Our Get It Done partner ecosystem
Plug in SEO gives you advice on the most effective actions for your website, whether it's building links, joining conversations, creating content or fixing HTML. But what if you don't have the time or skills to do that work? Our solution - Get It Done.
Clicking a Get It Done button, and let us know a little about the help you need, and we'll pass your request on to one or more of our partners, who will get in touch to discuss your needs and quote for the work you need done. No obligation, no fuss.
Our goal is to make it as simple as possible for you to improve your search traffic, with as much or as little outside help as you need. Our partners are qualified experts - no black hat here! And we'll use your feedback to make sure our partners are up to scratch.
If you're an SEO expert, web developer or content creator interested in becoming part of our ecosystem, contact us at hello@pluginseo.com for more details. Black hatters need not apply!
Qlockwork’s keywords on the rise
Following on from our earlier case study, the folks at Qlockwork time tracking just sent us this nice screen shot. They told us, "We loved seeing all those green arrows showing how our keyword positions, visitor numbers and conversions are rising!"
"We've still got work to do - the red crosses are keywords we aren't ranking on yet - but it's great to see evidence that our efforts are paying off. Once you get into the habit, it's easy to check in with Plug in SEO and follow a piece of advice every day. We've found valuable link sources that we would never have identified before, and the benefits are really paying off in terms of increased sales."
Speedier and easier on the eye: it’s the new Plug in SEO
The venerable BBC wasn't the only website with a redesign this week. We've just published a major new version of our online marketing web app at my.pluginseo.com, bringing massive speed improvements and a tidy, consistent design.
For the technically minded we've:
- Reduced our over-the-wire page sizes by up to 75%
- Moved all static content to a faster CDN with more points of presence
- Introduced smarter paging to cut database requests, with client side ajax request queuing
- Added 60% more server capacity
I hope you love the difference.
Sort out those filenames
Search engines can't interpret images*, audio and video so if you're embedding multimedia on your site, it helps to give them a helping hand to identify what that content is. One of the ways they do that is by looking at the filename for the content.
So if you've got an exclusive photo of a new-born haggis, don't just copy the pic straight off your camera and onto your website with the filename IMG4043.jpg. Rename it to something meaningful, like baby-haggis-emerging-from-shell.jpg, to give the search engines a chance of understanding what's in the image.
Presumably the multimedia file is relevant to your business, so try to include one of your keywords or keyphrases in the filename. If we just called that image baby-emerging-from-shell.jpg, omitting the word haggis, the search engines won't identify the real niche that it's relevant to.
It's best to separate words using hyphens or underscores to separate words - after all, that's how most blog and CMS systems construct URLs from your content titles, and it's what URL rewriting tools do to build meaningful URLs from product catalogues, so we know search engines are good at interpreting words separated that way.
*Though they are working on it
Three Little SEOs
Once there were three little SEOs. They went out to seek their fortunes on the Internet.
The first SEO had not gone far when he met a man who said he knew the secrets of the Google, King of Search. The little SEO said to him, "Please, man, give me those secrets so I can build a website."
This the man did, and soon the little SEO had a built a website with the secrets. The days passed, and the little SEO was profiting nicely with visitors from Google's Kingdom of Search.
Soon, along came the Google. He seen that the little SEO was ignoring his rules and was very angry.
He knocked at the door of the little SEO's house and called, "Little SEO, little SEO, stop exploiting my Search!"
But the little SEO answered, "No, no! Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!"
Then the wolf said, "I'll huff and I'll puff, and I change my algorithm!"
So he huffed and he puffed until he changed his algorithm, and no more visitors went to the little SEOs website.
The second little SEO had not gone far when he met a man who was selling an assortment of links and cheap content.
The little SEO said to him, "Please, man, give me those links and cheap content to build me a website."
This the man did, and soon the little SEO had built a website with them.
Just after the website was built, along came the Google. He knocked at the door of the little SEO's house and said, "Little SEO, little SEO, remove these spammy links!"
But the little SEO answered, "No, no! Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!"
The the Google said, "I'll huff and I'll puff, and I'll flag your site as spam!"
So he huffed and he puffed and he flagged the site as spam, and no more visitors went to the little SEO's website.
The third little SEO went to visit the Google.
The little SEO said to him, "Please, Google, give me your guidelines so I can build my website."
This the Google did, and soon the little SEO had built a website. Nicely structured with original content and quality links, helped by his friend Plug in SEO.
Some time passed. The little SEO was getting more visitors every day, and the visitors were buying his product.
After a while the other two other SEOs were jealous because this little SEO was profiting well from his website. They had no businesses of their own left.
Along they went to this little SEO. The other SEOs knocked at the door of the little SEO's house and said, "Little SEO, little SEO, let us spam your comments to send visitors to our websites!"
But the little SEO answered, "No, no! Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!"
Then the other SEOs said, "We'll huff and we'll puff, and we'll report you to the Google!"
So they huffed and they puffed and they puffed and they huffed, and they huffed and they puffed, but the Google wasn't interested because this little SEO had followed his guidelines.
This made the other SEOs very angry indeed. They vowed that they would build more websites to take away visitors from the little SEO's website.
When the little SEO seen what the other SEOs were doing, he created more original content and built links from reputable websites.
The other SEOs just couldn't compete. They were so frustrated they left the SEO business and started a 419 scam instead.
And that is how it came about that this little SEO lived happily, profiting from his successful website with visitors from Google ever after.
Thanks to Three Little Pigs: The colorful story book
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