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SEO Moz still give a plus for use of bold/strong/italic use. My view is to use it sparingly.

I use the pro version. It tracks Google.co.uk rankings on a fairly reliable basis.

GKY45,

Don't go down the plugin route. There are now a number of Wordpress designs that offer responsive web design such as Skeleton. See Google's recommendations here:...

Sujan,
Check that you still have "administrator" status. If you have "user" status you're unable to inspect or change goals and funnels.

I know this thread is four weeks old. However, if you live in the Uk consider Brighton SEO. Takes place in April. 55 miles from London. Very much about real SEO people. And its free!

For reasonably optimised websites its difficult to distinguish ranking changes caused by normal fluctuations and those caused by updates such as the latest Panda.

If your blog has real value its worth paying for the paid version of Askimet.

I'm not sure the blockers work without slowing down your phone.

I don't believe Google reads much of the javascript code. As a rule I use descriptive file names, titles and alt tags. Don't forget Google (and Bing) image search delivers traffic. In addition, in...

Although WordPress, Joomla et al ere convenient I still find lean, clean hand coded pages are easier to rank. The problem is that most sites are too large to warrant hand coding.

I've just carried out a staudy on a sample of 15 UK-based sites. The average of "not provided" search was 23.6% in August. Up from 12.6% in March. This has major implications for the longer term....

Its my first visit to Web Pro News for a while. Its amazing how there's still so much misinformation being passed around as definitive approaches to SEO. The Penguin update/s appears to have given...

Apart from the above:

1. Change the language tag to en-gb
2. Generate links from .co.uk domains
3. Put a UK address tag with postcode onto the site
4. Claim your Google place/Google+ business...

I've been asked to sort out some links a client put in without my knowledge. But I've yet to asked to remove any links we've put in.

Quality links from topic related sites. I guess there's always some quid pro quo. But avoid direct reciprocity. Secondly avoid a concentration of links from any particular category. The people that...

Ristenk,
What these people, and others like them, are offering is not that different from what Blogger and wordpress have been offering for years. Sure, anybody can make a free website. And even...

I'd recommend a spread of sites and pages. Lots of links from one location may well boost your toolbar PageRank but I'm not sure it would do much for your actual rankings.

Based on our expereince I'd agree with Regan. 30 seconds retains a high level of interest. 2 minutes is self indulgent.

I'm sure there are strategies for coping with both approaches. If you're talking about three similar, topic related, phrases you could accommodate them on the same page. If they're completely...

I'd agree that old copyright dates may look bad. But I'm sure that they're way down the priority list unless freshness is core to your business.

I've optimised pages in excess of 1 meg. I don't think its Google that's the problem. Its really a question on usability. With mobile growing rapidly I'd worry more about the lack of bandwidth that...

In the UK we are effectively left with two search engines - Google and Bing. By optimising for Google you will also pick up visitors from Bing.

In my view there's a hierarchy.

1. The content on the site
2. The anchor text that links to the site
3. The content of sites that link to the site
4. The anchor text of sites that link to the...

The UK Government realised that the 2011 summer rioters were using Blackberry BB, Facebook and Twitter to coordinate their activities. In essence many of the rioters were merely using these devices...

It all depends on the market category. I haven't found Twitter useful for anything but linking between various social media properties - e.g. LinkedIn and a current news story. However, I know...