Year: 2017

One major issue with blogging is the ability to continuously create great interactive content as often as possible. It is belabouring sometimes and requires a good amount of effort to arrive at those posts that are shared on social media and stand out. The good news is that you are not alone. Everyone has seasons … Continued

Our Managing-Director Mark Bryce-Sharron was recently interviewed by Maria Silvia Sanna from the team over at Wordlift. For those not in the know, Wordlift is an SEO tool that we’ve found is an essential short cut when working with the semantic web and structured data. Mark spoke to Maria about his unique insights into the semantic … Continued

When starting a new web build/SEO project, one of the first checks we perform is to ask a very simple question. Does the website we are working on look like/feel like a “big” brand and does the site comply with Google’s web quality guidelines. What are Google’s Web Quality Guidelines? In addition to its algorithms, … Continued

It has been well documented that Google has been using a machine learning/natural language processing technology called “Rankbrain” (which is an extension of its Hummingbird algorithm) to help deliver more relevant search results since 2015. Since the start of 2017/end of 2016 there has been a significant observable shift in the type of results returned … Continued

When SEO companies are working on a client’s project, they need effective analytical and tracking tools to monitor the traffic and online growth of the website. Agencies that are working under a strict budget can use some of the most beneficial yet free SEO tools that the market currently offers. Free and freemium tools are … Continued

Category: SEO

I didn’t intend to get into SEO, and I definitely didn’t expect to end up running my own company. Rather, I started out thinking I’d be a first responder (paramedic) or social worker of all things. In college, I dropped out of computer science and took philosophy and psychology, the transition into SEO happened purely … Continued

Category: Business advice

Once upon a time (4-5 years ago), on page SEO involved forcing your primary keyword into the title, headings and body text of the page you are trying to rank.  Not too dissimilar to the way Yoast SEO and most bloggers guide users nowadays.   If you wanted to rank highly for a specific term, you … Continued

Back in 2014, Sussex SEO we went looking for a solid UK WordPress host to partner with and stumbled onto FreshSites. We have had a really good experience with them and have since built a strong partnership thus felt it was only fair to give them a shameless plug on our site: What Makes FreshSites … Continued