SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is how you make your website easier to find on Google. It’s about improving your site so that when people search for things related to your business, your pages appear higher in the results. Editor's Note [12.02.25]: This is a major...
Why Good Content Matters: SEO Content Creation Guidelines [UPDATED]
Welcome to our up-to-date SEO content creation guidelines. One of the most basic SEO challenges many website owners face is the lack of good content, but what do we mean by this? Good content can mean very different things depending on who you speak to –...
How to Build Powerful Backlinks Using Infographics & Video Content
Editors Note: Our post on how to build powerful backlinks was originally posted in May 2017 where we discussed link building and touched upon the effectiveness of visual content such as infographics and video when it comes to SEO. This is such an important topic that...
Is Buying Backlinks Safe? Do Paid Links Have a Place in Modern SEO? [UPDATED]
If you're here, it means you are asking the question, Is buying backlinks safe? Before answering that, let's answer a more fundamental question, Are backlinks important for SEO and do they improve rankings? The short answer is yes, but there are many different types...
How to Get Free Backlinks for Your Website: Our Top 10 Methods [UPDATED]
Introduction: Getting Backlinks Without Paying For Them If you're here, you will be searching for how to get backlinks for free. However, growing your SEO organically can be a slow process. There are many methods and techniques involved, which you can learn about in...
Dofollow vs Nofollow Links & SEO: The Truth About the Nofollow Tag [UPDATED]
Before we get into the nitty-gritty, it's important to understand that Nofollow is a directive for search engines, not a penalty or something to be scared about. What is Nofollow in SEO? In a nutshell, Nofollow in SEO simply means that a backlink or hyperlink...
Backlink Your Way to SEO Success: An Up-To-Date Link Building Guide [UPDATED]
Before we jump into our link building guide, let's start at the beginning and cover what SEO means. The Role of Link Building in SEO Our simple SEO guide below covers all of the fundamentals, including common myths about backlinks and the role they play in modern SEO....
Top 5 Tools to Check Competitor Backlinks
What benefit is there in knowing how to check backlinks from your competitors? As the great Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu, said; “Know yourself, know your enemy, and you shall win a hundred battles without loss”. In this instance, we are talking about the war...
Can Google Penalise Bad Links and How Does It Impact Your Business?
Since Google introduced the Penguin update to its algorithm in 2012, practices such as black hat SEO link building have, thankfully, been in decline. Widespread manipulation of a website’s ranking involving the practice of buying links, spam comments, link farming and...
Are Social Bookmarking Links Effective for SEO?
What is Social Bookmarking? In the same way that individuals use bookmarks in a web browser to curate content, social bookmarking is an online service that allows registered users to do the same. In addition, users can also annotate, edit and share web pages; in...