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Recruiting for a Junior SEO Engineer in Manchester

UP Search Digital are on the look out for a Junior SEO Engineer, working out of our HQ in the centre of Manchester you will have a passion for all things web and have at least 6 months – 1 year of experience within an online/digital marketing, SEO or at least a web based business environment.

Person Specific – you will:

  • Have a high level of attention to detail.
  • Have a good level of understanding of HTML and websites (Understanding of other web languages (example PHP or CMS technologies eg wordpress, magento, modx – a bonus).
  • Be able


6 Deadly Mistakes Made By Many An E Commerce SEO Company

ecommerce seo

Before we talk about ecommerce SEO services think about this. If you want to build a house where do you start? . . The FOUNDATION!

So why then, do I keep seeing time and time again, poorly structured and poorly optimised ecommerce sites that have been “managed” by so called SEO companies?

If your foundation is poor then your structure, be it a building, website or other, will be weak. If your ecommerce site has…


UPSearch HQ

UP Search are on the look out again for new talent – this time for a Junior SEO Engineer, working out of our HQ in the centre of Manchester you will have a passion for all things web and have at least 6 months – 1 year of experience within an online/digital marketing, SEO or at least a web based business environment.

Person Specific  – you will:

  • Have a high level of attention to detail.
  • Have a good level of understanding of HTML and websites (Understanding of other web languages (example PHP or CMS technologies eg


What Do SEO Companies Actually Do?

what an seo company really does

A very good question and one that no doubt comes with a variety of different answers depending on which SEO company you speak to. Some will play on any lack of technical knowledge and simply supply you with an extra large serving of nicely fluffed spiel, while others will drone on about nothing but rankings for certain keywords. . If you’ve ever spoken to or dealt with an SEO company before (that is poor-average) then I bet you still don’t know what they actually do, am I right?

What I want…


Manchester is one of the major cities in the UK and local searches entered into Google that contain the word “Manchester” carry a huge amount of search volume yet despite this, many businesses are still failing to effectively target this region in their online marketing campaigns.

Still unsure whether it’s worth focusing on Manchester in your online marketing? Well a picture is worth a thousand words as they say. To to give you an idea of the commercial opportunity Manchester presents, study the infographic below and let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment:

seo manchester infographic


One of the main things that attracted me to search engine optimisation is that there is a lot more to it than people first think. It’s not just about gaining large amounts of website traffic – if all of these new visitors aren’t easily finding what they want on your site they will leave, it’s as simple as that!

Once someone hits your website, you want to make sure they are fulfilling your business objectives – be it a sale, or a different call to action that will ultimately improve return on investment. This process of ‘converting’ a visitor into…


UPSearch HQ, Friday 15th June 2012,

pirates invade upsearchFriday, a great day and the end of the working week and everyone at UPSearch were busy working away as per usual unaware of the impending danger that was in store!

9:32am and all of a sudden out of nowhere the door bursts open and a rogue pirate storms in . . .

“Aaarrrgggg” . . “Ye landlubbers need to crrross my palm with pieces of eight in order to paaass”

Naturally everyone complied with the demands of the pirate and he seemed content and was about to leave when he noticed an empty…


Everybody in the SEO world is talking about ‘Penguin’, the latest Google update. But if you aren’t too familiar with SEO and the world of Google updates, you might be wondering what all the fuss is about!

What Is A ‘Google Update’

The engineers at Google are constantly updating their search engine algorithm – the algorithm is what ‘decides’ what results you are shown when searching the web, these updates are intended to improve Google users search experience, hopefully showing more accurate results of high quality, relevant sites.
Google is known to update their search engine algorithm up to…


UPSearch HQ

UPSearch are on the look out again for new talent – this time for 2 Junior SEO Engineers, working out of our HQ in the centre of Manchester you will have a passion for all things web and have at least 6 months – 1 year of experience within an online marketing, SEO or at least a web based business environment.

Person Specific  – you will:

  • Have a high level of attention to detail.
  • Have a good level of understanding of HTML and websites (Understanding of other web languages (example PHP or CMS technologies eg wordpress,


Google Panda UpdateThe internet is full of blogs, articles and online courses on how to do SEO. Some give good honest advice, others portray SEO as a mystical dark art and then there are some that simply promote underhanded and what the industry calls ‘Black Hat’ ways of trying to cheat the search engines.

The truth is that SEO isn’t rocket science, it just takes a bit of thought, time and creativity. As a professional Manchester SEO company we always promote and practice ethical techniques of doing SEO; techniques that search engine spiders like.

Perhaps your SEO isn’t working or at…


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