Keyword Research Tools – What Do You Use?

Keyword research is one of the first steps most people take when optimising a website in any niche. This research allows you to find out keywords that people search for that relate to the site you want to promote.

Using various tools can help you find more keywords to target. You can often find some great little gems that you wouldn’t usually think of that really are worth adding to your campaign. But with so many out there that all claim to have the most accurate information it’s difficult to finally settle on a list of keywords to use for your SEO campaign. So how can you be sure you’re targeting the right keywords? Continue reading

SEO Optimising WordPress Blogs & Websites

We all now know that WordPress is a very popular (and powerful) blogging platform that has a whole arsenal of features that can be tweaked and extended through their. Not to mention the fact that WordPress is open-source and can be tweaked to work in almost any way you want with the combination of coding tweaks and their many thousands of plugins.

So with such a flexible and powerful platform (one that doesn’t even need to be used for a blog!) it makes sense to make the most of it’s usefulness and ease of use as a business tool and take advantage of every opportunity to optimise your WordPress blog for the search engines. Continue reading

SEO Tools You Should Have Bookmarked

Whether you are just starting out with SEO or whether you are an experienced search engine consultant we all prefer automated tools – particularly when they are free. They just make our lives that little bit easier. By using these tools well we’re able to concentrate on what we do best and spend more time doing the more enjoyable areas of SEO.

So, without further introduction, here are some very useful tools you should consider to support your SEO work. Continue reading

Find Sites on the Same IP – Clever Bing

Have you ever wanted to know which other domains are hosted on the same web server as you or a competitor? There are tools that let you do this but require payment. Well, put your wallet (or purse) back in your pocket (or handbag/manbag) – you can now do it for free with Bing. And, it’s easy. Continue reading

Web Hosts Can Help Users Achieve Richer Sites with Google

You may remember recently reports of the launch of Google Services for Websites earlier this year. For those of you that didn’t know about this, Google Services for Websites was created and designed to help web hosters and access providers to easily offer powerful tools to their customers or webmasters to help enhance their websites and improve them.

The tools included around the time of the launch included Webmaster Tools, AdSense and Custom Search, aimed at helping website owners understand website and search performance, monetize their websites and improve the user experience. Going in the same vein, Google has recently rolled out more new tools to the program for all to take advantage of. Continue reading