As an SEO agency we get asked all the time how long does SEO take? Well I am sure you if you have asked the question you have been told that is takes around 6 – 12 months to begin seeing some really good SEO results. But this depends entirely on the competitiveness of the keywords you are optimising for.

Your SEO Agency has probably already told you that there are hundreds of ways the search engines determine the relevance of your site. No-one apart from the search engines themselves actually know what these factors are. Each factor is weighted differently so some are more important than others.

At our internet advertising agency we have regular catch up meetings between the teams to discuss tasks which our staff perform. One of the things that comes up time and time again is the task of link building it is the hardest task in SEO. Building back links to a website takes time and creativity.

There are many different ways in which to build back links some of the top techniques include:
•    Directory submissions
•    Social bookmark links
•    Web 2.0 links

Sometimes your internet advertising agency will limit the number of keywords that it optimises your website for. Why would you do that? It is not uncommon for an SEO agency to say “we can guarantee you first page rankings on these 3 words”.

Now it might sound good, but you are severely limiting your SEO campaign by doing this and missing out on millions of other search terms. Often SEO experts will tell you can they can get you first page rankings for keywords that have very little search volume.

Website packages come in all different types and price brackets. As an internet advertising agency we offer all kinds of website packages that fall into many different categories.

Types of website packages:

•     Website design package
•     Online marketing package
•     Search engine marketing package
•     Banner advertising package

Do you have a .eu domain? Today someone from the SEO agency team is looking at .eu domains and whether they have any SEO value.

Our research has uncovered most .eu domains were registered to prevent
cyber squatters or in a land grab capacity. Many of the .eu domains
will be pointing to already established company domains and few will be
used in their own right. This is probably the main reason why we don't
see many .eu results in the SERPS (search engine results pages).

Many businesses buy multiple domains. There are a couple of reasons for this one is to buy all the variations of your branded URL to prevent any competitors or affiliates stealing your site traffic. The other is buying keyword rich domains hoping to benefit from the type in traffic. Type in traffic is when someone goes directly to the address bar and types in for example seoagency.com.

If you have a website you are probably doing SEO yourself or using an SEO agency. But do you know whether your SEO efforts are growing your business? If you are going to put time and money into optimising your website you need to be sure your efforts are paying off.

How do I know if my SEO is working?

As an SEO agency we are pleased to reveal global searches were up by around 50% on the previous year. The continued growth in the use of search engines will continue to highlight the importance of search engine optimisation. For many internet advertising agencies search marketing is becoming the primary method of online marketing.

SEO steps

The 13 SEO steps. Does your seo agency do all of them?

There are so many things that go into a well thought out SEO campaign. It is more than just link building and writing content. There are lots of technical aspects to seo which involve getting the foundations of your website right before you can move forward with driving traffic.