Posts Tagged ‘seo’

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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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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]