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SEO Scoop is DazzlinDonna's blog focused mostly on organic SEO tips, SEO tools, and Internet marketing in general.
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What does my perfect SEO training scheme look like?
I’ve been in the fortunate situation lately where Mediaedge:cia Manchester has been recruiting a number of SEO’s lately. On the back of this, we thought it best to formalise the training for each new-starter in order to aid the induction process...
Has Twitter killed the inbound link?
If you believe the hype, Twitter is the biggest serial killer since Jack the Ripper. Mitch Joel thinks it killed RSS. And there is certainly an element of truth in that. How often do you really check your reader these days…? Be honest. For others, ...
Google Approaching Real-Time Search Results?
One of the hot topics for Google these days is implementing a functional real-time search. There's no denying that the success of Twitter is the draw for this need. Increasingly audiences want search results tailored around current events, skipping s...
SEO Strategy: Bigger and Better Goals
SEO is not one-size-fits-all. Although at Fuel Interactive for SEO, we have A standard SEO process A prioritized checklist of best practices Several simultaneous optimization paths… …we don’t treat every client the same. We start...
Why the UK SEO industry needs more SEO meet-ups…
For me, one of the real highlights of working in the SEO industry is the community that’s been built, and continues to thrive for a number of reasons. I’m writing this post on the back of having been to a SEO meet-up recently where I met some mo...
TGIF - ~:o
Welcome to another edition of TGIF. I hope that you have had a happy and satisfying week and that you’re looking forward to the weekend with much anticipation. It is a wonderful thing to look forward to trips, excursions, having friends round...
12-Step Social Media Guide: Put your Local Business on the Map
Before you go on to devour the Twitter and FaceBook secrets I have for you, I’d love to tell you that you can launch an online business using Twitter and FaceBook alone, and without doing much of anything else–but I’d be misleading ...
Five Ways To Turn Blog Comments Into Conversations
Blog Comments Are In A Sorry State Many bloggers feel that a blog is not a blog unless it has worth while comments. Unfortunately most blogs do not receive many comments or comments of any particular quality. Just consider for example a good ...
5 Tips For Better Press Releases
Press releases are excellent for building links and driving traffic, but only if they're formatted and written correctly. Here are 5 tips that will ensure you get the most from each press release....
Boldness = Genius, Power & Magic
Sometimes the stars align and you get a client who knows exactly what they want and is able to articulate their desires to you. This phenomenon is about as frequent as Haley’s Comet. Most clients have no idea what they want and whatever ideas...
SEO is my Role Playing Game
If you’ll forgive the geeky subject matter, I’d like to propose the concept of treating search engine optimization as a game. Similar to World of Warcraft, SEO can be just as engaging and exciting as a massively multiplayer online role pl...
U-G-L-Y You Ain’t Got No Alibi!
The relationship between copywriters and graphic designers/web developers is a tense one. I can’t say that I blame designers. If the copy doesn’t fit the space, it degrades the design. In the defense of writers, there are many situations ...
The state of the UK SEO Jobs Market
UK Search Engine Marketing Industry is Bigger than ever As the recession creeps in and the news continues to fill with stories of companies making more and more redundancies, there is one exemplary winner in the economy…the search engine market...
A beginner’s guide to Twitter marketing
You’d have to be blind to be missing the Twitter hype machine at the moment. Not since Facebook has the mass media swooned so lustfully over a social based start up. Yet whereas the momentum behind Facebook was largely driven by the groundswell...
Local Search Ranking Factor Statistical Research
What I did was take three important keyword phrases for our local clients, get the top 20 local results, and compare those on these factors: For the Google local portion: Reviews Number of incidences of parts of keyword in local business listing tit...
Solve Problems and Links will Follow
Link building is a chore we all know we have to do, but the sheer quantity of options available often leaves me feeling like a deer in headlights. One idea that I've taken to heart is that if you make a concerted effort to solve a problem your visito...
Sick Depressed Fish Color & Decaying Fins?
It is almost impossible to be a good critic to yourself. I’ve told clients this and been frustrated when they couldn’t see that they aren’t their target market. The problem is, when you’re in the fish bowl, you think everyon...
How To Use FileLocator Pro to Search Log Files
This is a guest post by Jasenko Dizdarevic I’m going to show some of the capabilities of FileLocator Pro searching through compressed webserver log files. FileLocator Pro is a professional tool developed by Mythicsoft Ltd., UK based specialist ...
Dvorak Has Nerve To Bash SEO As If He Had A Clue
Don’t you just hate it when someone bashes your industry - and calls you names - based on faulty information, inadequate testing and no education? In other words, John Dvorak just called SEOs snake oil salesmen when he knows absolutely NOTHING...
Cause You Got Personality
A couple of months back, I was in the market for a laptop. I desperately wanted a Mac. My husband asked me why and I emphatically stated, “Because they are cool.” Being a writer and not excessively computer savvy, I didn’t need Mac’s ...
The White House Website is…COOL!?
I’ll be honest, until today, I’ve never been compelled to visit the White House website. I think I visited it during the whole Google Bomb “miserable failure” escapade but that was about it. While reading Technoroti, my interest was p...
Bigger Screens More Or Less
The continuing trend is for desktop computer monitor screens to be getting bigger. That raises a website design question but more importantly a question of how to use that bigger screen real estate. More is not always better. Screens Are...
Search Engine People turns SEO Scoop over to the community
Over the last couple of years Search Engine People has grown tremendously. But we didn’t come out of left field: we came out of the SEO community. We studied together, we learned together, we researched together; together we’ve been flabb...
SEO Scoop Moving Onwards And Upwards
If you are a regular reader of SearchEnginePeople’s blog (and you should be if you aren’t), you’ll notice that Jeff Quipp just let everyone know that SearchEnginePeople just acquired SEO Scoop from me. I’ll still be around, a...
Personal Branding Gold Rush
It’s that time of year again when the next issue of Personal Branding magazine is released. Although I’m a staff writer for the magazine, I don’t have an article in this issue due to circumstances and time problems. But that doesn...
