SEOno News

A New Website for Morgan Online Marketing

Published on March 6, 2026 by Steve

Hello! It’s been a while since I updated this old SEO blog of mine – mainly due to other interests and side-projects, including epic fantasy novels and a D&D YouTube channel. (And to be completely honest with you, I kind of liked having my EU Search Awards shortlist post sat at the top anyway.) 😅

But I still do SEO freelancing! Although the website that’d served me well since 2013-14 was in dire need of a facelift.

…So I got it redesigned! And got some new headshots done, too!

morganonlinemarketing.co.uk

I’m actively looking for new clients at the moment (as I type this) – so if you’re interested in working with me, now would be a great time to get in touch! Cheers!

MOM Shortlisted for 2 Awards in the EU Search Awards 2021

Published on March 26, 2021March 30, 2021 by Steve

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 for UK-based EU nationals who are searching for information related to the EU Settlement Scheme (a.k.a. Settled Status) – especially those who might be in vulnerable circumstances.

Without sounding too cheesy, it was an absolute honour to work on the project – and I’m delighted that not only was I able to help a charity to meet and surpass its goals, but that my work has been shortlisted twice in a highly-recognised industry awards.

Big love goes to Carl Morris, who introduced me to the project. Thanks also to Chris Lake of Vestd, who kindly took a look at my entry form and gave pointers.

The winners will be announced on Thursday 27th May 2021. Keep your fingers crossed for me yeah? 🤞

Introducing… Anti-Sell, the Dedicated Website & Blog

Published on July 7, 2020August 13, 2020 by Steve

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 them all to SEOno.

It’s been a while since I launched a new site of my own (the last one TechEvents.Wales, which was back in January 2018 IIRC). It went relatively smoothly, although all the pages’ rel="canonical" tags pointed back to the (now non-existent) test sub-domain’s pages, so I’m glad I caught that issue quickly…! 😆

Given that it’s my newest ~~distraction~~ project, I can’t promise that I’ll be posting any SEO posts for a while… However, one of the first posts I have planned for it is a guide on how SEOs can get more clients – so there is a bit of tie-in I guess. And I plan to target some high-volume keywords with some of the posts, so who knows – maybe it’ll make an interesting case study one day as well.

Anyway… If you’d like to write a guest blog post for it, get in touch. There’s also its own Write For Us page which has some rules and guidelines on it.

As I say at the end of the book: Happy Anti-Selling, folks.

Cardiff SEO Meet is Being Rebranded as Cardiff CEO Meet!

Published on April 1, 2019August 4, 2020 by Steve

** I’m sorry to say that this was in fact an April Fool. Sorry Cardiff-based CEOs! See my AFs from 2014 & 2016. **

Since mid-2016, I’ve run 11 SEO meetup events under the name Cardiff SEO Meet.

But… while SEO is good n’ all, I feel though there’s a bigger, better, grander audience I could be running events for.

And then it hit me! Inspired by 1) some numpty who commented on one of the old Periscope videos trying to correct the speaker by saying “CEO, not SEO” (despite it being an SEO talk and – therefore – the speaker was right and the commenter was wrong), and 2) the fact that at least two past venues have referred to it as a CEO meetup, I have decided to rebrand Cardiff SEO Meet as…

…Cardiff CEO Meet!

Behold, our new logo:

Subtle, huh?

…And our new website: cardiffceo.events (my plan is to redirect cardiffseo.events to it shortly).

I’ll get CEOs to come to the events and talk about all CEOy type things. Who knows… I might even get a CEO to do a talk about SEO! 🤯

And instead of the site review spending 20-30 mins reviewing a website, we’ll do a ‘business review’ instead, where we (the audience) will critique a CEO’s business and business practices.That’s likely to go down so well…! 😃

So there we go. I hope you will join me in celebrating the new vision and direction for the meetup.

‘Cos screw SEO. It’s dead, isn’t it?

Introducing… Anti-Sell: the Sales Book for Freelancers Who Hate Sales

Published on March 27, 2019July 22, 2022 by Steve

Anti-Sell now has its own dedicated website & blog! Check it out at Anti-Sell.com.

I’ve been pretty quiet on the blog over the last six months or so – but for good reason. In addition to doing client work and organising Cardiff SEO Meet stuff, I’ve been writing a book. And now it’s here…

Introducing Anti-Sell: Marketing, Lead Generation & Networking Tips for Freelancers Who Hate Sales.

Where to buy

Wanna just grab a copy? Go here for info & links!

Wanna learn more about how the book came to be? Read on…

The story of Anti-Sell

Truth be told, I never thought I’d ever become an author. I love blogging (the fact that SEOno’s been going since 2011 is proof of that!) but I thought books were silly – after all, books can become obsolete (especially SEO books). But then…

A few years ago, I wrote a post on here titled 20 Ways That Freelancers Can Drum Up Sales During Quieter Times. Following on from that, I had a few more ideas of posts around the topic of sales and networking, aimed at freelancers specifically. Given that this is (mostly) an SEO blog, I wasn’t sure how best to proceed… That’s when I realised that the advice is pretty much timeless, and that each separate post idea I had could be a separate chapter in a book instead. That’s when the idea of writing a book – instead of lots of blog posts – became a plan.

Click to read more!