27Jan
I’m a designer working for what is predominantly an SEO company, so I pretty much sit on the fence between the two. So it frustrates me when I read so much bad press about SEO within the design community, mainly by people that are ill informed about the industry, even though it so closely relates to their own.
The problem is that most designers have limited exposure to the good side of the SEO industry and too much of the bad. Seemingly some designers forget how the bad eggs in our industry affect people’s perception of us, and thus don’t get that the same happens in the SEO industry too.
But there are good SEO’s that are trying hard to work within the rules and provide their clients with an excellent service and achievable results. They, like designers, attend conferences and read blogs to ensure they keep learning in what is an even more changeable environment than a designer or developer must face.
Continue reading “What designers don’t get about SEO”
10May
Increasingly I’m getting emails with the above mentioned somewhere in the email and really it’s getting annoying for oh so many reasons:
Spam
First there’s the fact it’s spam, yes spam is a problem that is likely to never go away but it doesn’t stop it being an annoyance.
Continue reading “We would like to get your website on first page of Google”
23Mar
Yesterday the well respected web designer that is Paul Boag wrote the post “Why I Don’t get SEO“. As I work a Bronco, primarily an SEO company, I was planning on commenting but originally felt I’d simply be covering the same ground as the other commenter’s. So instead I thought I’d write a response here and try to highlight why SEO is a necessity for many websites.
Paul’s Argument
I think Paul’s post is mainly based on two arguments:
Continue reading “Good SEO should be Invisible”
17Mar
At the Speak the Web conference a bit ago I attended a session about HTML5. Although I knew a certain amount of what was happening with HTML5 there was one part that I didn’t know and I couldn’t quite figure out what affect it would have.
Continue reading “What’s going on with HTML5 and SEO”