February 2011

JC Penney SEO – Lazy, Stupid and Deserved

February 16, 2011

I am sure you have read about the JC Penney Google slap at the beginning of the week, they basically spammed their category pages with irrelevant anchor spam. For those of you (like me) in the UK JC Penney are a major US Retailer turning over in excess of 17 billion dollars a year and [...]

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Google Updates Becoming More Frequent & Links Are Counting Sooner Rather Than Later?

February 10, 2011

After all the shouting last year about the state of the SERP’s it seems, as predicted, Google have started this year with a bang, updates and fluctuations in the SERP’s are becoming much more frequent and maintaining top rankings for any sustained period is becoming more difficult. I personally track around 25 competitive terms and [...]

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Visualising & Understanding Where You Need To Build Links

February 6, 2011
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If you’re anything like me you will have been in a position hundreds of times, where you a trying to rank for a given keyword and no matter what you do, you cannot break into that top 5 or hit that first position. Part of you says ‘just keep going & build more links’, however [...]

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