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Sam Langdon
Sam Langdon
I've worked with the web in various industries and various capacities for over 10 years. My web related roles have included: customer services, product development, design, client-side programming, 'back end' (ASP, ASP.Net, PHP & SQL) programming, project management and team management. In this time, I've amassed a considerable amount of knowledge about the many aspects of SEO and internet marketing.
I recognise that the landscape has changed considerably in the relatively short space of time that the web has existed and as technology has progressed, search engine optimisation has moved from being about keywords and link exchanges to providing users with useful content, so that search engines will recognise the usefulness. Social media has become an important factor in the equation, acting as a means of spreading the word about websites and services.
I have created this website with the intention of providing a repository of SEO related information in a structured format, as a guide for anyone with a website. In addition to this, the blog contains frequent updates reflecting the fluidity of SEO.
I hope you find it useful.
If you'd like to get in touch, feel free to drop me a line at: info@great-seo.co.uk
Thanks,
Sam
By Sam Langdon on March 7, 2010
Matt Cutts recently posted a Google Webmaster video containing some useful link building tips. Whilst there’s nothing particularly revolutionary, it nicely articulates a number of useful basics in a sub 8-minute video. Of course these are ‘Google approved’ and it’s good to hear it from the proverbial horse’s mouth. Here’s a summary of the key [...]
Posted in Link Building | Tagged Link Building, matt cutts
By Sam Langdon on February 27, 2010
I’ve decided to make the format of these weekly news updates a little snappier – so here’s my top 5 interesting/useful/topical search related posts from this week. SEOmoz: SEO for Startups: Top 7 Lessons – Some excellent key lessons from Rand at SEOmoz plucked from a recent presentation he gave in London. It’s easy to [...]
Posted in SEO News
By Sam Langdon on February 27, 2010
In a Google Webmaster Central video from Matt Cutts this week, the topic of nofollow links in blog comments is discussed. There are 2 important conclusions: If you have a blog, you should nofollow links. The reason being that spammers adding untoward links can earn you a poor reputation in the eyes of Google. Of [...]
Posted in Content, Link Building | Tagged google, matt cutts, nofollow
By Sam Langdon on February 24, 2010
I spotted a fantastic quick visual guide for the recommended use of some of the current popular social media sites in an article entitled: A CMO’s Guide to the Social Media Landscape over at CMO.com. Well worth 5 minutes of your time…
Posted in Social Media | Tagged social media landscape
By Sam Langdon on February 21, 2010
Another week, another barrage of exciting SEO and technology related news. Highlights this week include the struggle for search dominance on mobile and desktop, Google Buzz getting more press – both good & bad and Tiger Woods’ streamed apology. Mobile Mobile Search Dominance WebProNews discussed Windows 7 Phone having Bing built in potentially increasing its [...]
Posted in SEO News | Tagged google buzz, search dominance, SEO News
By Sam Langdon on February 21, 2010
Note – I originally attempted to publish this article on SEOmoz, but there was a ‘conflict of interest’ as they weren’t willing to out other SEO websites’ possibly unethical practices. I found the recent release of SEOmoz’s Open Site Explorer extremely useful. It’s particularly good at comparing sites quickly and listing inbound links in descending [...]
Posted in Link Building, Tools | Tagged black hat, Link Building, seomoz open site explorer
By Sam Langdon on February 13, 2010
Another week of top SEO news from influential industry sources, collated and commented on, to save you the bother. This weeks highlights include Google Buzz, Yahoo leaving search and Vancouver 2010 online. Google Buzz As I , Google’s new social platform: Buzz has arrived, bringing with it a chance to get more instantly indexed SERP [...]
Posted in SEO News | Tagged buzz, google ISP, Vancouver
By Sam Langdon on February 13, 2010
Robert Scoble recently called a new mobile tool: Siri “the most useful thing I’ve seen this year”. It glues together a number of different APIs to allow users to potentially find information about pretty much anything, once the right APIs are hooked up, as explained in this interview with Siri’s CEO. This fascinates me, as [...]
Posted in Social Media, Technical Architecture | Tagged connected APIs, Robert Scoble, semantic web, Siri
By Sam Langdon on February 11, 2010
Google announced their new social platform: Buzz this week, to lots of media erm…buzz. It fits neatly into Gmail and with typically easy to use image & video features and a neat location specific mobile web app (not to mention Google’s monstrous size & leverage), it looks set to rival Twitter & Facebook. As Chris [...]
Posted in Social Media | Tagged google, google buzz
By Sam Langdon on February 6, 2010
Another week of unmissable technology and SEO news from the top sources, to save you having to trawl through yourself. Highlights include Firefox going mobile, comments being removed from Engadget, how to be included in Google News and astronauts on Twitter. Firefox Goes Mobile and IE6 Goes Kaput As the number of users surfing the [...]
Posted in General | Tagged astronauts, firefox, steve jobs
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