Comments on: Guest post: an introduction to SEO http://blog.philippahammond.net/2009/09/23/guest-post-an-introduction-to-seo/ Translation, Linguistics and Freelancing in the 21st Century Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:36:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Technical translations http://blog.philippahammond.net/2009/09/23/guest-post-an-introduction-to-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-1738 Technical translations Tue, 18 May 2010 18:27:25 +0000 http://blog.philippahammond.net/?p=335#comment-1738 Hi Philippa, SEO might be important to translators but there are still many localization companies that don't use SEO in their daily routine and they still have a lot of customers. If you want to get found by customers through search engines, it is essential to do lot of SEO work. Although it's easy to find information on SEO, not many translators know the topic well, that's why I hope Rob will have lot to do in the future:-) Best wishes! Adam Hi Philippa,

SEO might be important to translators but there are still many localization companies that don’t use SEO in their daily routine and they still have a lot of customers.
If you want to get found by customers through search engines, it is essential to do lot of SEO work.
Although it’s easy to find information on SEO, not many translators know the topic well, that’s why I hope Rob will have lot to do in the future:-)

Best wishes!

Adam

]]> By: Andrei http://blog.philippahammond.net/2009/09/23/guest-post-an-introduction-to-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-1562 Andrei Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:59:12 +0000 http://blog.philippahammond.net/?p=335#comment-1562 Rob, thank you for sharing it in a simple and easy-to-understand language, as I am just making my first steps in SEO... Rob, thank you for sharing it in a simple and easy-to-understand language, as I am just making my first steps in SEO…

]]> By: rob http://blog.philippahammond.net/2009/09/23/guest-post-an-introduction-to-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-1275 rob Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:51:13 +0000 http://blog.philippahammond.net/?p=335#comment-1275 Thanks for your comments - it's great to be working in a field where there is a lot of interest in it across many different spheres of experience. @marian - I went to the Nielsen usability week in London a few years ago; definitely a very well run conference with lots of great information. Jakob's weekly email newsletter at www.useit.com often contain some great insights about a wide variety of usability issues. @sarah - it's great to see you've already made some forays :) if you haven't already tried it out, Google Analytics is a great tool for helping to judge your success in the SEO, PPC and usability worlds, which is easy to use yet has a lot of advanced functionality (and is free.) If you have any other questions please comment here or feel free to @ me at twitter.com/robhammond Thanks for your comments – it’s great to be working in a field where there is a lot of interest in it across many different spheres of experience.

@marian – I went to the Nielsen usability week in London a few years ago; definitely a very well run conference with lots of great information. Jakob’s weekly email newsletter at http://www.useit.com often contain some great insights about a wide variety of usability issues.

@sarah – it’s great to see you’ve already made some forays :) if you haven’t already tried it out, Google Analytics is a great tool for helping to judge your success in the SEO, PPC and usability worlds, which is easy to use yet has a lot of advanced functionality (and is free.)

If you have any other questions please comment here or feel free to @ me at twitter.com/robhammond

]]> By: Sarah Dillon http://blog.philippahammond.net/2009/09/23/guest-post-an-introduction-to-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-1265 Sarah Dillon Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:52:00 +0000 http://blog.philippahammond.net/?p=335#comment-1265 Thanks for the great pointers Rob, and what a useful guest-post idea, Philippa! SEO is definitely an interesting beast. I've been experimenting with Google Adwords for a couple of months now by running mini campaigns and seeing what happens. I've been pleasantly surprised how satisfying it is to see a jump in conversions after just a tiny tweak to my ad text or title! What (admittedly little!) I've seen has prompted me to set up a separate website to my blog this past few months, and make full use of my template's SEO-friendly options for titles, post names, tags, etc. I've also been thinking a lot more about how best to use anchor texts within my blog posts and externally on the web... with a focus very firmly on "thinking" rather than any great action, but I suppose every little helps :) Above all my short foray into the mysterious world of SEO and SEM has made me realise that I need a firmer plan around who I'm targeting, and what exactly do I want them to do when they do get to my site. I think that's an incredibly useful insight for just a few hours of tinkering about, and I'm hoping my business will benefit as a result of some of the changes I have planned as a result. It was also interesting to hear Rob say there is a lot of misleading info out there, it definitely seems like there's a lot of hype and I think it would be very easy to get swept away in it all to very little positive effect. So thanks again for the references, I'm looking forward to having a good read! Thanks for the great pointers Rob, and what a useful guest-post idea, Philippa!

SEO is definitely an interesting beast. I’ve been experimenting with Google Adwords for a couple of months now by running mini campaigns and seeing what happens. I’ve been pleasantly surprised how satisfying it is to see a jump in conversions after just a tiny tweak to my ad text or title!

What (admittedly little!) I’ve seen has prompted me to set up a separate website to my blog this past few months, and make full use of my template’s SEO-friendly options for titles, post names, tags, etc. I’ve also been thinking a lot more about how best to use anchor texts within my blog posts and externally on the web… with a focus very firmly on “thinking” rather than any great action, but I suppose every little helps :)

Above all my short foray into the mysterious world of SEO and SEM has made me realise that I need a firmer plan around who I’m targeting, and what exactly do I want them to do when they do get to my site. I think that’s an incredibly useful insight for just a few hours of tinkering about, and I’m hoping my business will benefit as a result of some of the changes I have planned as a result.

It was also interesting to hear Rob say there is a lot of misleading info out there, it definitely seems like there’s a lot of hype and I think it would be very easy to get swept away in it all to very little positive effect. So thanks again for the references, I’m looking forward to having a good read!

]]> By: Marian Dougan http://blog.philippahammond.net/2009/09/23/guest-post-an-introduction-to-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-1258 Marian Dougan Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:45:59 +0000 http://blog.philippahammond.net/?p=335#comment-1258 Am finalising my new web site so this is very well timed and contains lots of useful info. In addition, I'm fresh from the Nielsen Norman Group's "Usability Week" in Edinburgh, so usability and SEO issues are very much in my mind. I highly recommend NNG's tutorials, by the way - eye-wateringly expensive but very useful (for translators, the content ones in particular). Thanks for a timely and informative post! PS Rob sounds like a very useful other half to have... Am finalising my new web site so this is very well timed and contains lots of useful info. In addition, I’m fresh from the Nielsen Norman Group’s “Usability Week” in Edinburgh, so usability and SEO issues are very much in my mind. I highly recommend NNG’s tutorials, by the way – eye-wateringly expensive but very useful (for translators, the content ones in particular).
Thanks for a timely and informative post!

PS Rob sounds like a very useful other half to have…

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