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New Website Launched: Lanes School of Motoring
Tweet We are pleased to announce the launch of a brand new website designed and built by SEOwned. Lanes School of Motoring who are based in Wirral, Merseyside have been in business over 6 years and are one of Wirral’s most established and professional driving schools. The brief for the design and build was to [...]
Link Building In A Post Penguin Era
Tweet Google, renowned for updating its algorithms to try and prevent the gaming of their search engine rankings, has caused a stir in the webmaster world. Recent algorithm updates, specifically the Panda and Penguin updates, have led to some serious changes in the way that website owners need to optimise their websites. Specifically, the changes [...]
The game hasn’t changed, just the tactics
Tweet 2012 has seen significant changes from Google to their search engine’s algorithm, leading to the predictable chorus of blogs stating that SEO is dead/dying, however if we look at the Wikipedia definition of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO): Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web [...]
Bloom Room Florist Website By SEOwned
Tweet We are pleased to announce the launch of a new website designed and built by SEOwned. Bloom Room Florist is the result of a winning bid in a cancer charity auction by the owner of Ellies Bistro. The website was designed by the team here at SEOwned from start to finish and including photographs [...]
Starting off in Social Media Marketing – Adventures in Search
Tweet Note: This is a post by Vicky Clark, one of our newest additions to the team. She is a newcomer to SEO and Search Marketing and has agreed to document her development here in the hope that she will help others in a similar situation. We hope you enjoy the post, and indeed the [...]
SEO is finally definitely really DEAD
Tweet Note: This post was written as an entry for a competition by Vicky Clark. It is a fictional preview of what could happen in the year 2022, and is a hat tip to the endless stream of SEO is dead posts. I know it may have been said before and many of you have [...]
Three Actionable Tips for Getting More Traffic
Tweet 1. Optimise your Google Places listing With Google’s move towards showing more and more universal search results on their results pages, not having a properly optimised Google Places listing can mean missing out on free traffic. Admittedly you are limited on how much you can optimise for certain searches, in that the search needs [...]
Advanced Web Ranking – Review
Tweet There are many ways to check where a website ranks in all of the major search engines. You can: Manually check all of your rankings and plot them in a spreadsheet – however for checking sites with more than a few keywords this can become tedious very quickly. Use RankChecker – a Firefox addon, [...]
htaccess 101
Tweet Today we are going to talk about some of the powerful things you can do with your .htaccess file. .htaccess is primarily used to give instructions to Apache servers before a page loads, it can however also be used in Windows environments where Helicon ISAPI Rewrite 3 module is also available. Note: .htaccess is [...]
SEOwned Supports Cancer Charity
Tweet This week SEOwned helped support cancer research at Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, based in South Wirral. We offered a free SEO audit for the highest bidder in their auction. The winner was Ellies Bistro & Bar based in Greasby. The SEO Audit raised £50 towards the total amount for Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology. About [...]
