Scott McLay's SEO Blog

Google Caffeine – Live Indexing? That Must be a Joke

Posted on August 9th, 2010 by Scott McLay

2 months ago today Google Caffeine went live, it promised live indexing which would lead to fresher results, sadly between 25th July right up to now Google’s crawling seems to be at snail pace, for example before and just after caffeine any blog post I published took around 10 minutes to be cached and indexed. [...]

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Google Suggests – How does it work?

Posted on August 5th, 2010 by Scott McLay

For a long time now the majority of SEO’s have been led to believe that Google Suggests is based on keyword search volume. Because of this many try to manipulate it to suggest the keywords they want and to be honest I’m really tired of these guys messing up the search volumes on keyword data.

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Quick Update – Domain Name Change, Time Constraints & Current Projects

Posted on July 17th, 2010 by Scott McLay

Sadly over the last month I have been too busy to post on this blog but starting next month im looking to do at least 1 post per week. The only thing I have managed to do for this blog is change the domain name from seo-consult.co.uk (which I received lawyers letters over) to scottmclay.co.uk [...]

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Search Engine Optimisation 101 – On-Page SEO Part 1

Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Scott McLay

Search engine optimisation isn’t as hard as you may think, if you design and develop your website with users in mind then you should already have a great foundation to build on. Most changes which are good for users will also have an impact on your search rankings, for example changing your Title attribute to [...]

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