Comments on: SEO Analysis of the 5 Dragons Den Entrepreneurs

By: dsf

dsf — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:02:48 +0000

an easy method to gather data about the seo and/or smo is by using http://ministatus.com. one could also download the gathered results in pdf form for later usage.

By: Ammon Johns

Ammon Johns — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:59:53 +0000

Probably worth re-evaluating again now, especially since James Caan has now made a substantial investment in an SEO and Web Dev company. Of course, Caan’s investment in Freshegg.com may be just that, an investment. Caan didn’t start out with his recruitment business so he could get job offers, so there’s no necessity to assume that he invested in an SEO company just to get better vanity search either.

I think he just sees the obvious synergy, as an investor in businesses, in having a company well equipped to launch, relaunch, or simply reinvigorate the online business of anyone he cares to put in touch.

By: Barry Hand

Barry Hand — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:17:21 +0000

They could all improve on their internal linking & directory structure. Poor James Caan, thats just embarrasing. Good write up, Stumbled by me

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:53:48 +0000

I’m guessing most people searching for Peter Jones want the businessman rather than the store. Maybe I’m wrong though but it has to be no worse than 50/50.

Whoever you are it is always best to rank for your own name, especially when your name is what you are trying to brand a TV show on like Peter is.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:30:37 +0000

Interesting – Peter and Jones have to be two of the most common names that exist. Also – as “Peter Jones” is a brand name of the John Lewis group it is unlikely to be trying to get some of Peter’s traffic. SEO is great when comparing like for like sites but note: Theo and Paphitis do not appear elsewhere in anything like the same quantities. John Lewis have also probably engaged in ppc campaigns in the past that will make them more popular. SEO is also ‘optimised’ for a return on investment (good site development, copywriter, etc.) I cannot see the benefit he would have in trying to go from no.2 to 1 when the whole world is trying to get onto the first page. Otherwise, I wonder how much the budget is for getting “George” and “Bush” up to number 1 and – is it worth it?

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:41:06 +0000

I love dragons den, it's one of my favourite programs. I can't wait to be one of the entrepreneurs pitching

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:23:52 +0000

Great round up Patrick – interesting to see them investing in internet companies when their own websites perform poorly in the search engines.