Articles by SEO Dave

Recently wrote the Amazon Online Shop SEO Check guide and discussed Amazon.com home page SEO and how I think they could improve their Google traffic for SERPs like Online Shopping by having a title tag “Amazon.com: Online Shopping” and stated would be an interesting SEO test to target the Online Shopping SERP on this website which isn’t a shopping site. I don’t seriously expect to rank high for the online shopping SERP (will probably get useless low/no traffic SERPs like Online Shopping SEO), for starters this isn’t a shop which makes it impossible to silo SEO links: look at the left sidebar links, they are about SEO not shopping which will hurt this webpages shop SERPs and I’m contextually linking […]

WordPress 4 includes a cool new feature for selecting a language during installation allowing much easier WordPress localization.

Pre WP 4 to achieve the same localisation you would have to download and install WordPress in your language: was harder to setup localization before WP 4.

In WordPress 4.0 there are 40 languages currently localized by default. Using this new WP feature with the Stallion Responsive language translation feature you can fully localize WordPress in minutes.

Was reading an SEO article on Niche Pursuits I Need Your Input for 2 SEO Experiments! which is looking for ideas for an SEO experiment. Basically they want their visitors via comments to suggest an SEO experiment and there’s a social media SEO experiment I’d like testing I was going to post this as a comment at Niche Pursuits, but it got a little long explaining my SEO logic (I don’t write short comments :-)) so new SEO test article… I’ve setup a lot of SEO experiments over the past 10-15 years and always try to limit them to one variable (studied genetics at University, I’m a scientist at heart) as it makes it easier to understand an experiment when […]

Under Google Webmaster Tools “Search Appearance” >> “HTML Improvements” >> “Duplicate title tags” shows webpages with duplicate title tags.

In a perfect SEO world all webpages on your website would have unique title tags, in this WordPress SEO tutorial we cover how to find and how to fix duplicate title tags paying particular attention to how Stallion Responsive helps reduce duplicate title tags.

Open letter to the blackhat SEO community. Dear BlackHat Community, I was a blackhat SEO before it was called blackhat SEO (I’m apparently old :-)). I was spamming guestbooks, forums and comments for links before we had tools for automatically SPAMMING links and at the time (pre 2004-2005) it worked really well, I once had a domain (eccomerce site) with a PR8 home page from link spamming with loads of competitive top 3 Google SERPs. The black hat SEO techniques I used worked really well 10 years ago, made me a lot of money, but the techniques used by the black hat community have evolved and so has Google. BlackHat SEO blackhat SEO, not such a good way to do […]

Since the release of the free Google PageSpeed Insights Tool I’ve spent a LOT of time trying to get this website to rank as close to 100/100 via the WordPress SEO Package I develop and currently (September 2014) stuck at: Mobile 77/100 User Experience 99/100 Desktop 91/100 See the Live PageSpeed Insights Results. These are very good PageSpeed Insights results and going to be hard to improve, not because I can’t get better results, but I can’t get better results without turning important website features off. I could get to something like these results: Mobile 96/100 User Experience 100/100 Desktop 98/100 By turning a few website features off (would take two minutes to achieve) including the Facebook and Google+ social […]