posted later today, with a new one posted every day after until the end of July.

Update – Recently we updated this article here – Learn DIY SEO.

Update – Our DIY SEO guide has been updated: Go to Learn Search Engine Optimisation Basics

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