I had to laugh… my business partner Allan sent me a link to a search forum he was busily posting away on the other day. On the forum there was a guy (who shall remain nameless because I don’t want to give him any credit at all for anything) who was insisting that we knew nothing about search engine optimisation because Allan was asking questions on the forum about on-page optimisation! The guy went on to talk a total load of crap! (more…)

I got a call this morning from a nice chap who informed me that he was building a shiny new site for a customer that had cost £XXX thousands, and he has now been commissioned to find someone to do the search engine optimisation…

I had a look at this shiny new site to give him an estimate on how much it would be to pick his work apart and do it properly for the search engines only to find out that it was all controlled by a custom content management system and would therefore be a total nightmare to alter to make it search engine spider (and for that matter ‘all browser’ ) friendly, as the site was built to use all manner of Internerd Exploder addons (insert version number here) which don’t work in Firefox or any other browser. (more…)

How annoying is it when you spend a good two hours writing a new post about something which you think is brilliant and then the evil scrapper robots out there scrape your site straight away and have your content ranking higher on their site than on yours! (more…)

In order to optimise a small site the diligent SEO must pay attention to many issues both on and off page. Whilst this is a reasonably specialised skill its not rocket science. SEO is not a black box of tricks and spells, its really quite simple stuff, and most people who read a lot will easily pick up the basics. So why is it some of us are more highly regarded, dare I say it more highly paid? Personally I think one area that takes a lot of experience is the ability to optimize and get high rankings in Dynamic sites. (more…)

Now this has always, since day 1, been a really good directory to get your site up the rankings. Recently of course the guys over at Best Of The Web have done a great job of improving the look, feel and usability of their site which has helped to gained them a very high PR7 ranked website. In addition to this they have also launched their blog directory which is both a good place to list your blog and a fantastic resource. Link below: (more…)

Hi there all, I just wanted to check to see if any of you were going to SES London the year? The schedule looks really good, with some good speakers, and presentations. Line up includes: (more…)

FireflySEO are happy to announce the first in our forthcoming series of free SEO Tools, the FireflySEO HTTP Viewer otherwise known as Header Response Tool. Version 1 functionality includes: (more…)

I’m sure you’ve heard the story, one of your potential customers has had a website for many years, they want to come over to your SEO and hosting service and work with you but their present hosts are holding them to ransom. “Pay us £XXX amount of moolah or we won’t release your domain name, will take your website offline and stop your email”. Hardly what any company owner wants to hear!

We abhor this sort of treatment here at FireflySEO, and whilst we recognise that bills have to be paid for services rendered, there’s no excuse for this sort of behaviour when someone simply wants to move hosts. (more…)

Well all the bubbly has been drunk, the memories of too much turkey and mince pies have been washed away, and we are faced with another year of Search Engine Optimisation. So what exactly are we going to do with ourselves this year?

Well, as some of you have been asking us this question, we thought we would give you all a brief synopsis.

I have been discussing with my business partner the possibility of expanding our video posts this year, as such we plan to release a series of search engine optimisation videos. For the ladies out there, I’m sorry to inform you that we had a toss of the coin and I lost. I guess I shouldn’t be so hard on myself, some people tell me I look a bit like Easy Rider. (more…)

Call me a daydreamer, but I’ve always thought it would be just fantastic to work with some companies in Whilster Blackcomb, BC, Canada. For those of you who don’t know, Whilster Blackcomb is officially the best ski resort in North American and has been voted by many people as the best ski resort in the world. For a ski junkie like me then it’s my idea of paradise!

How does it fair with my other passion though? What is the search engine optimization market like? Is there a vibrant and alive SEO industry based in Whistler BC? Is search engine optimization Whistler alive? If so its something that FireflySEO would like to tap into which is part of the reason that we have written this post.

I guess the first place to look is at demand. Well, come-on, surely this one is a no-brainer. There has got to be a huge amount of demand for search engine optimization in Whilster Blackcomb. I mean it’s a ski resort, which means they have an abundance of restaurants, bars, hotels, guesthouses and shops. I guess getting a warm lead with one of these businesses could be the tough bit though. Most of them are owned by larger brand names, businesses, hotel chains or in deed the massive conglomerate Intrawest. Saying this we have done lots of work with hotel chains over the years and have got in with the likes of Stakis and Best Western already as such the author would like to think that we are better placed than most to approach these businesses. (more…)