Assessing Link Signals in 2012 – Has Exact Anchor Text Had Its Day?

March 4, 2012

Well it’s been a whirlwind start to 2012, Google Panda continues to roll out and reshape the web and only a week ago Google announced 40 changes to search quality signals. The SEO world was particularly interested in the turning off of a link evaluation signal Google have been using for the past 7 years. [...]

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Advanced SEO Strategies for 2012

February 28, 2012

Advanced seo strategies 2012 tfm&a Tim Grice View more presentations from timgrice. As with the last set of slides, I will be adding some commentary later.

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Improving SEO Through Social Media

February 28, 2012

Improving seo through social tfma View more PowerPoint from timgrice I’ll be adding some covering notes later.

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Consolidating Link Signals? International Link Building Just Got Easier, Maybe.

February 6, 2012

International SEO has always been a little tricky, mainly because historically Google has done such bad job of displaying the right pages in the right locations. So trying to get your websites indexed, ranking and being served to the right people in the right place can be somewhat of a chore. Best practices for making [...]

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Press Releases & Link Building

January 24, 2012

I recently wrote a post for the YOUmoz section of SEOmoz which detailed some findings from a quick survey I did. The survey detailed what companies are spending on press release distribution services and 20 SEO’s from various UK agencies answered the survey. You can read the full post here – Are You Wasting Budget [...]

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Creating the Right Offsite Signals for Maximum Ranking Impact

January 22, 2012

Link building is never easy and is probably the most frustrating task an SEO has to undertake. There are many different tools and techniques designed to help you be a more effective link builder, however if you use them without a plan or in isolation of each other you’ll soon find that it just doesn’t [...]

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Negative & Positive Link Spikes – Tripping Anchor Text Filters

December 2, 2011

The term ‘link spikes’ has been around a long time, usually to describe unnatural link patterns that Google uses to put the smack down on overly aggressive link builders. Using the term in this way is correct and yes, creating crazy link spikes in your link profile will put you in trouble. What people don’t [...]

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