Monday, January 28, 2013

The Best Free SEO, Site Speed and Usability Analysis Tools, Tips and Tricks

The Best Free SEO, Site Speed and Usability Analysis Tools, Tips and Tricks Part 1


These will be displayed in a list of tabs in your browser. Click here: http://www.tabs.to/1PFXSQ.

These include:

The Best Free Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Site Analysis Tools


www.semrush.com - view an approximate snapshot of a site's rankings. The 'organic keywords' report e.g. top right on http://www.semrush.com/uk/info/seolondonsurrey.co.uk+(by+organic) can help diagnose issues with ranking drops, deindexation of backlinks and Google penalties

www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider

www.copyscape.com - detect duplicate content

http://www.websitegrader.com

http://www.traffictravis.com - the best free search engine ranking checker?

http://www.found.co.uk/seo-tool - useful asssesment of a webpage

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html - good tool for finding broken links

http://try.powermapper.com/demo/sortsite.aspx - this tool will analyse 10 pages of a site online. There is also a free 30 trial day of a version that will allow you to analyse up to 100 pages.

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/lnkexam/Freeware.htm

Check out http://twitter.com/SEOTipsnTricks for some more free Search Engine Optimisation Analysis Tips, Tricks, Tools and more...

Saturday, December 29, 2012

How to optimise your Linkedin Profile to obtain Freelance Work via Search Engines


"Google is no longer just a search engine. With your potential customers, future employers, and members of the media turning to Google for information about your business, Google has become a reputation engine." - http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/google-reputation-management.html.

As a freelance working servicing a certain area e.g Cork in Ireland is worth knowing that your Linkedin profile can rank well on Google for 'freelance' / 'interim' / 'contract' -related phrases. Here's some hints and tips on how to optimise your Linkedin freelancer profile for Google and other search engines:
  1. Ask your happiest clients for recommendations and endorsements of your skills and expertise.

  2. You can select your location (based around the area you'd like to target).

  3. Use the words and phrases people searching for your services would search for. Use the Google Keyword Tool, with the exact match option switched on.

  4. Make your name keyword-rich – mine is “Freelance SEO Consultant London area – C. Byrne”.

  5. You should interlink all your online profiles. Make sure you link to the geolocated Linkedin profile URL e.g. http://uk.linkedin.com/in/emarketinguk/, not http://linkedin.com/in/emarketinguk/.

  6. Adding Applications can make your profile more keyword-rich.

  7. If you link to your Linkedin profile from your Twitter profile, linking to it from the 'Bio' field is preferable to linking to it from the 'Website' field as the website link is nofollowed (does not pass Google Page rank aka Google 'link juice').

  8. Make sure your “profile completeness” meter is at 100%.

  9. When you view your own profile whilst logged in, on the right there is a brief list “Who's viewed your profile" and you can click to see who they are.

  10. Making yourself appear scarce in an online marketplace for candidates / professional service providers can be useful. I've a note at the top of my Linkedin profile saying "FAO RECRUITERS. I am not available for full-time (interim & contract) roles. Thanks!". This also has the perk of stopping me being pestered by recruitment agencies :)

  11. Make sure have a public profile activated. This allows your profile to appear in search results on Google and other search engines for your target key phrases.

  12. You can leverage content on trusted domains such as Linkedin to rank well on search engines such as Google. I consider it to be my main online profile (because it ranks better for more competitive phrases in more populous areas where businesses I'm trying to attract are based).
  13. Interlink all your online profiles.
  14. Your professional headline is displayed in Google results: mine is "01252 757562 | Integrated Content, SEO & PPC Strategy | Helping businesses make websites easier to find & use since 2006".

See my profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/emarketinguk for some more ideas.

Monday, November 26, 2012

SEO Services Cork, Dublin, Galway and Limerick - Freelance

I'm an international Search Engine Optimisation / Google Consultant based in the UK and offer online marketing / Search Engine Optimization Services to not just Cork but also Dublin, Limerick, Derry, Belfast and Galway as well - the whole of Ireland.

Please see the bottom right of the page for my contact details.

This blog is currently ranking 11th on google.ie for the key phrase "SEO Cork".

At time of writing (November 2012), this (what was a) one-page blog is ranking 11th on google.ie for the key phrase "SEO Cork". This is after setting up the blog in August 2012 without any inbound link building! I was quite surprised to log in to blogspot.ie and see the blog had 90 views, which suggested that some rankings had been achieved already. I will be starting some link building to this sub-domain now!

Hopefully I will be visiting Cork in early 2013 for the Poetry Festival so will be able to meet any (prospective) clients then!

I have been freelance for over 4 years now and have worked internationally before. Please see 'About Me' section on the bottom right hand side for my contact details.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

SEO Cork City - Freelance Google Consultant

Hi

I'm Chris and I'm an Freelance SEO, PPC & Internet Marketing consultant based in the UK serving clients worldwide. I've been working in SEO since 2006 and freelance for over 4 years now.

This site was built to see if I can get some Google rankings relating to the city and county of Cork, Ireland and thus some work from Ireland. I offer my services worldwide.

My gran was from Buttevant near Mallow so it's my ancestral homeland :) . Please contact me for quick free quotes via email: cwjbyrne (at) aol.com with your land line phone number & / or Skype user name so I can ring you back - please advise of a convenient time - mornings before 10AM are generally best for me. I can consult" face to face" via Skype or in person (dependent on the project).

My website: www.seolondonsurrey.co.uk