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A new TLD launches today. .tel has been released to Trademark Holders of National Effect to register, before the launch to everybody on February 3rd 2009.
Domain goldrushes are fascinating occasions on the internet. Domain launches usually have a ’sunrise’ period before launch, were people can lay a claim on any domain name they want. .asia [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

I often see posts on large webmaster forums such as Digital Point, Sitepoint & UK Webmaster World about “Is What I’m doing Illegal or Unethical?” when it comes to SEO. I think I should explain what each one is.
Illegal is when you break the law. This is when what you are doing goes against the [...]

I love hearing people talk about SEO, it’s one of those things that’s still considered to be a holy grail - that can (and does) make a lot of people a lot of money, so it’s no surprise that a lot of people are in the market.
However, as a group of people that have being [...]