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Natural Ranks Branches Out!
Natural Ranks has extended its North West locations with a new office in Lancaster. You can find us at: The Storey Creative Industries Centre Meeting House Lane Lancaster LA1 1TH
Position 1 on Google for “classic car insurance”
Yes, thats right, No 1! After 6 months working on the Footman James website we gained them a top spot ranking for their most competitive keyterm.
All’s fair in love and SEO
It was my recent pleasure to be interviewed by the Smarta Entrepreneurial Network for a piece on Search Engine Optimisation. All’s fair in Love and SEO has now been published and it written by Emma Haslett. When Smarta discovered its name had been the subject of an AdWords campaign by a competitor, Emma Haslett felt [...]
Liverpool Business Fair – SEO Presentation
Here’s the presentation for the Liverpool Business Association. Drive more traffic to your website View more presentations from naturalranks. Some points which came up in the Q&A: Meta Title & Meta Description are still used by the Search Engines – make them unique to your site and every page within your site Meta Keywords are [...]
Federation of Small Businesses – Search Engine Optimisation Presentation
Here’s the presentation for the Federation of Small Businesses. Drive more traffic to your website View more presentations from naturalranks. A few points from the Q&A Web directories can be found by search for “your_niche directory” in Google Most directories are free, some will require a reciprocal link (I wouldn’t bother with these) Here’s a [...]
Striding Out on the Web – the morning after
Last night’s talk for Striding Out was brilliant! A real success. Thoroughly enjoyed the experience and I hope you, the attendee, enjoyed it to! As promised, here are the slides from last nights talk: Striding Out on the Web View more presentations from naturalranks. A couple of points which cropped up in Q&A: I value [...]
How to make your business stand out on the web – Updated!
On Monday 16th Wednesday 18th March I’ll be giving a short talk on some of the things you can do to set your business apart from the other search results. The event is being held in conjunction with Striding Out Business Support Services in Liverpool and is free to attend. There will also be plenty [...]
Google is Dominant!
As a search engine optimiser I often find myself using words like “optimising for Google” “increasing your Google rankings” “your google position has increased” You may be wondering why I refer everything towards Google and not search engines in general? Well the answers simple… In the UK, Google search properties (Google.co.uk and Google.com) accounted for [...]
Is your website invisible to the search engines?
If you aren’t receiving the level of search traffic you would like, here’s a very easy test that you can conduct to find out how your site is viewed by the search engines. It’ll take less than five minutes to conduct and could shed-light on some issues that would otherwise be invisible to you. An [...]
Top Tips for Search Engine Friendly Web Design
Good SEO starts with a well built site. A site which looks the part might not necessarily be the part. Search Engines want to be able to get to the bits of content which mean something as quickly and easily as possible. the cleaner your code is the better! 1. HTML Code Compliance A good [...]