Monthly Archives: January 2012

First Page Ranking for Online Marketing Experts

As a Search Engine and Online Marketing Expert I understand that sometimes people ask the question ‘Well if you are an expert why aren’t you on the first page?’ It is a good question, but I must admit to not … Continue reading

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Some Great Examples of Link Bait

There is a huge amount of discussion on the web about links, what makes a link a good one, what should be avoided and what is a great idea, The thing is, as with any other area of SEO, if … Continue reading

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Of Cheats, Penalties and What Google Wants

There is a lot of discussions going on the moment about some new Google rule changes, these concerning the issue of having too many ads on your site. The word is that having too many ads ‘above the fold’ on … Continue reading

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Analysing the traffic on other peoples websites

When you are considering placing links on other sites for SEO / backlinks purposes you don’t really have to know what sort of traffic a website gets, after all, all you want is the ‘Link Juice’ that these links give. … Continue reading

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Buying Links is Bad – But That Does Not Seem to Stop People Buying Them!

As anyone in the SEO world knows, buying links is frowned upon on the basis that these links have not been ‘earned’ and therefore Google will ignore them. Does Google Penalise Sites That Buy Links? Some say that Google even … Continue reading

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SOPA Blackout – Will the USA Go ‘Dark’ on the 18th?

The ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ is certainly causing a lot of concern in the USA, even though it has suffered a bit of a set back in the US House of Representatives. There is also PIPA (The Protect IP Act) … Continue reading

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SEO and Scare Stories….

Lets be clear on this, there are a lot of ‘scare’ stories out there in the SEO world. Some may, just be true but some defy logic and I simply don’t believe all that I read and would advise anyone … Continue reading

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Google make changes to results in the USA – Is it bad news?

Just picked up this story from the lads and lasses that check out what people are Tweeting about and it makes interesting, but perhaps disquieting news. The article that sparked the Tweets appeared in the Guardian on the 11th Jan … Continue reading

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Frequently Asked Quesitions on Search Engine Optimisation and Marketing

The Online Marketing and  SEO world is just so full of facts and figures, and of course hundreds of acronyms (and let’s face it, it is just impossible to remember what they all mean) that it just gets too confusing … Continue reading

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How to use Majestic SEO to Improve Your Linking Structure

One of the surest ways of increasing the rankings for any site is to get more links pointing to it, the other name for these being ‘backlinks’. There are of course many many ways of getting links to a site, … Continue reading

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