Any link on the web is technically a “backlink” but the term is most often used in the context of SEO, in reference to the links pointing into a particular website, or web page within a web site.
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If you’ve been involved with SEO for your own sites or clients sites for any length of time, you’ll understand that the success you achieve is directly related to the tools you have at your disposal. We’ve been providing SEO services for clients and on our own sites for over 10 years now (I’m now …
If you’re in any SEO groups around the web, there has been chatter recently about ranking websites with just traffic. For years we’ve all been on about quality content and links. This has always made sense. If you build a website that has quality content, and then carefully build relevant and high quality backlinks, all …
Once you’ve got your e-commerce store up and running, and possibly ticking along nicely with traffic and sales, you’re probably going to want to start thinking about how to scale that traffic. Obviously scaling with paid traffic is an option, and is a good way to start bringing in more traffic immediately. SEO is certainly …
UPDATE 2019 – the article below was originally posted in 2013, and a lot of terminology and practices, particularly in SEO (do we even talk about PageRank any more? Remember those PR toolbars? Remember toolbars!?!), have moved on apace since then, but the general principles still hold true today… A lot of the time, when …
Blog commenting has always had it’s place in the tool box for an SEO. It has a bit of a chequered history, and recently (the last 2 or 3 years) the benefit they actually have to an SEO campaign has polarised much of the industry. Inherently a blog comment on a blog has a positive …
When I first started building websites and trying to improve rankings and generate traffic to them, I remember my mentor, and now business partner told me: “remember content and structure is always the most important part of any website” I’ve come a long way since first building a little site promoting sports videos. I was …
This is another of those SEO questions which we get asked periodically by our business customers, here at Silicon Dales. While the question is not always the same, it goes something like this: “Why do directories outrank our site?” or “Why do all these agency websites beat us in Google?” The short answer to this …
In our post completion SEO guide, and whenever people ask us how to improve their web presence, one of the things we recommend is adding a website to quality directories. The are two things to be aware of here, though, and one is included in that sentence: Quality. We recommend hand crafting your directory listing, …
