May
17

How to Rank Number 1 on Google

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OK firstly if you just got here thinking there really is a magic stick which is going to get you to the top, then think again. If you landed here for some other reason and need a laugh, check out this mash up video of Google’s Matt Cutts telling us how to make it to Number 1……… Well it made me  [...]

May
16

Are People Really Caught Out By This?

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I’ve received a few emails recently about buying expired domain names, now whilst this is a very valid way of getting a domain name you specifically want, the emails I’ve been getting are very misleading. And, while I’m thinking about it, where did they get my email address from anyway? The emails Here is an example of the emails they have been sending out: “Time is approaching for domainx.com to become available, with a minimum amount of time left, we want to ensure you that you can receive domainx.com at a responsible price. You still have time to express interest:  [...]

May
10

How to Recover from the Google Penguin Update

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How to Recover from the Google Penguin Update

Since my last post about the Google Penguin update which was implemented on 24th April I’ve been doing a fair bit of research into what may cause a page or website to be affected by it. Whilst it’s far to early to have any conclusive answer, there does seem to be some agreement about what factors are most likely to have effected peoples sites and it seems to revolve around over optimisation of specific pages, however, it seems likely that this could drag the rest of the site down with it. Please bear in mind that these are initial thoughts and it will take significant testing time  [...]

May
9

Penguin and Panda in April

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Penguin and Panda in April

2 Major Google Updates in April 2012 The latest phase of Google updates have sent shock waves through the SEO community, with many sites and probably more importantly, their clients sites losing massive volumes of traffic due to decreases in ranks, I’va already heard stories about in house SEO’s losing jobs over it and agencies losing customers. It seems that most sites have been affected in one way or another, with some serious losers (see the graph below) many losing out on a few keyword terms, but of course this leaves everyone else who would have moved up into their place. I  [...]

Apr
9

Google Updates in March

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Google Updates in March

As you may or may not already be aware, depending if you are in the SEO industry or not, Google have started to tell us about the changes they are making to how they rank pages. Now, don’t get too excited though, the underlying algorithm is still a closely guarded secret, although there are certain assumptions which can be made from the changes which they publicise, along with a few little nuggets, albeit usually rather ambiguous ones in the posts themselves. 50 Changes in March Alone Anyone who tells you that Google did over 50 or 100 updates last year is right, although their  [...]

Mar
25

Improving Blog Traffic

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Improving Blog Traffic

I was planning on writing an article about how to increase traffic to a blog today, however I remembered a post that Rand from SEOmoz did earlier in the year, so went to find it. I did and having read it through realised there was actually very little to add to what he had already said on the subject, so decided to make this post more of a referral over to his original article which you can find here. How do I get more visitors to my blog? This is a pretty common question and there is no quick and easy answer, however his post lists the 21 tactics suggested for long term blog traffic, just  [...]

Feb
15

Are Links Still Important for SEO?

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Are Links Still Important for SEO?

People have been talking recently about the diminishing importance of links in SEO, but I for one have seen no proof of this. Granted, other metrics are undoubtedly used such as title tags, content and more recently social metrics, however, as far as SEO is concerned, backlinks still play an important role and I can’t see this changing in the foreseeable future. Types of Links Now, I don’t mean blog comments, in context or directories here, that’s a topic for another post altogether, but what I’m talking about are the links which bind the internet together overall, the  [...]

Jan
25

Punctuation in Search Results

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Google Search now Includes Punctuation Google has recently started to include punctuation and symbols in it’s search results, they are including full stops, commas, the hash symbol, percent, at, the pipe symbol (the | which is commonly used in title tags. you can see a full list of the symbols included at this recent post on search engine land, quite why they have done this seems a bit of a mystery to the SEO community so far. One thought is that it’s all to do with Google+, as if you now search for this it is listed with the + symbol included, although it does seem a bit extreme  [...]

Jan
5

Web Directories in 2012

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Should I submit my website to internet directories? Before I answer this I need to be clear that there are 2 types of link directories, basically good and bad ones. They can fall into the latter category for a wide number of reasons. But in essence yes, it seems to be becoming increasingly beneficial to add sites to the good directories again. I say again, because 5+ years ago, you could push a website onto the first page of Google with nothing but web directory links (and optimised pages, of course), however this left the field open to swathes of low quality directories and services to  [...]

Dec
16

Should I use Underscores or Hyphens in the URL?

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The old hyphen – or underscore _ question again An existing client is planning a site redesign for next spring and has been asking me quite a lot of questions about the best way to change the site, she asked the old question about if hyphens or underscores are better word separators in the page name of a url. I automatically said hyphens are best for a new site, but underscores are OK if the site already uses them. Then I thought about it for a moment and said I would double check, having not looked into it for a few years, and wanted to be 100% sure that I was still offering the right  [...]

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