Freelance SEO Consultant

Welcome to SEO Doctor, the website for freelance SEO consultant Gareth James.  Here you will find details about my SEO services along with information about the art and science of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).

If you are new to SEO, please vist the SEO articles section. This area was created to give clients a better understanding of SEO and its role in marketing strategy.

For people who are familiar with SEO, you can read my SEO Consulting blog on the current trends and news in the industry.  The blog will also feature guest posts from some great search marketers.

Why use a Freelance SEO Consultant?

Using a freelance UK SEO will be considerably cheaper than using a company/agency.  My technical knowledge also ensures a high level of quality, compared to 2nd world outsourcing.  I have built a powerful network of freelancers to get various other jobs done from manual data entry to PHP programming. I also work in a white label capacity for marketing and web design agencies and work across all industries.

Latest Search Marketing News

>> Google Mayday Update impacts on Longtail Traffic
>> Google’s Caffeine is being rolled out
>> Google expands personalised search results
>> Google starts showing real time search results in the SERPs

From the SEO Doctor Blog

Link Decay And Link Equity Preservation

The majority of link building posts I see focus on acquiring new links, but what about your existing links?  Once you have a strong link profile, this needs to be monitored and consolidated.  You don’t want your best links to drop off.  This post looks at ‘link decay’ also know as ‘web decay and ‘link

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Link Building FAIL: 5 Kinds of Unnatural Links You Don’t Want

  This is a guest post from Tad Chef  (Onreact), you can check out more of his blogging on SEO 2.0 and over at SEOptimise. Over the years Google has maintained that inbound links can’t hurt your site yet many webmasters get notified via Google Webmaster Tools of “unnatural links” when they get penalized. What

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IP Delivery and Geo Targeting by SebastianX

This is a guest post from the elusive SebastianX , you can read more of his rants on his excellent blog Sebastian’s Pamphlets. So Gareth James asked me to blather about the role of IP delivery in geo targeting. I answered “That’s a complex topic with gazillions of ‘depends’ lacking the potential of getting handled with

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