Posts from ‘November, 2008’

Recently, there was room in the company for an offsite SEO “Buddy”, as we like to call it. It’s somebody who does a little bit of the legwork on the SEO team - submission to directories, article submission, etc. Basically anything it’s not cost effective for the western world to do. The main SEO team [...]

A number of posts on one particular webmaster forum (Digital Pointless’ “Google Forum”) alerted me to something I wasn’t aware of - Google’s SearchWiki.

Basically, Google’s Search Wiki allows anybody with a Google account to login, and to vote up/vote down search results, similar to what you see on things such as Digg.  These will only [...]

A story that is on the front page of Digg a couple of days ago is about the State of Washington suing an SEO firm. The lawsuit centres around the following points.

Misrepresenting the ability to significantly increase traffic to customer Web sites by achieving top search-engine rankings and failing to deliver other promised services.
Falsely claiming [...]

SEO Quake is one of my favourite Firefox addons to help with SEO (will write down a page with all my favourites shortly). It’s a great way of checking your inbound links, Alexa Rank (which is incredibly important), keyword density (which is also incredibly important), directory listings, whois and all sorts of things I spend [...]

photo credit: Viernest
A common belief (one which I personally don’t agree with) is that Google can detect where a link is on a page and discount it. Sure, ideally I would love my link within a post on a content rich blog, but that’s more for traffic, than SEO purposes. However, Google has taken [...]

A quick post on Baiting for blogs. This won’t be a guide, for a good reason. I am Rubbish at it. I can do one method okay, which I will cover here, but it’s probably the only method I can do to some measure of success. I will discuss the other forms here as well.
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A bit of a tiff has developed around the BBC website, regarding their way of linking out.
Instead of being direct links, they link via a “tracker” (called “go”). This has caused a little bit of a hoohaa (so much so that one slightly sensationally-titled blog post at Blogstorm has got a response from the BBC [...]