A few of my favourite things August 3, 2010 No Comments
When you are writing a blog it is often difficult to steer away from your ‘favourite things’ and write something different and original.
I love films so I often find myself coasting towards that subject and writing a film review or a film analogy or even a film inspired SEO metaphor.
But I’m here to tell you that as much as I love “Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens”, that just for today I’m going to explain why it’s important to write something different every now and again.
What’s the twitter-story morning glory? July 20, 2010 No Comments
Many moons ago I was apprehensive about using Twitter as I thought: “what’s the point? It’s just people chasing followers.”
And although a part of me still thinks that, I can’t help but to see how twitter is invaluable to a company, especially an online company.
This is because Twitter is essentially a free way to do market research and in a fraction of the time.
Let me explain.
Too much choice and SEO July 13, 2010 No Comments
Is too much choice a bad thing?
Now, instinctively I’d say “no” but recently I’ve been unable to choose what film to watch of an evening and I’m pretty sure it’s all because I’ve got too much choice.
It has to be that because I’ve got some amazing films like The Godfather, Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, The 40 year old virgin, Scent of a woman, Amelie, Jurassic Park, to name but a few. So how can I not pick a film to watch?
The answer: I have so many that I don’t know where to start.
Google Caffeine – hyperactive SEO? June 21, 2010 No Comments
I’ve not been too well this weekend, for the first time in quite a while – at this point I would usually awkwardly segue onto the topic of content and how bad content could make you ill, but that’s just ridiculous.
Instead I’m going to discuss Google Caffeine – because that’s been a major factor in keeping me going this weekend (caffeine I mean, not Google).
No website is an Island! June 15, 2010 No Comments
About a boy is an amazing film and not just because it’s Hugh Grant’s best film, it’s really funny, it was wrote by Nick Horby and it’s really moving and emotional.
And also because it has a single message, ‘No man is an Island’.
Which means, we can’t live alone and unconnected from our fellow man (sorry I went a bit Dickens there) but instead we must live together, form relationships and just connect with other human beings.
And the same is true for websites.
Just how much will social media REALLY affect SEO companies? May 31, 2010 No Comments
Over the past few months and especially since the Google ‘Mayday’ update, it has been crossing my mind about just how influential social media will become when Google really does something about it. Make that has now become.
So, its here, we have to ‘deal’ with it. This will be the view of many SEO companies.
Is it something to be embraced or is it a chore? How will SEO companies manage to take social media and actually make it a beneficial service for their clients? They have a few options, of which some are here:
- Pass on the work to genuine social media experts, admitting that its not their core service
- Pretend that they know what they are doing and sell it anyway
- Bury their head in the sand and ignore it
- Get learning fast and become a premium service provider of social media marketing Read the rest of this entry »
Why Amazon is so good for SEO, usability and authority May 28, 2010 No Comments
Amazon has long been established as the biggest online shopping presence and was first founded back in 1994 and launched on the interweb in 1995 where it’s main focus was books. Later Amazon would develop into a giant monster of a shopping site where you can buy a massive range of goods
Design-wise Amazon is simple and easy to use, despite having a massive range of products it’s still easy to find what you want, all plus points on the usability here. The fluid web design also works in any browser size from your netbook style size to your giant widescreen desktop monitor Read the rest of this entry »
SEO and Lost spoilers May 27, 2010 No Comments
Have you ever wanted to talk about something but not been able to because you didn’t want to spoil the secret? Well that’s the situation me, Javaria and Roger have been in this week.
We all watched Lost at the beginning of the week have been unable to talk about it as someone in the office hasn’t watched series 6 yet. It’s been very frustrating.
So I thought I’d get round this problem by writing a SEO inspired unique and coded description of what happened. And it’s got to be written in such a way that people who watched it can tell what I’m talking about but obscure enough to not give anything away.
It’s not just content but quality content that matters May 18, 2010 No Comments
There’s been 21 full seasons of the Simpsons and 464 episodes, which makes it one of the most long running TV shows of all time. But is all that content a good thing?
I don’t think so and I’m going to tell you why.
By making content for the sake of making content you just ruin the integrity of a TV program or for us, at redsauce.com, a website.
SEO – What animal is your website most like May 17, 2010 No Comments
Your website, regardless of what it is, will always have competition and peers, but the question is what is the competition? How do you market the site and optimize it? And how do you fit into the whole sphere of the world wide webness? The most fun way to break this down is via the animal kingdom, in this instance I have chose, the lean, mean and unique leopard the rare and unique llama, and the family friendly, popular and well loved dog! Read the rest of this entry »
