As this blog is about SEO I suppose I should blog about changing jobs. For the past 2 years 10 months I’ve worked at Just Search. The role at Just Search was my first in SEO and I don’t think you could get a better start in the SEO industry. Having a degree in Computer Science and also running the website odd site helped me get into the swing of things. For anyone looking to get into SEO having a Computer Science degree really helps but is not essential, some of the best SEO’s out there have hardly any qualifications.

My job role originally was SEO Account Manager but morphed into Senior SEO Advisor which was basically was doing SEO on the fly during client’s contracts, with some report writing and consultation. It was great fun and most importantly dealing with 100’s and I mean 100’s of sites really helps to build up experience.

The best part of Just Search was the people I’ve met so off the top of my head a BIG THANKS TO Neil, Paul, Gary, Dave, Martin, Caroline, Ahmed, James W, Phil, James S, Adam, Simon R, Adam L, Sadie, Sam, Mark, Rik, Will, Carl, Vip, Daz and loads others…

From Monday I’m going to be working in Manchester City for a company called Amaze.

Best update some profiles over the weekend!

To improve the speed of the site and also to get wider images into posts I’ve changed to a new theme. It’s a free theme from Woo Themes which needs a few little updates but look good so far. To help I used the theme test drive plug in is great for testing your new theme without putting it live.

It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed my Blog Roll list so I’ve made a few additions tonight.

http://blog.arhg.net/ – Andrew Girdword of BigMouthMedia
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk – Dave Naylor of Bronco
http://www.searchcowboys.com/ – Search Cowboys
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/ – Blog Storm
http://www.seomad.com/ – Neil Walker of Just Search

If you have a great blog let me know in the comments, if you keep me entertained for a few months I’ll add your blog to the others.

The site is 1 year old today. Over the past 12 months there has been 105 posts which is one every 3.4761904761904761904761904761905 days which isn’t too shabby.

Maybe I can aim for one every other day?

Rather than spending time on the odd blog post here and there I’ve added a SEO guide section to the site. I’ll be adding a page in there every so often about a specific subject. To start SEO Friendly URL’s which concentrates on the common problem with SEOFURL’s

Head over to “A Simple guide to SEO Friendly URL’s” to hopefully learn something new and useful.

Due to hosting issues I’ve change my domain to .co.uk, it took an hour this morning to move the blog, re-directs and webmaster tools. It took 2 hours to remember the username and password combination to my feedburner account. All should be correct now.

The fourth link to be added to my Blog roll is the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog. It’s the official blog from the team at Google. It’s the best way to get 100% accurate information about the tools, changes and additions to Google’s search engines.

The blog should be subscribed to by SEO of all levels, novice to advance. Post average out at 6-10 per month but when the posts come they will of high quality and generally very useful. Most posts will be regarding releases of new tools to the Webmaster Tools, changes to the guidelines or to clear up an issue discussed in the online community.

So head over to googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com, either sign up via e-mail or better still subscribe by RSS in your Google Reader.

The site went live late last night, after development time on a subfolder. I’ve added a XML Sitemap using the Wordpress Sitemap Generator which is a nice little plug in. Thats been submitted off to Google and we await for the site to be cached for the first time.

There’s still plenty of work to be done, the individual blog pages are HTML invalid and the search box doesn’t display correctly in Safari. It’s important to get this points correct from the start otherwise you’ll be already be putting of potential readers from day one.

Welcome to SEO-4-Free a brand new SEO blog based in the UK. Over the next few weeks the site will be developed, then I’ll start to post and explain the purpose of the site.

To start off a quick list of the work done so far.

• Domain purchased form 123-Reg
• Hosting purchased from www.streamline.net the power user package ¬£47.98 for two years (Then realised if you sign up for a power user package you get a free domain so didn‚Äôt really need to buy the domain from 123-reg)
• Stuck up a holding page on the root
• Installed Wordpress 2.6.2
• Installed the Publicizer theme
• Validated the theme and changed a few bits and bobs.

I’ll keep on updating with the next post about plugins installed on the blog.