Was City Visitor Crushed By Panda?

July 12, 2011

After reviewing some of clients traffic this morning we came across an interesting trend. Most people in the SEO field understand how powerful links on City Visitor are but they also know how much traffic they can potentially drive, especially from local terms. Now I have no qualms with the links, they still work well [...]

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Dominate More Rankings With Effective Online Site Hubs

July 8, 2011

First of all let me apologise for the lack of activity on here recently, life is pretty busy at the moment and despite having lots to say the blog has had to take a back seat, however over the last month a lot has happened in the world of search, therefore lots to talk about. [...]

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One Month After Panda, Some Things To Think About

May 13, 2011

So it’s been around a month since Panda hit the UK and even though there has been plenty of commentary around it I think it’s a good idea to go through some findings, I have seen the analytics of over 20 hit websites now and even though there is no clear answer yet there a [...]

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It Doesn’t Matter Where You Point Links, Google Will Pick The Page

April 27, 2011

You will have all seen and heard me mention the fact that Google now seems to be choosing which page of your site to rank based on internal links & on page factors, rather than relying solely on external links and the anchor text used. This all happened at the end of last Summer and [...]

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Anchor Text Variation & Analysing Links in 2011

April 17, 2011

A lot has changed this year so far in terms of how we analyse competitors and particularly their link profiles, no longer is it acceptable to pull the links of the top 20 sites, you need to dig deeper than that thanks to recent changes in Google’s SERPs. The problem is quite straight forward, late [...]

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The Difference Between a Well Ranked Site with Good Traffic and a Top Ranked Site with Huge Traffic

March 31, 2011

I have had very little time to blog over the last couple of months, the industry seems to be booming even more so than a few years ago which means I am kept very busy! Despite the lack of posts (other than quick news updates) there has been loads I want to talk about, Google [...]

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Get Ready For The Next Panda Wave UK!

March 28, 2011

After seeing the traffic drop off on a number of my sites and discussing the Panda effect this morning with Patrick, I decided to do a little more research into the U.S. drop off and how it is hitting other websites. We looked at over 20 different sites and some of the Ecommerce sites ‘stuck [...]

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