September 6th, 2010 — Link Building, SEO Techniques
I know a guy who repeatedly calls me with ‘the latest and greatest’ in dropped domains and its something that i think coupld really benefit any SEO in their day to day link development work.
Basically the process would follow:
- Source dropped domains from sites like unwanted-domain-names.co.uk (anyone know any more)
- Check back link numbers for accuracy
- Check anchor text for backlinks using opensiteexplorer.org to ensure relevancy
- Check deep links for backlinks and try and match with pages on target website
- Buy domain
- Register with Google Webmaster Tools
- Create .htaccess file with 301 redirects for all old content url’s to new url’s
This could be a great way of building some nice authorative backlinks pretty cheapley and if on-topic would bring new custom.
Id be tempted not to buy a domain if the anchor texts were off topic as this could lead to a world of hurt.
Anyone got any experiences of this they’d care to share?
September 3rd, 2010 — Blogging, SEO Advice
How many SEO copywriters does it take to change a lightbulb, light bulb, bulb, lamp, light, eco-bulb, bulbs, fluorescent tubes?
lolz
September 3rd, 2010 — Blogging, SEO Tools
Some of my {foo}.wordpress.com sites have been deleted for apparently being ‘advertising’ – an issue im not happy about as i purposefully made them not commercial and topical with links out to independent non-affiliated sites and resources and despite my appeals to this effect I’ve been told they wont be reactivated.
So from today onwards I’m moving everything to Blogspot.com which is a bit more friendly (and as a Google product has inherited Domain Authority). This task has been made much easier through the use of this online tool which takes an exported site from wordpress.com and converts it for use on blogspot.
Happy Days!
September 2nd, 2010 — Google, SEO Techniques
Is it just me or does Google Webmaster Tools give you the ability to target www. domains at one country and non www at a different country whilst keeping the target URL the same?
Try it for yourself, log into Google Webmaster Tools and set up (and validate) two entries www.domain.com and domain.com go to each sites settings and there you can see you can set the country of focus.
Best use of canonical domains ever!
August 30th, 2010 — My Life, Work Related
Friday morning I woke to find that my car had been broken into and amongst some other things such as my sat-nav, cagoule and ‘Glastonbury’ sunglasses the dirty Ba#@rds stole my laptop.
If anyone in Halifax (UK) gets approached to buy a red Samsung laptop like the one shown below please let me know (of if you see it in cash-converters or some place like that)
Not had a good weekend.
p.s. if its still in a black laptop bag check the pocket for a brown stripy woolly hat.
August 26th, 2010 — My Life
Today I will mostly be being ill. I think my immune system has finally given up and I’ve got a cold which I originally thought was hey fever 
Because I am a man I will be making a big deal out of this (cue dying swan routine).
I’m still in work tho’ so will make it my mission to infect as many people as possible… just call me typhoid marky.
August 25th, 2010 — Web Design, Web Development
Just discovered this Open SOurce ASP.NET ecommerce system called NopCommerce. This is pretty revolutionary for me as in the past, I have been lead to believe that .NET systems are closed source, make use of COM objects and closed library files which resulted in almost every piece of .NET software being a paid application.
The system looks pretty well formed and feature packed and it includes all of the standard functionality you would expect from an ASP.NET Ecommerce system in particular:
- ‘Anonymous’ Checkout
- 1 page checkout
- Gift Cards
- Product Configuration/Builder
- Real-time exchange rates
- Reward points
- Discount codes and coupons
…and lots more.
Check it out.
August 24th, 2010 — Link Building, SEO Tools, Software
Today I am trialing a piece of software that provides semi automated submission to online directories, social bookmarking websites and article sites. What’s more this free directory submission is hosted right here on markrushworth.com for you all to try out.
Basically you register with the system (i give you 1000 free credits – 1 credit per domain which i think is more than ample) and you fill in some basic details of your target site. The free directory submission tool then visits each directory in turn and all you need to do is fill in the captcha and appropriate category for submission.
The reason for my trialling this is my annoyance with the paid services out there where there is no control over the quality of directories in a list. Also Google seem to be using ‘low level’ link building techniques like directory submission with great effect (even Rand thinks so).
Give it a try and let me know your thoughts.
August 24th, 2010 — Google
Some of the guys at Blueclaw have Google branded mice and gizmos and I asked if they picked them up at a trade show. What I didnt know was that theyve bought them from the official online Google shop which has loads of branded goodies at low prices(no phones tho?).
By all accounts you even have to buy stuff like this if you work inside of Google like Elanie, one of our PPC consultants did… the cheapskates.
So if you’re into Google branded goodies check the store out.
August 23rd, 2010 — SEO Tools, Work Related
You can all thank Blueclaw’s Senior SEO consultant, Monica for this.
The blueclaw team hold weekly internal presentations where a member of the team stands up and talks at length and in great detail about a specific topic. Todays was a talk on Keyword Research by Monica which covered a lot of information about the tools, types and formats of keywords in best-practice usage.
As part of this presentation a slide was put up that showed a keyword research tool that I hadn’t seen before and I thought that in addition to the Google Link Wheel, provides a more lateral insight into the terms Google ring fences around a core topic. This tool is the Think Pragmatic Keyword Suggestion Tool.
It basically allows you to capture the live suggestions that Google displays as a search term is entered into the standard search box.
Nice!
