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So, in little over a week, most of the Christian world (and hangers on) will be celebrating Christmas 2008. Also, because of it’s the credit crunch, businesses are counting on the strong sales of Christmas to tide them through.
As an SEO’er, have you approached your client about SEO’ing for Christmas 2008?
If you [...]
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Christmas is Coming - How To Carry Out a Christmas SEO campaign
My Authority List on Link Building
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Ah yes, there are two things to do when it comes to SEO - optimising pages & link building. Realistically, you should spend about 40% of your time on optimising pages, and 40% of your time on link building. The other 20% should be split with sorting out relevant areas such as [...]
Playing With Things
Being busy, I haven’t really got anything thought provoking or intelligent to say today (sorry!) but I will talk about a little widget I’ve stuck on this blog.
Widgets are like Garden Gnomes. One or two on a blog looks okay, but any more than that and it looks a bit tacky. Also, with widgets, they [...]
SEO Companies - What To Look For (And Avoid!)
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 [...]
Thoughts on Baiting For Blogs
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.
1. [...]
Get Huge Blogging Traffic By Predicting The News
An interesting post on sitepoint caught my eye - the post was about a member there, who’s blogged about how a post written about the Johnathan Ross/Russell Brand Non News Fiasco was receiving huge traffic because the post is located on page 1 of google, surrounded by the likes of Youtube & Newspaper Stories.
News based [...]
Using Webmaster Tools To Find Free Links
Recently, Matt Cutts on his blog suggested a way of getting free links on your site quickly and easily, using Google’s Webmaster Tools.
Google’s Webmaster Tools contains links to pages that people have pointed to, but they’re not on the server (404 errors). So say if somebody created a page to deadsite.co.uk/itisnothere.htm, and you either removed [...]