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.
As you’re here browsing our SEO tutorials, you may be interested in checking out our SEO services, including our SEO Adelaide, Australia, services.
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!
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.
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.
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Scroll down below to see our tutorials. The most recently updated are listed nearest the top.
If you’d just like us to work on your site instead, contact Silicon Dales today.
Ever checked your website speed using GTmetrix, Pingdom, PageSpeed or Yslow… or any of the other many and various latest and greatest speed checking tools? ***2021 update: take a look at Lighthouse Well, if you have, you might have come across a request to “leverage browser caching…” or similar. What does “Leverage Browser Caching” actually …
Depending on where you live in the world, “couponing” is popular. In the USA, using a coupon to purchase a product or service is a normal way of shopping. Elsewhere around the world they may be known as promotional codes or discount codes. Wherever you are, they are a very popular way of reducing costs …
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 …
A number of people have asked us this question over the years, particularly since we have placed a couple of really popular websites into the highly popular news search engine that Google has: Google News. On several websites we have designed and built the backend processes which tell Google News what to index. Specifically, this …
One of the strategies that has really become important for our clients is the ability to add reviews to their website (and by extension star ratings), that show up in the search result listings. They way we achieve this is by using Schema. Using schema markup code has a number of benefits, and having star …
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 …
Towards the end of 2017, I became increasingly intrigued with Shopify. The main reason I first decided to see what all the fuss was about was that there were so many Facebook ads popping up in my feed about “making your first million with Shopify”, and “explode your shopify profits with Facebook ads” etc. Why …
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 …
One of the typical oversights we see with many e-commerce stores, and generally with potential customers who ask us to help them generate more traffic and sales, is the lack of identity, or what we consider an “entity”. It’s generally an oversight as many webmasters considers an entity be relevant only to serviced types businesses …
