A new project for the SEO team

Angel's SEO team is working on EssayCoursework.com - a website that offers a massive database of coursework to students (the largest in the UK) as examples to help them write their essays and dissertations. All of the work has been submitted to universities by other students so there's no chance students can use it improperly - it genuinely is a great resource for them.

EssayCoursework.com is keen to promote a custom help service and our task is help them rank for this. When a student can't find a good example to help them in the essay bank, they can ask to have one written. It's a bit like having your own book or journal written for you, nice!

We've had this task for less than a week and already we've achieved #37 in Google.co.uk for them. The Angel team will be promoting the coursework writing services using various internet marketing techniques and we're pretty confident we'll be seeing a top 10 result for them very soon - as always, watch this space!

Editing, marking and proofreading

Angel's currently working on ScanMyEssay.com, home to Viper the plagiarism checker. This is a really exciting project for us - the site ranks well for many terms relating to the plagiarism checking service, but we're keen to improve its exposure for essay editing, essay marking and essay proofreading, as well as proofreading services in general. In the past, this site had no ranking for those terms at all. We've been working on the site for about four weeks in relation to those terms and we've managed to secure #6, #18, #43 and #55 positions so far. These are moderately to highly competitive terms so we're really excited by the progress. Watch this space!

Website health checks

Angel is offering a comprehensive website health check produced manually by an SEO professional which gives you an indepth understanding of where your website is at and what you need to do to improve traffic and rankings. Click here: website health check

Want to increase your Facebook business page following?

You’ve got a Facebook business page but have got little or no followers and don’t know how to change that?

There are lots of little things that you can do that are pretty simple to implement.

A successful Facebook page needs to reward loyalty, have quality posts, appeal to your audience, use tagging and acknowledgements to reward fans for sharing your posts. Your page also need to encourage friends and fans to get involved, remember your Facebook business page is aiming to be a community for your followers to share information and experiences with you and your other customers.

Some things you can do to help increase your Facebook following is inviting your current friends list and get them sharing your posts and spreading the word to their friends.

Something else that you can do is to include a link on your website and at the bottom of your emails along with including a link in your email campaigns.

If you would like to know more ways to increase your Facebook business page following, read how to increase your Facebook business page following.

Does CSS design help with SEO?

Over time web design has improved, mainly due to the advance in the Internet and new technologies, user demands and expectations. Websites are now designed and developed using CSS/HTML. CSS design has become a web developer’s best friend along with reducing costs for website owners. CSS design is now favoured by all most all web developers over table based design, which is now classed as old practice and not favoured by search engines either, so if a website is still designed in tables it doesn’t rank as well as a CSS/HTML designed site.

If you would like more information about how CSS design can improve your website and its search engine rankings, read -Benefits of CSS/HTML design – tips to improve SEO, accessibility and manageability. The article covers some of the main benefits of CSS, tips to improve your accessibility using CSS, tips for improving your SEO, along with tips for improving the manageability of your website.

XML video sitemaps, your new best friend for video content

So you’ve got great video content (if you want to create your own video content check out using video as an effective SEO tool. Now what do you do, like with anything you need to inform people that your great videos exist. Google doesn’t see videos like it sees other text and image content so you need to provide Google with as much information as possible to enable it to index your content correctly and highly. Wondering how to do so? Google takes a lot of information through sitemaps the best way is by creating an XML video sitemap. Creating an XML video sitemap will give Google all the information it needs to index your videos.

Want to know more about creating your own XML video sitemap, read creating an XML video sitemap for Google.

Facebook Places

Facebook Places

We’ve had who, what, when and now we have where. Social networking giant Facebook has launched its location lead feature, known as Facebook Places in the UK today, one month after going live the in US.

The new feature is being rolled out gradually and may not be available to all users just yet.

How it works

Facebook Places works by allowing users to check into venues and tag their friends in the same location, and then their friends either accept or deny – much like the photo application.

The idea behind it is that it allows people without smartphones to be included in location based activities without going into all the complex privacy issues that the social network has previously encountered.

With other players in the location based social networking market with the likes of Foursquare, Gowalla’s Passport, etc. Currently you could say that pole position in the location based social networking is still up for grabs. Bearing this in mind, it is easy to see why Facebook has added this feature; there have been rumblings for a good few months that such a feature was around the corner. With the number of Facebook users growing daily, currently over five hundred million active users, it would be an easy estimation that Facebook Places will take the lead in location based social media.

With Facebook Places being a very small part of Facebook very large picture. It is clear that Facebook is now trying to be an all in one service for social networking, much like what Google has done with search. What this space for Facebook next new feature, who knows what they have in store for us next.

Web pages that load fast improve users experience of your site

Having problems with your website load time and losing traffic and sales because of it? There could be many reasons why your page is loading slowly.

For some reasons why your site could be slow loading read Angel SEO’s article - How to improve my site’s speed for Google. The reason your website doesn’t load fast could be very simple, e.g. your images are to big or you have to much content on your page or your page is too long.

Although on the other hand it could be elements that are more complicated and you many need to hire an seo expert (for more information read - Should I hire an SEO expert). If your page loading time is due to your websites structure or styling, it can be fixed by an SEO expert/web developer.

You will be surprised by how much making little changes to your website can affect your websites search engine page ranking; as well as user behaviour on your website. Users behaviour can change by encouraging them to stay on your site longer because they are having a better experience, which in turn makes them more likely to buy or engage with you.

If you would like more advice about improving your page load times, contact SEO Nottingham specialists Angel SEO on 01623 799 277 or email info@angelseo.co.uk.

WordPress v HTML/CSS websites - which is better for SEO?

The SEO world is buzzing at the moment over Wordpress v HTML/CSS websites - which is better for SEO?

Angel SEO’s MD Dave Cain, has recently conducted a study, Wordpress v HTML/CSS websites. The study came back with some interesting findings and proved the case for bespoke websites over template based websites. Read Angel SEO’s study here.

During the study two websites were uploaded on their own domains, one a bespoke HTML/CSS site the other a Wordpress maintained site. To begin with both ranked well in Google, ranking on page one. But after only a few days the Wordpress site started to drop down the ranking, whilst the bespoke site remained on page one. It is important to remember neither site was updated during the study.

For a Wordpress maintained site to be ranked well in Google, it needs to be treated like a blog and updated regular, if not on a daily basis. Whereas bespoke sites that are created in an SEO friendly way continue to rank well because they are created in such a way that they keyword rich and answer a searchers enquiry. Which in turn means Google is more likely to index them higher, and keep them there for a longer period of time.

If you would like bespoke website for your business, contact SEO East Midlands Specialists Angel SEO for a free consultation.

It's all about knowledge at Angel SEO

With great pleasure Angel SEO is pleased to announce the launch of our new SEO Knowledge Base.

SEO Knowledge Base, is a free service offered by Angel SEO. The knowledge base has been designed to be a helping hand to all in-house website managers, whatever their role within the company.

Written in non-technical language, the knowledge base aims to help and advice any one wanting to create and maintain a website, no matter their experience level.

The knowledge base provides specialist advice, tips and some tricks of the trade to help in-house business operated websites be the best they can be, and achieve online success.

The knowledge base include everything from an introduction to SEO to how to design a Google friendly site . To the more advanced link building and using audio adverts. Even the fun stuff, Social Media is covered.

Go check Angel SEO's Knowledge Base today, and start improving your website. Remember knowledge is power!