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SEO Tutorials
SEO Tutorials to help you make the most of your search engine ranking. These tips won’t make your horse drink, but they will take the horse closer to where the water is.
We post tutorials regularly, when we feel these will be helpful to the business and development community at large. This is our way of contributing more to Open Source and helping businesses to “raise their game”. To take it to the next level, if you’d like us to just do it for your business, consider hiring Silicon Dales for your next SEO project.
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Please note these are aimed at medium sizes businesses and up, and therefore, they won’t suit every visitor to our website. We think those who aren’t quite at the point where there’s value in paying for professional and enterprise grade SEO services, can benefit from our advice… scroll down and read on if that sounds like you!
Not about gaming Google – for us
At Silicon Dales, our form of Search Engine Optimization focuses very squarely on delivering a quality site for your users. Not following some “next big thing” tactic, but instead making sure your website is as useful and relevant as possible for your visitors.
Make it fast & please your users
This means a website which is fast; has good page titles; contains sufficient information to be useful; and in general, making your website a rich experience that your visitors love and will visit again and again because its so gosh darned useful.
Now, with that caveat to one side, it is worth saying that there are some time honoured tactics you can use to make the most of your search engine rankings. This is not rocket science, but it is a science: following evidence to make adjustments and be better at search.
For WordPress clients, we offer two market leading speed optimization services:
View our SEO Tutorials below
Scroll down below to see our tutorials. The most recently updated are listed nearest the top.
Contact us to SEO your website
If you’d just like us to work on your site instead, contact Silicon Dales today.
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