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Website Penalties

Link Over Optimisation – Don’t Get Found Guilty!

My last few posts have really emphasised the importance of links to your SEO campaign and I have actively promoted certain strategies and good rates at which to build links. In this post I want to warn against a few things which could potentially see some of your links devalued or could even see your site penalised. Remember search engines want to show the best [...]

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I Can Sabotage Your Google Ranking! Using Negative SEO?

Thats right, according to a story Forbes, SEO professionals can actually sabotage your search position in order to advance their clients position. They do this by link spamming a particular site, therefore making Google believe your a spammer and subsequently penalising your site, it’s also known as “Google Bowling”. My first thoughts are that this is 100% unethical and anyone who practices it should be [...]

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The Google Ranking Ride!

As part of my work I regularly track rankings on many different keywords in many different niches, some for fun and some for business. These rankings change almost on a daily basis, especially for the newer sites SEO Wizz looks after. You’ll notice the picture at the side is of the desperado roller coaster at Buffalo Bills resort in Nevada. I have had the pleasure [...]

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How To Spot The Google Penalty

One of the most frustrating problems you can come across as an SEO is a Google penalty, in fact the hardest part about it is trying to identify what you have done wrong exactly. Google has many filters in place to catch sites that do not adhere to their TOS and most of the time simply cleaning up the mess is enough for you to [...]

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