Geoff Kenyon is an SEO Consultant in the Seattle office and is determined to find the best burrito in Seattle. Outside of work he spends his time playing ice hockey, building igloos and eating maple syrup.
Blog posts by Geoff Kenyon:
I’m not a huge fan of most WordPress category pages. They tend to be duplicate content or thin/template content. On top of that, a lot of people use them really badly (such as bloggers who make up new categories every Continue reading »
This isn’t a tactic heavy post. Instead, I want to focus on something more foundational. Effectiveness. Being an effective SEO consultant is about more than knowing SEO and doing the work, it’s about getting things done. Paddy wrote about this Continue reading »
It frequently seems like every new client wants a list of quick wins at the start of the project but they have already done most of the quick wins. They have content, they have page titles that don’t make me Continue reading »
If you’re working in-house, it can be difficult to convince managers that you should be spending your time doing link building. There are many possible reasons for this, a number of which are misconceptions. Some of the more common reasons Continue reading »
Between shopping almost exclusively online and working with eCommerce sites, I tend to see a few common problems repeatedly. This post is about the ones I have come across most commonly. Many of them are pretty basic SEO issues, like Continue reading »
Video content should be part of your content strategy if it isn’t already as people really like it and it can be easier to rank video content for competitive keywords than ‘normal’ content when video results are incorporated into the Continue reading »
When you are launching link bait and doing manual outreach for it, you should search for similar content and find who has linked to that content before. This will leave you with a list of people who are interested in Continue reading »
With the very public outing and penalizations of some large high profile sites in the last few months, the issue of time based penalties was given prominent exposure. These penalties lasted 30 days and 60 days. I wanted to share Continue reading »
While link building is one of the more flashy parts of SEO, it is also probably the most time consuming SEO effort that most folks undertake. The difficulty with link building is that it doesn’t scale well; for most folks, Continue reading »
A lot of link building is very manual work, especially when you are trying to get high quality links. As a result, I spend a fair amount of time using (somewhat) advanced search queries to look for link targets in Continue reading »
