Jaamit Durrani | SEO Blog & Web Design Blog by Fresh Egg

Jaamit entered the world of SEO and online marketing having had no formal training in either IT or marketing, and loves the fact that he was able to train himself up for free by reading blogs and online guides. He was previously in charge of search marketing at digital agency Worth before joining the Fresh Egg team in January 2009. He lives and breathes SEO, and equally enjoys technical onsite optimisation and creative linkbuilding campaigns. read more

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Google Removes TimesOnline from its Index

58 Comments 21 April 2010

[Update, 15:10 - www.timesonline.co.uk is now back in Google's index. They went from having 0 pages indexed this morning to a quarter of a million just now. The SEO guys at the Times are saying there was a techinical issue of some sort causing the dropout - I am unconvinced and cannot see how any [...]

Site Speed: What Does It Mean for SEO?

89 Comments 13 April 2010

On Friday Google made official the news that Matt Cutts had mentioned last year, that website page load times were going to become one of the 200+ factors in Google’s ranking algorithms. This is a pretty unusual move from Google – usually (and for obvious reasons) they don’t exactly publicise ranking factors in this way. [...]

The SEOfilms Movie Poster Challenge: Win SES Tickets!

6 Comments 26 February 2010

[Update: I have started adding some of the best entries so far so skip to the entries if you've already seen this post...] A bit of Friday fun and an awesome competition to get your creative juices flowing. Over the last couple of days search marketing types on Twitter have been chuckling and guffawing away [...]

State of the UK Search Industry: SES London 2010 Recap

1 Comment 16 February 2010

We now come to the final session of our coverage of SES London 2010. With interest and spending in PPC and SEO continuing to grow every year in the UK and indeed worldwide, I’m expecting a lot of talk about ‘defying recession’ and ‘unparalleled ROI’. But I’m also hoping that there’s a discussion about the [...]

Travel, Recruitment, Gambling & Retail SEO Strategies: SES London 2010 Recap

5 Comments 16 February 2010

Now were on to the session I’ve been looking forward to the most out of our coverage of SES London 2010. Five heavyweights of the SEO industry sharing their tips and strategies of successful SEO campaigns in the web’s most competitive niches: Dave Naylor (on competitor analysis), Richard Baxter (Travel), Rob Kerry (gambling ) and [...]

International SEO: SES London 2010 Recap

4 Comments 16 February 2010

The fourth session of our coverage of today’s SES London conference is about a topic I’ve been trying to get my head around lately, with more of our clients wanting us to achieve good results and rankings in a number of different countries and global search engines. I’m hoping the speakers here go beyond the [...]

PPC vs SEO Showdown: SES London 2010 Recap

2 Comments 16 February 2010

With lunch over and done with we move to the 3rd session of our SES London coverage, which is a no-holds barred, set for one fall, steel cage challenge between the merits of Search Engine Optimisation vs. Paid Search… No prizes for guessing which side of the fence I stand on, one is for wimps [...]

Real Time Search: SES London 2010 Recap

2 Comments 16 February 2010

On to the second session at SES London… you can see all our SES coverage here or follow me on twitter for random 140-character updates. From Real-Time Search to Dynamic Discovery The first speaker delivers a generic intro on how realtime has become important, how it lead the way with breaking news like Michael Jackson’s death, [...]