Category Archives: Anti-Mainstream SEO

We are “anti-mainstream SEO”. We believe in building high quality websites with high quality content that attracts the attention of search engines, but more importantly, humans!

Dangerous Search Engine Optimisation

In the olden days of the search engines, which can literally mean months ago, you could still get away with building thousands of poor quality links and see an excellent improvement in your Search Engine Rankings. For this reason, many SEO gurus would basically spam the internet with junk content to create more backlinks to their customer’s websites. They would syndicate rubbish content, swap links with dodgy websites and use all sorts of deceptive ‘black hat’ SEO strategies.(more…)

The Most Beautiful Website Nobody Ever Saw

It’s pointless creating a visually stunning website if very few people ever see it. When working on an entrepreneurial website development, it is not just human visitors you must consider; you also need to make your website attractive to search engines to earn more respect from the search engine spiders looking for valuable information. In order to be noticed by the human visitors your website has to be visible on top of the search engine results. The best way to accomplish a more prominent placement in the search results is to keep your website fresh and regularly update content.(more…)

Do Submissions to Article Directories Still Work?

Once upon a time, in a cyberspace long ago article marketing through directories was an extremely powerful tool to increase search engine traffic. Basically, people were submitting one article to hundreds of article directories with the intention of building a massive number of inbound links to their website. That was before Google included the ‘duplicate content’ rule. Now the question is, are article directories any advantage to search engine optimisation at all?(more…)