I am incredibly, incredibly proud to announce that my freelance business – Morgan Online Marketing – is a double-finalist in the European Search Awards 2021, as you can see on their 2021 Shortlist page. I’m a finalist in two categories – “Best Use of Search – Third Sector/Not for Profit” and “Best Low Budget Campaign (SEO) (Small)” – for my work with the charity Settled. Settled is an independent charity providing information, advice and support to EU citizens in the UK. I worked with them this time last year (Q1 2020), giving recommendations on how they could further optimise their website fo ..read more

Last Friday, I gave a talk at brightonSEO October 2020, the first time it’s been hosted online (as a result of lockdown). It was my third time speaking at bSEO (here are the links for the first two). My talk – titled “Going Solo – The Survival Guide for Freelance SEOs (Present & Future)” – gave advice to aspiring, new, and established freelancers, which – during these difficult times – I’m hoping would’ve been useful to a lot of people. If you missed it live, you’ll need a ticket in order to watch the talk back. However, I can share with you the slides and the talk’s transcript, which I’ll ..read more

As per my previous post, I recently launched a separate, dedicated blog for all things Anti-Sell, over on Anti-Sell.com. One of the posts is likely to be of interest to SEOs, which is why I’m signposting it here as well… How to Get SEO Clients (in a Non-Salesy Way) gives 15 ‘techniques’ for acquiring SEO clients – whether you’re a freelancer or an agency – with sprinkles of tactical ideas and suggestions throughout. As a freelance SEO consultant myself, the vast majority of the techniques and tactics are things that I’ve done myself in order to get new SEO clients – and if there are one or two ..read more

Long-time visitors to SEOno will have probably worked out by now that I don’t post about SEO much anymore. And that I sometimes use SEOno as a dumping ground for other types of posts: namely those related to Anti-Sell (my book), such as freelancing and networking. Well… I’ve had lots more ideas for Anti-Sell-themed posts, so I decided to do the logical thing: anti-sell.com is now its own website! As it says on the homepage, I have plans for a variety of content: more networking tips, guest posts, more case studies and Anti-Sell Stories… It made sense to give it its own space rather than add ..read more

Hello! So… I was meant to give a networking workshop to a bunch of Cardiff Metropolitan University students around mid-to-late March, but then this whole Coronavirus/COVID-19 happened (you might’ve heard of it!), soo inevitably we had to cancel. But the lovely folks at Cardiff Met’s Centre for Entrepreneurship asked if I wanted to do a webinar instead – with (understandably) a focus on online networking tactics rather than offline/face-to-face ones. If you saw my Anti-Sell talks at either Freelance Heroes Day 2019, or Swansea Digital Marketing towards the end of last year, it’s an adapted ver ..read more