Pimp Up Your Pinterest Campaign

Pinterest is the current scapbooking drug of choice for millions of users sharing images across the globe.  Pinterest is a content sharing service that allows members to “pin” images, videos and other objects to their pinboards whilst allowing others to view and interact with them. What many don’t realise is how Pinterest can also be used […]

RAD SEO Selected to Partner Leading Cambridge Digital Agency

We are delighted at RAD SEO to have been chosen as the search engine optimisation (SEO) partner by creative Cambridge Web Design & Advertising Agency Stanton Shallcross. The RAD SEO team will apply our SEO skills and knowledge to a number of interesting and challenging web development projects that Stanton Shallcross has on the go […]

Have your cake and eat it, Google Traitor

Ok, so maybe this story isn’t quite as dramatic as the storyline suggests but earlier today a Google employee did get a tasty little traitor treat from his search king colleagues.

What is ‘Not Provided’ in Google Analytics?

For the majority of webmasters, Google Analytics is the number one tool used to analyse your site’s traffic.  If you keep an eye on the details then you may have seen “(not provided)” popping up as the number one listing in the Keywords section of your Traffic Sources Overview.  This is coming up more often […]

The Benefits of an XML Sitemap

Have you heard the term xml sitemap and not sure what it means or you are using an xml sitemap and not sure why? When searching for SEO beginners training guides and advice from the web there tends to be a focus on meta data and adding keywords into content. Although this is of course […]

Top Tips for Optimising YouTube Video

One important part of SEO is publishing plenty of content and making sure that content is optimised to be found in the search engines. Content is most often looked at as the written words we see on pages but this can also be implemented in videos. So if you have been asking yourself “how do […]

Google Penguin is Back to Bite SEO Companies

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Online marketing executives, webmasters and SEO practitioners take note – experts are saying that SEO will be taking a big hit with the upcoming Google Penguin update. Speaking last week at the SES San Francisco conference, Google’s Search Quality superhero Matt Cutts said that the update would be “jarring and jolting” for SEO marketing practitioners […]

Digital marketing for Local Restaurants

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These days, so much marketing happens on the web and with search engine optimisation and SEO; if you’re not a heavy internet user, you might still be thinking that television and radio is where most businesses find their customers: not true. Not only is the internet a great way to send a message, it’s also […]

The SEO Story For This Century (2000 – 2012)

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Since the start of the century SEO has been rewarding to content-rich web developers and punishing for weak content writers trying to game the system with shortcuts. Through this evolution came new terms in webmaster lexicography such as “white hat” and “black hat.” White hat SEO has come to reflect techniques of content writers who […]

Links Are More Influential Than Social Signals

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You can’t argue with the voice of Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam if he is offering Google ranking tips. He was recently interviewed at SMX Advanced by Danny Sullivan. He gives a brief insight into web links versus social signals. Matt outlines at present that links are still a more powerful factor than […]

What to look for if hiring an SEO consultant

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I was asked a few interesting questions recently when speaking to a new contact with regards to SEO requirements.  Some of these questions are just the norm when it comes to experience but they threw a few in that made me question their reasons for them.  When I asked them what the reasons were they didn’t […]

Don’t Get Ripped Off For Search Engine Submission

I wanted to write a post to let small businesses and those with new websites know why you do not need to be ripped off by SEO sharks offering to MASS Submit your website to copious amounts of search engines.  I see this type of service being offered just about every day and on so many […]