Some more SEO wisdom from Homer
When they created Homer Simpson, they were really tapping into something that has been the basis of comedy writing for centuries; the babbling, unthinking idiot whose plans fail for lack of...
View ArticleSpamtastic: there’s more to fear than Google
SEO could be said to concentrate on Google a little too much sometimes. This focus can blind site owners to their real audience: internet users. Being blinded by the sparkle of Google’s shiny, shiny...
View Article5 ways to wrong-foot your website audience
One of the many pieces of advice SEO gurus always give is ‘please your audience.’ It’s easy enough to say, but very hard to do. A good way to figure out how to meet the needs of your audience is to...
View ArticleIs your server hurting your rankings?
Search engine optimisation doesn’t just involve the SEO jobs directly attached to your website. Sometimes, the most pedestrian aspects of running a website can contribute to a rankings dive. The...
View ArticleHow to make a complete hash of your SEO
It is that time of the year again, as we rush headlong into Christmas and the New Year, that “top lists of the year” do the rounds. Always interesting and a great way to put off that work that the boss...
View ArticleDiversification could ruin company SEO
A recent study completed on behalf of the Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA) has found that companies are diversifying their agency partnerships. However, with coherency being all important to SEO,...
View ArticleSomerset school includes lessons in social media
Pupils at a Somerset school are now being given lessons in social media and how to use it in a safe and legal manner. Lessons about using the internet and social media usually fall within the Personal,...
View ArticleTweet claims two victims as high profile blogger is outraged by sexist comment
A woman who took offence to a conversation by two delegates at a programmer’s conference has been fired for inappropriately tweeting about the incident. Despite the fact Adria Richards, a...
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Twitter claims another political victim
Another day and another figure in the public eye goes to the wall after a terminal case of Twitter insanity. Labour election candidate Stuart MacLennan insulted several high profile political figures...
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5 reasons your SEO sucks
Whether you’ve employed a professional search engine optimisation company, or if you’ve simply learnt SEO for yourself, it doesn’t necessarily mean that your website’s SEO is first rate and enough to...
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Become a better SEO through sharing knowledge
In the SEO community, some professional SEOs like to play their cards very close to their chest with regards to what details they share with clients, and even other members of their staff. The fear...
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How to get rid of nasty slugs
As we head towards the summer, one of the biggest problems facing people in the UK is slugs. If left to their own devices, slugs can invade your nice new patch and undo all of your good efforts –...
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Nice SEO, shame about the website
This week I was searching the Internet for a suitable locksmith, and Googled such phrases as ‘locksmiths in Manchester’. SEO competition for this phrase, and related phrases, was quiet fierce and some...
View ArticleAre you scared of success?
This week I watched a TV program on unemployment in the UK, Panorama on BBC 1, that followed the fortunes of four unemployed teenagers over the period of a few years. Two of the teenagers looked for...
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Is your website’s content easy to read?
Every industry has its fair share of jargon, the sort of business buzzwords that people from outside of the industry probably wouldn’t understand. The SEO industry for example is famous for jargon,...
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Flash! A-ah – Stopper of the SEO
Altogether now… Flash a-ah – Saviour of the Universe! Ah, Flash Gordon. One of the best comic book movies ever made (and we’ll have words with anyone that says otherwise) but while Flash may have been...
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…and we also offer SEO
One of the biggest problems about finding a reputable SEO company is that generally anyone is able to offer SEO services. You don’t need training, experience, qualifications or indeed any knowledge...
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SEO on a Flash site is like modding a chav car
We wrote a post recently about how Flash (Gordon) was very bad for SEO in the sense that Flash websites are difficult for Google to index and their content isn’t as visible. Now – you are of course...
View ArticleWe are interested to increase traffic to your website
If you have ever read that sentence before, the chances are you have received a spam email from a less than credible company offering their SEO services. Emails such as this are sent to businesses...
View ArticleShould I delete pages on my website?
One of the most important ranking factors on a website is the physical size of the website itself. The more pages it has (assuming those pages are full of quality, unique content of course), the more...
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Why SEO is like building a house
While it may be true that you can achieve overnight success with search engine optimisation, this isn’t the norm and shouldn’t be counted on. You can’t expect to do a little SEO on your website and...
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An excellent example of how not to SEO
Sometimes, it’s the most unexpected things that set you on the wrong path with the search engines. It might be a badly written piece of code, an old and long-forgotten link or a page that fails to...
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BA Pilots make Facebook mistake
Despite a wave of high profile Facebook mistakes since the social networking website first launched, people are still commenting publically about things that really should stay private. Two pilots for...
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The secret strategy of SEO
Search engine optimisation is a complex process, one that experts have been studying and working on for more than a decade. At times it almost seems like a complicated game of chess, with SEO pros...
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BP attempts reputation management over oil spill
BP is currently the most hated company in America due to the oil spill that is still gushing gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Of course, when you have managed to inflict that much damage to the...
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Are you still paying for links?
