Category General SEO

Left (and Right) of Center

How well-rounded is your SEO knowledge these days? SEO blogs are no different from any other form of media in that they represent the author’s agenda. Whether this agenda is a deliberate attempt to convert you to a certain belief…

Women, For Pity's Sake, Don't Compute

Warning: if you’re a miserable misogynist, stop reading now, as this post contains information suggesting that women might not actually be as stupid as you seem to think we are. Judith’s recent post about women in tech drew a comment…

On Being A Woman (In Tech)

This weeks Girl Geek Dinner (which is more snacks than actual dinner) is about Women in Technology and breaking down the barriers. Another topic on the blog and elsewhere has been about the perception of women in technology. Lisa had…

How Should You Vet A Referral?

I was recently approached by someone who immediately had that demanding vibe that so heavily annoys me and makes me get more frown lines, and that encounter has caused me to rethink how I vet a client, both for my…

Avoiding Footprints

My husband refers to me, lovingly I AM SURE, as Dr. No. That’s because I am a bit like Tard, the Grumpy Cat, not Joseph Wiseman. I’m not Canadian, for God’s sake. For the record, if there’s one thing that…

Musings on the Bottom Half of the Internet

“Never read the bottom half of the internet, that’s where the bad things live.” It’s mantra repeated by many. I’m referring of course to the comments, which as ‘bottom half’ indicates are situated a long old scroll down the page…

Predatory Thinking for SEOs

I was fortunate enough to attend BrightonSEO a couple of weeks ago – big love to Kelvin and the team for organising another fantastic event. For me the stand out presentation of the day came from Dave Trott on Predatory…

Welcome Hannah Smith aka Hannah Bo Banna!

The SEO Chicks have big plans of expanding and actually regularly blogging in 2012 (yay) and have already welcommed Annabel Hodges to our team. After racking our brains for…well 2 seconds really (we knew who we wanted to approach really)..we…