I have just been checking out rankings and stuff this morning after a nice long Christmas break and I saw a Google ad for BT SearchSmart: PPC & SEO.
I checked it out and it is the real British Telecom offering SEO and PPC services, you can check the website out here.
BT are probably the biggest company ever to start selling SEO and PPC services.
Their SEO packages include most of the things you would expect to get with a basic SEO pack, with the option 1 for £74.99 per month + a £100 setup fee you get:
- Keyword selection
- Comprehensive website audit
- Recommendations document
- In depth telephone consultation
- Unlimited email access to online marketing specialists
- Google Site Map production and provision for upload
- Monthly SEO reports position reporting
- Best practice SEO documentation & guides
The only thing that’s missing is link building, however links are mentioned in their option 2 package which costs £349.99 per month + £100 setup:
- All the features of Option 1 plus:
- Unlimited 0800 phone-based support
- Link building via 3 bespoke articles (monthly)
- Directory submissions to up to 50 targeted directories
- Enhanced reporting
- Enhanced reporting of keywords & competitor link analysis
That doesn’t sound too bad, it could go either way I guess depending on the quality of the articles they are creating and the quality of the web directories and article directories they are submitting to. For a similar price we will include submissions to all of the best paid directories such as BOTW and Yahoo etc. If they are just submitting to the free ones then there is less chance of your links getting approved and sticking around.
Thoughts?
Posted in SEO News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
January 4th, 2010
Image credit: SEO
Do any of you get annoyed when you see usability and web design sites with phat PageRank scores of 7, 8 or 9 out of 10 whilst our very best SEO sites are only getting a score of 5 or 6? I do, here are 4 really popular SEO websites that I think deserve higher PR scores:
1/ In my honest opinion SEOmoz.org should have a PageRank score of at least 7/10 on its homepage. There are 156,000 organic links pointing to it and the SEOmoz.org domain has 1.8 million links in total including link from places like the New York Times and the BBC – the kind of links you drool over. SEOmoz haven’t cheated the system, they got those links because they are incredible at what they do, so why are they not getting the PageRank they deserve?
2/ Next up is SEO Book, another website that should have a PageRank 7/10 on its homepage, but it doesn’t because someone at Google thinks we need to be kept in check. The site has a similar link profile to SEOmoz with 176,000 links pointing at its homepage and there are about half a million links pointing to the SEOBook.com domain in total including dream links from places like The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal.
3/ Jim Boykin’s site We Build Pages has attracted organic links from places like Search Engine Land and Labnol.org thanks to it having kick ass articles published on its blog. Plus the free SEO tools that it offers have gained the site loads. The WeBuildPages.com domain has around 32,000 links pointing to its homepage and about 48,000 links in total. Currently the We Build Pages homepage only has a PageRank score of 5/10, the amount of quality links it has should easily make it a 6.
4/ The BigMouthMedia website has been around for years and it has some amazing links from places like Wired and W3 thanks to it having white papers published on it and about 5 years worth of industry news. According to siteexplorer there are about 26,000 links pointing to the BigMouthMedia homepage and there about 38,000 links pointing to the site as a whole. The BigMouthMedia homepage only has a PR score of 5/10.
Stop spanking our PR scores Google!
Posted in SEO News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
July 31st, 2009
Image: Seoco.co.uk code in Chrome
I haven’t really used Chrome that much for work yet, all I have been using it for so far is watching TV shows and movies online – DIVX videos download about 10 times faster then they do with Firefox and IE.
Anyway, I just clicked to view the source code of this blog for some reason and I saw the jazzy colours that Chrome displays when you are viewing source codes. Looking at code is really boring so I think its cool that Google have made it a little easier on the eyes.
Once all of the SEO tools I use are out in Chrome, I may well be making a full switch.
Posted in SEO News By David Eaves, a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
July 24th, 2009
Thanks to the post that our writer Shaun did about interestingly shaped communities on Google maps there have been many thousands of visitors on this blog in the last week, it went really viral. Altogether the post has had over 67,000 unique visitors and many of them clicked onto the view larger map links to go and see a bigger map on Google.
I ran a report using my premium MyBlogLog account to see how many readers clicked onto the Google.com domain from this blog in the last week and then I ran one to see how many readers came from the Google.com and Google.co.uk domains, here are the results:
- This blog sent Google – 2097 visitors
- Google sent this blog – 1794 visitors
So in a bizarre case of role reversal this week I have sent Google about 15% more traffic then it sent me.
The vast majority of the Google traffic came from Google reader not from search, I wish this blog got that much search traffic.
Posted in SEO News By David Eaves, a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
June 19th, 2009
About a month ago I got a link exchange request from a guy called Suny:
“Dear Webmaster,
First of all let me introduce myself – I am Suny, Link Manager
handle online marketing for my client http://www.sunyseocompany.com
To increase the link popularity of my client’s site , we are now looking for triangular Link swapping with some good quality sites. You are already aware that Triangular Link swapping is much more popular and beneficial than Reciprocal Link exchange . This way both the sites gets the benefited . I would request you to place my client’s link at your site. ( please add my site at least page rank(1) page.)
Here are details of my site :
Url : http://www.sunyseocompany.com
Title : Professional SEO Company
Des: SEO Company ‘SEO Visions’ is home to suny and eajaz, experts in Search Engine Optimization, Traffic Building and Internet Marketing. Increase your return on investment online with us today.Email:-suny@sunyseocompany.com
Or you can simply use the following Linking code:
a href = http://www.sunyseocompany.com > Professional SEO Company SEO Company ‘SEO Visions’ is home to suny and eajaz, experts in Search Engine Optimization, Traffic Building and Internet Marketing. Increase your return on investment online with us today.Email:-suny@sunyseocompany.com
I will add your link at my site on Page Rank. choose any one site ;-
http://submitexpress.we.bs :- page rank -4
Please forward me your linking details along with confirmation where my link have been added by you.
Hoping an early and positive response from your side.
Have a nice day ahead 
Best Regards”
All sounds pretty good right? Wrong, the site Suny is offering me a link on is an exact rip off the Submit Express UK website and he had used the old blackhat PageRank 10 trick to fake the PageRank, when he 1st sent me the email his website http://submitexpress.we.bs was showing a PageRank 4/10.
I knew he had faked it because at the time if I looked at the Google cache of http://submitexpress.we.bs it went straight to the cache of http://www.submitexpress.co.uk.
If I had of gone for his deal I would have got no real link as the site he was offering me a link on was not even included in the Google index.
What this guy was doing was wrong on so many different levels so I emailed Submit Express and told them what he had done.
Today I got I new email from Sunny that was pretty much the same as the last one only this time he was offering me a link on a new URL:
“I will add your link at my site on Page Rank.
http://www.seocompanys.we.bs/ page rank -5″
If you check right now that site that he is offering me a link from: http://www.seocompanys.we.bs is an exact clone of SEOCompany.ca and if you click on the link below:
Google cache of: http://www.seocompanys.we.bs
You will see that the cache of seocompanys.we.bs just goes straight to the cache of seocompany.ca. This is because Suny has used the old redirect trick.
This guy has really gone the extra mile with the link exchange scam, I bet a few people have been taken in by the prospect of a nice link from a PR4 or PR5 site.
I feel sorry for the people who are getting ripped off by this guy so I have outed him. I am surprised that the fake PageRank trick still works.
Posted in SEO News By David Eaves, a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
May 12th, 2009
