SEO Tutorials

SEO tutorials written by an SEO expert with over 15 years search engine optimization experience.

I own around 100 domains and they all started out as http (unsecure) websites. Google now treats https (Note: the S of httpS = secure SSL connection) as a ranking factor and with so many domains it’s taken a while to update them from http to https and below I’ll explain why! I host my […]

Continue Reading Moving a WordPress Site from HTTP to HTTPS SEO Guide

The title tag or to be more accurate the title element (it’s an HTML element, not a meta tag, but most webmasters think it’s a meta tag like the meta description tag) is what you see at the top of web browsers like Google Chrome and Firefox. If you are using Google Chrome or Firefox […]

Continue Reading Title Tag SEO

Way too many of the SEO consultants working in the search engine optimization sector haven’t a clue what they are doing, especially regarding technical SEO issues. I would even go as far to say the vast majority of businesses working in the SEO industry are selling SEO snake oil! Quick Disclaimer: I work as a […]

Continue Reading How to Check an SEO Consultant is an SEO Expert?

You’ve created a great article and now plan to add relevant keywords to generate as many SERPs as possible to increase keyword density/keyword spread. It’s really easy to over do it, to over search engine optimise content to a point it’s difficult to read. What is Keyword Stuffed Content? Below is two versions of the […]

Continue Reading SEO Copywriting Tip Avoid Keyword Stuffing

Keyword cannibalization is an SEO issue related to targeting multiple webpages to the same SERP wether by choice or inadvertently (by mistake). In it’s simplest form if we were targeting a SERP like “SEO Training” and believed multiple webpages targeting this exact phrase will result in the ‘best’ results (an incorrect belief). You might create […]

Continue Reading SEO Lessons from Keyword Cannibalization

Google has a section (tab) on the Google Chrome “Developers Tools” called LightHouse “Audits”. When using the Google Chrome browser go to the “Customize and Control Google Chrome” (Menu on top right), followed by “More Tools” > “Developers Tools” > “Audits”, see screenshot below. It’s not a new SEO audit tool per se, Google’s Lighthouse […]

Continue Reading Google Chrome Lighthouse Audit SEO Tool

The problem with a concept like Content is King is it over simplifies how search engines (Google) works. It’s like saying you can make cake with an egg and nothing else! If true it would suggest great content will rise to the top of Google just because it’s great content: no need for any of […]

Continue Reading SEO Myth : Content is King

Anchor text is the text associated with a text link and Google considers anchor text as a very important SEO ranking factor in 2018 for both the webpage the link goes to AND the webpage the link is on. Yes, the anchor text is a ranking factor for the linked to and the linked from […]

Continue Reading Anchor Text of Internal Links SEO Test