Until a few years ago it was possible to win at SEO through taking a relatively robotic and technical approach to website optimisation and to then build links en masse through largely automated/outsourced or at least templated processes. There was often little love in this process apart from the love of finding and implementing new..
Link building with Clique Hunter from Majestic
The Clique Hunter from Majestic just helped me find 125 new link opportunities that I have somehow managed to miss in a tight niche. I have been working for this client for around 18 months and our link building has been very successful and their traffic has grown significantly over the period but this was..
Adwords Script to track Quality Score on Account, campaign & Ad Group Level
Warning: this post is a bit more technical than most of our posts as we go into some depth on Adwords scripts. BUT – do not worry – if you follow the post through you will hopefully be able to just follow the instructions and achieve what you need to achieve with no coding at..
Do you ever forget your manners online?
I would be lying if I said that my behaviour online was completely reflective of my offline behaviour. To be honest I do not think it is possible to behave in the same way online and offline effectively as the circumstances are so different. But manners remain incredibly important and I think that it is..
Interview with an Adwords Quality Score junkie
I spend a lot of time studying and obsessing over the quality score of our clients in their Adwords account as I know what a difference it can make to performance. Here and here are some previous posts on Quality Score. Over the past month or so I have become acquainted with someone who is..
Why is my CTR so damn low?
With Google Adwords (or SEO for that matter) when you find a keyword that converts well and that gives you good orders/leads at a great cost per conversion you want more from it. You want to squeeze as much traffic out of it as possible as you know that the more traffic you get the..
White hat SEO Linkbuilding – 14 step process infographic
There still seems to be a lot of confusion about what is a reliable link building process that can be trusted not to fall foul of Google and also that will improve traffic. I have given a basic outline of our process in the following, and epically long infographic. I am not really sure that..
Crudely reverse engineering Google Adwords Quality Score Formula
This has given me a headache – there are a lot of spreadsheets coming up so brace yourself. I set up a new clients account last week and was taking them through it when a question that they asked gave me an idea. Just take a moment to check the QS of the keywords below:..
Getting your head around Google Adwords Enhanced Campaigns
Google Adwords is a highly intelligent and well built marketing tool. But because it has evolved over a number of years with layer upon layer of new functions, a well constructed campaign is usually pretty complex. Some of the considerations we have to go through when we start working on a new account are: Geographic..
Line – the social network that will topple Facebook?
This is a bit of a diversion from my usual posts on practical PPC or SEO to something more newsy – as I spend a lot of time in Japan I thought it would be interesting for you all;- please let me know what you think? I was in a meeting with a client in..
