SEO
In part 1 of this challenge, we revealed how our three challengers are each using different on-page SEO tactics, to try to get their website ranking the highest in Google within 30 days for the search term “frictionless owls”.
So far, David is appearing top with his website frictionlessowls.com using keyword rich content copied and pasted from other websites (boo!).
Ali’s close behind with her site frictionlessowls.co.uk using unique, newly written content about a fictional rockband The Frictionless Owls.
Oliver is using a script to create spammy pages with automatically generated content, but isn’t yet ranked on Google.
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There are millions of articles, ebooks and training courses out there that claim to tell you how to do SEO. As web people, we of course read many of these in an effort to keep on top of the latest techniques and to understand the most recent changes to search engine algorithms. But as naturally curious people, we couldn’t help feeling that we wanted to test these theories out ourselves a bit more scientifically, and see the outcomes with our own eyes.
So we pitted three of our best web experts against each other in a challenge to test their SEO skills and knowledge. The challenge was…
Who can get their website to rank highest in Google for a specific keyword.
But there was a catch. They weren’t allowed to create any links to the websites they created, so the only type of SEO they could use was on-page.
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If you’re looking to improve your visibility in search engines, or outsource your SEO to an agency, you’ll probably be bombarded with a lot of terminology, jargon and buzzwords that can be confusing.
To help you understand the language of SEO, we’ve picked the top 12 SEO terms and briefly explained what they mean.
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What are website headings?
Headings on websites are extremely important for breaking up your paragraphs of content, and formatting your text. In this article we’re going to explain what they are, why you should use them effectively in your web pages, and how important they are for SEO.
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If you’ve had some experience or involvement of SEO before then you’re you probably think its obvious that you can increase your search engine placement with incoming links, but actually we’ve found that it’s not obvious to everyone. I’ve been asked by website owners who want to know what they can do to improve their site’s ranking in search engines. And not everyone knows that the placement of your site in Google is related to the amount of websites that link to it.
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