SEO Tutorials

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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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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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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5 Link Building Myths You Should Ignore

August 9, 2010
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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 [...]

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Tracking Your Search Traffic – How to Quickly Spot Issues with Your Organic Traffic and Check Longtail Performance

May 30, 2010

If you are serious about SEO and increasing search traffic then it is important to track it, not just by logging into your analytics everyday but by keeping in depth records of which keywords are driving traffic and any abnormal fluctuations. Working in an SEO agency it is important to track this for clients, you [...]

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Keyword Difficulty Made Easy

April 11, 2010

Testing keyword difficulty has never been a straight forward task, what do you test with? Links in? Links to domain? Search Volume? Awords Competition? The truth is that all of them contribute toward the ‘keyword difficulty’ factor. This is another post when I am going to sing the praises of the SEOmoz crewe, since they [...]

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Using Exact Match Domains to Targeted Traffic

March 28, 2010
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Recently at Branded3 we have been experimenting with exact match domains and exploring opportunities to increase relevant and hopefully profitable traffic. I don’t know how much experience you have had in trying to register these types of domains or attempting to rank them but it is really really easy and you will be surprised how [...]

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