It’s a strange thing that I came to Wordpress late- indeed the only reason I did was on the recommendation of a friend and fellow Manchester based web designer Craig Hammnett who published an interesting example of how effective his blog was – he targeted Manchester Freelance Web Design as an SEO term and within 10 hours was on the first page of Google.

This proves a few things – firstly blogging helps enormously on the SEO front – consistant changes to the home page blog and external link references in the form of free templates etc. just work.

Secondly the SEO agencies charge a fortune for absolutely not much more than the advice I’m going to give here this being seo is not rocket science – links work and constant blogging works – the more relevant content you push out the better. If this ties in with your keywords and meta data then your on to a winner.

My next experiment will be with some content rich mini sites – all pointing to this site, based on key references of Web Design, Development and location specific Macclesfield, Manchester. I may even do some auto posting based around API data although I’m not sure if this will be seen as relevant.