June 2009

I Can Sabotage Your Google Ranking! Using Negative SEO?

June 29, 2009

Thats right, according to a story Forbes, SEO professionals can actually sabotage your search position in order to advance their clients position. They do this by link spamming a particular site, therefore making Google believe your a spammer and subsequently penalising your site, it’s also known as “Google Bowling”. My first thoughts are that this [...]

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The Google Ranking Ride!

June 28, 2009

As part of my work I regularly track rankings on many different keywords in many different niches, some for fun and some for business. These rankings change almost on a daily basis, especially for the newer sites SEO Wizz looks after. You’ll notice the picture at the side is of the desperado roller coaster at [...]

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Natural Link Building – What’s That?

June 26, 2009

I was reading Matt Cutt’s blog this morning and specifically his new post Natural Links are better than non-natural, not a post I would really recommend reading but one that provokes some thought from the title alone. What are natural links? and more importantly how do we build them. My hope is that this post [...]

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How To Process An SEO Campaign

June 24, 2009

There are many people out there who no bits of SEO here and there. Optimise title tags, write great content, get some links, you know that kind of thing. Do you really know how to go about SEO campaigns though? Where to start, how to analyse data and ultimately how to best action your results. [...]

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6 Reasons To Ignore The Nofollow Update

June 23, 2009

This one may come back to bite me but at least I’m willing to stick my neck out. You will all have heard of the recent nofollow news reported by Matt Cutts, if not you can read about it here, PageRank Sculpting. There have been many issues already raised concerning the impact of nofollow on [...]

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Why You Need To Start Blogging

June 21, 2009

One of the main pieces of advice I give to anyone wanting to increase Google rankings, is to start a blog, or maintain the one they have better. Blogging is fulfilling on many levels and will help you build both a personal and professional profile. Some of us blog for monetary reasons, others for promotional, [...]

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How To Encourage Links To Your Content

June 19, 2009

We all know how important it is to build links and the massive impact it can have on our rankings. In today’s SEO industry I honestly believe the days of emailing webmasters is over, as it is time consuming and usually not worth it. The other options we have are content generation and directory listings [...]

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