July 2009

Reciprocal Linking – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

July 31, 2009

A few of my recent posts have put a somewhat negative light on reciprocal linking and in today’s post I wanted to fully explain my position on reciprocal links. There are Lot’s of ideas on reciprocal linking some of them are fine others can actually cause your site to be penalised, let me run through [...]

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Artificial Content Networks and Link Farms – Outdated and Dangerous

July 29, 2009

As part of an SEO report it is often recommended that a site needs more links from a more diverse profile. When speaking with the clients there is always one person that comes up with the great idea of buying up 50 – 100 domains and using them to link back to the home site. [...]

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Enhancing Localized Search Position

July 26, 2009

There has been a little talk this week about how Google is ranking sites for local terms. Everyone has blown it up like some unique fresh piece of news, when in fact your link profile has always been a powerful factor in how you rank for local terms. Just to clarify the point, when Google [...]

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SEO Content Writing – How To Produce Great Content That Increases Rank

July 24, 2009

A lot of webmasters who dismiss SEO as gaming the system usually come out with the broad statement “Just create unique quality content”, hmmm, how true do you think that statement is? Well to be honest creating quality content is part of SEO, but ask these same webmasters what quality content is and the answers [...]

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Link Exchanges and PageRank are the Currency of the Web? What!

July 22, 2009

OK today I am going to have a little bit of a rant, so if your not the type of person that likes reading passionate ramblings it may be best to click away now. I read a lot of blogs and forum’s around the subject of SEO/Marketing and come across a lot of rubbish, especially [...]

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Link Over Optimisation – Don’t Get Found Guilty!

July 19, 2009

My last few posts have really emphasised the importance of links to your SEO campaign and I have actively promoted certain strategies and good rates at which to build links. In this post I want to warn against a few things which could potentially see some of your links devalued or could even see your [...]

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PageRank 0 Links and Linking Page Relevance

July 17, 2009

This post is a follow on from my previous two studies on Domain age and sites that rank well in Google quickly. A Quick Recap I first of all tested the first 2 pages of Google for competitive keywords such as search engine optimisation, seo services, seo, seo company. I then got all the data [...]

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