Nothing in the world of SEO can be simply created and left alone permanently. Even leaving something for a year before checking on it is a risky thing to do. The search engine optimisation industry,...
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Check your code for SEO mistakes
Did you know that errors in your site’s code could be getting in between your website and the ranking you deserve? Efficient coding is essential when it comes to communication with the search engines....
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SEO is just copy and paste!
Looking around the Internet at some websites and their approach to SEO, it becomes clear that some people think SEO is just a matter of copy and paste, or CTRL+C and CTRL+V (as web developers like to...
View ArticleSpam SEO email from ‘SEO Doctors’
Most website owners have received spam emails claiming to have come from SEO professionals wanting to ‘improve their rankings in the search engines’, and usually they’re very easy to spot. Most of...
View ArticleHow can you damage your reputation online?
Damage to your online reputation requires a great deal of reputation management to put right. Once something has gone wrong and blogs and forums start cropping up all over the Internet, filled with...
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BBC labels Facebook users as ‘saddos’
When you design a new website it’s common to fill the pages with temporary text, text that will be replaced before the website actually goes live. Usually this is done by using Latin text, so that it’s...
View ArticleImpatience kills good SEO
Impatience is one of the biggest things to conquer in terms of search engine optimisation. It can be hard for site owners who are new to SEO to understand the long-term nature of the game. It’s doubly...
View ArticleDon’t sacrifice quality for speed
The internet is a fast-paced world. Regardless of whether you run an award-winning blog, an online retail site or just advertise your business through your website, you’re going to have to move at a...
View ArticleAlways optimise title tags for SEO
Titles have an important place in search engine optimisation. The titles on your page tend to attract a lot of attention, both from Internet users and from search engine spiders. The same goes for your...
View ArticleHow to know when your keywords are wrong
When you start a new business, it’s important to first conduct market research into the potential business to see whether it is a viable enterprise. You need to look at the size of the market, the...
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Pride and prejudice… and web designers
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy It is a universally acknowledged truth that a web designer in possession of some HTML skills and a rough idea of SEO is in want of whatever SEO jobs are going. Take the...
View ArticleHow to tell when someone knows nothing about SEO
SEO is something of an enigma; there are no formal qualifications in it, you can’t learn it in a school and you don’t need any training, or even prior knowledge of it before offering it as a service....
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Don’t get Sherlocked out of an SEO fee
Anyone who has been watching the new BBC series ‘Sherlock’, from Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, will know that everything’s all too easy for Sherlock Holmes. He comes in, glances around a room and...
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Why a fixed fee to SEO your website spells danger
If you were approached by someone offering you financial advice, business advice, legal advice or even medical advice, you would expect them to be qualified. You would expect them to have studied to...
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Why you should never use paid links
There has been a lot of debate over the ethics of using paid links to prop up your search engine optimisation campaign over the years. Some SEO companies refuse to use them (like us here at StuckOn)...
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The perils of ‘fire and forget’ SEO
It is often said that SEO is more akin to an art than a science. A thorough background in search engine optimisation theory is not quite enough to make the grade as a top notch SEO, you also need a...
View ArticleCowboy SEO
It’s a sad fact about modern living, but many of us feel totally helpless when it comes to practical jobs such as fixing a car or any DIY that goes beyond constructing an IKEA bookcase. The image of a...
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Attack of the late-night Gremlins
We’ve all had it happen, and recently it happened to me. It was a long day, the computer screen was bright, my headache was pounding and suddenly, they pounced on me: The late-night gremlins....
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SEO ignorance is not bliss
‘Ignorance is bliss‘. Whoever came up with this phrase sure knew their fellow man. It’s precisely what we all want to believe when it comes to awareness of the outside world. However, in SEO, like many...
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Don’t succumb to an SEO sugar rush
Have you ever given a small child red food colouring, especially in conjunction with lots of sugar? The effect is pretty instantaneous. The child tends to run around like a crazed bumblebee for around...
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Always re-stock your SEO store cupboard
The other day, to my horror, I discovered that Pot Noodles can go bad. In all my experience of Pot Noodle, the thought that it was perishable food had never occurred to me. I had begun to believe that...
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Don’t be the little website that couldn’t
The Little Engine That Could is a heart-warming tale perfect for boosting the morale of any five-year-old. It encourages children to persevere with hard tasks, telling them that no matter how small...
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Avoid those ‘D’oh!’ moments in SEO
Homer Simpson doesn’t have a lot to be thanked for in this world. The Simpsons, in general, is a fairly praiseworthy show in philosophical terms. There aren’t very many situations in life that don’t...
View ArticleMeta name=“revisit-after” – and why it’s an SEO myth
One of the biggest problems with SEO is that you never know when someone is an SEO expert, or when they’re just making it up as they go. This is a problem because there are no formal qualifications...
View ArticleWhy your website is not an iPhone
It may seem fairly obvious that your website is not an iPhone. The tell-tale clues are there. iPhones are mobile devices used to talk, text and post embarrassing photos of friends while on the go. Your...
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