SEO

Has Bing Really Had an Impact on Search and Should This Change Our SEO Efforts?

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In Mar/April last year I made comment on Bing and did a little comparison between Google’s and Bing’s results in terms of what factors I thought differed between them. At that point everyone expected Bing to make a real dent in Google’s search share with Microsoft pumping millions in investment into the project. Now we are approaching the end of 2010 and Bing have had [...]

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My View on the State of the SERPS

Any newbie’s reading?? SERPS = Search engine results pages OK, I am sure most of my readers saw the post by Rand on SEOmoz this week talking about spam in the index, results that offer little value but are still ranking highly. He reels off a load of results in the engines that have a few ‘spammy’ sites in the top ten. He then quickly [...]

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5 Link Building Myths You Should Ignore

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Hello!!! First of all let me apologise it has been almost a month since I last posted. I have been unbelievably busy on various projects and unfortunately the blog has had to take a back seat. However, you should now start seeing regular posts again As I said, over the last 5 – 6 weeks I have been making preparations for various projects, some my [...]

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Links Do Not Have To Be Indexed To Count!

When I hear things in the SEO or internet marketing industry I always like to check them out for myself. I am a typical questioner, despite the authority of the source I have to go out there and trial it anyway, this is sometimes a good thing and a bad thing. I have always been a stronger believer that the only links that can possibly [...]

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The Truth About Buying Text Links

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I am going to discuss something that is usually seen as a big no no when it comes to SEO and have to point out at this point that what I discuss in this article is my own perspective and opinion, it is not the opinion of Branded3 or any of their associates. Paid links is one of those really annoying subjects and my thoughts [...]

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How I Ranked in the Top Five for One of the Most Competitive Terms in the UK

First of all apologies for the lack of posting over the last couple of weeks, work has been busy and the World Cup has pretty much dominated my evenings So now England have been dumped out shamefully I thought it might be a good idea to discuss something pretty positive that has happened to me over this World Cup period, I NOW RANK IN THE [...]

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Google Caffeine is Here, But What Does is it Really Mean for the Internet Marketing World?

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OK I know you will all have read about Google Caffeine going live and yes I realise this post is old news and I am never going to rank for the keyword, however even though I have read a lot about the new update there seems to be very little in terms of how it may affect our SEO efforts, so as well as talking [...]

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