Factors of a Natural Link Profile – It’s More Important Than Ever

October 10, 2011

Technically SEO could never be classed as natural, you’re undertaking activities to game the engines, whether you’re a spammer or a link bait specialist we’re all trying to achieve the same things, higher rankings and more traffic. That said whatever activity you choose to undertake, you absolutely have to make it look natural, I don’t [...]

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Understanding & Dealing with Pagination Issues for Google

September 22, 2011

Those of you who keep on top of the Google Webmaster blog will have no doubt read about their recent pagination fix, or at least their advice on how to deal with it and become more Google friendly. What is pagination For those of you who aren’t sure what pagination is, in layman terms it’s [...]

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An End To Brand Bidding With Adwords?

September 22, 2011

Just heard the news that Interflora seem to have won their drawn out battle with Marks & Spencer over bidding on their brand name through Google Adwords. You can read the full judgement here and Patrick’s thoughts on it over at Blogstorm. From day one Interflora have been insistent about the fact M&S should not [...]

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Google Multi-Channel Funnels – Simply Awesome

August 27, 2011

If you run an ecommerce site you will have no doubt been frustrated with Google in the past due to the small amount of data it’s been able to provide concerning your conversion funnel. Many will have turned to coremetrics or omniture, however Google have pulled their finger out and changed their attribution model and [...]

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Why Article Marketing Works and Can Be Used as Part of A Legitimate SEO Strategy

August 27, 2011

I have decided to write this post in direct response to the recent White Board Friday over at SEOmoz, I agree with some of the advice given but I think it was put across in the wrong way. The post basically portrayed article spinning & mass article distribution as a ‘scummy’ strategy and condemned all [...]

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Why Link Wheels Can Dodge Google Filters and Stand the Test of Time

August 1, 2011

After watching a recent video on Shoemoney and reading a rather excellent article on SEOmoz by Justin, I felt inspired to talk about a subject that everyone seems to dance around… Link Wheels, do they work? Don’t they? How can Google filter them. Shoemoney interviewed one of the guys from Link Wheelers making some pretty [...]

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How Rogue SEO Companies Systematically Destroy Online Businesses

July 24, 2011

This isn’t something I like writing about but the fact is a lot of so called SEO companies are defrauding their clients, misleading, mis selling and flat out lying most of the time. I am not going to name the SEO company in question but you can be assured they appear in the top 5 [...]

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