November 2009

Widgets, Blog Comments and Top Commentator Links

November 28, 2009
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This is the first post I have had chance to write this week as I have been working on another project which has meant a great deal of research and content creation. For those of you who didn’t know, as well as an SEO consultant I am also pretty heavily involved in ‘niche blogging’. This [...]

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Google LSI – Is Latent Semantic Indexing A Bit Of A Myth?

November 23, 2009

For those of you who aren’t aware LSI stands for ‘Latent Semantic Indexing’, many marketers jumped on this bandwagon not so long ago claiming Google were using it to identify the meaning of words. I am not going to go into the maths of LSI but will try and give a brief explanation. Semantics involves [...]

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What Is Your Deep Linking Strategy?

November 22, 2009

I often discuss the benefits of building links to deep pages, not only does it increase the overall authority of your domain but it also gives deep pages a better chance of ranking. If you target keywords in your deep pages using the technique I discussed in a post about longtail optimisation, then building links [...]

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On Page Search Engine Optimisation IS Dead

November 18, 2009

Is there any real need for on page optimisation anymore? All of my research on the SERPS seems to be pointing in 1 direction and that is, when it comes to high rankings for competitive terms only your link profile really matters. After all Google is still ranking number 2 for the keyword “caffeine” even [...]

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Mass Article Submissions Are Not Worth It…?

November 15, 2009
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Over the last 3-4 weeks I have really been examining my backlinks, which ones pass the most juice, which ones have a preferential anchor text, which ones are relevant to the content of my page, and this little bit of research may have uncovered something I had feared for a while. One thing I have [...]

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Why Is SEO Always Free?

November 12, 2009
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I guess it is the way of cyber space, everything must be free otherwise it’s not worth bothering with. It is a fact that there is a lot of information online and more specifically a lot of quality information; however does that mean you can find everything you need to know about SEO free? Well [...]

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Link Acquisition Rate and Overall Domain Diversity

November 10, 2009
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I thought I should drop a quick post today about a couple of things that have been on my mind over the last couple of weeks. As always I am constantly trialling and testing new strategies and SEO techniques, some work others flop but it’s a learning experience either way. There are two things I [...]

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