Author Archives: Rachel McCombie

EU Cookie Directive: What, Why, Who, When and How?

Like it or not, the deadline for complying with the EU cookie directive is drawing very close. No matter how nonsensical this law seems, the sad reality is that it’s …

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BuzzStream – a blogger outreach tool review

Like many agencies, blogger outreach constitutes a significant proportion of the time we spend link building. In our experience, it gets great links whilst maintaining a natural link profile. Until …

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How to create a successful business blog

Rome wasn’t built in a day – and similarly (if on a somewhat smaller scale!), building up a successful blog doesn’t happen overnight. As with anything, it takes hard work, …

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Why SEOs should be conducting user testing research

‘Build websites for users, not search engines’ is the advice continually propounded by insiders at Google. As SEOs, we’re used to looking at websites and analysing how they would be …

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5 Ways a Client Can Sabotage SEO

Running an SEO project smoothly and effectively requires juggling many skills:  creativity, proactivity, effective time management and organisation, to name just a few. But I would argue that one of …

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To blog comment or not to blog comment? 65% say YES to blog commenting!

Blog comments:  quick link building win or spam-tastic black hat method you wouldn’t touch with a barge pole? I wanted to find out what the general consensus was on this …

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How to Create a Friendlier Forum

* Has your brand ever considered setting up a forum on its website for visitors? The benefits to a brand of a successful online community can be considerable. It builds …

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Introducing the new Verbatim search tool from Google

Google announced a new tool this week – Verbatim, which is essentially a fast way to find results which exactly match your search queries. This tool replaces the use of …

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SearchLove 2011: Top Trends

Ok so the “Top 20,001 takeaways” type posts have already been done, so I wanted to make this more of a general view of the themes emerging from this year’s …

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Redefining “SEO Copywriting”

Here at SEOptimise we’ve been thinking a lot about copywriting recently. More than usual, that is! As the person responsible for overseeing copywriting at SEOptimise, I thought I’d share a …

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