5 January 2011
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Repost: My top 10 SEO Predictions for 2011

Ive been ‘encouraged’ to contribute more to the BC blog so today I added in a post outlining my top 10 SEO productions for 2011 based on what was starting to happen towards the end of 2010. check it and let me know your thoughts (plz retweet) Thanks Mark


25 November 2010
Category:
Google
SEO Advice
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Google Now Weighting Internal Pages

Nows the time to get your internal anchor text structure honed to a fine T as Google have switched their algo from showing home pages that have been hammered with anchor text, to internal pages from said domains that relate fully to the target term. For example – The home page for Markrushworth.com ranked #2 [...]


12 November 2010
Category:
Google
SEO News
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Alexa Confirms Google October 2010 Update Schinannigans

Ryan has forwarded to me a great post from Alexa that gives some further insight int the Google updstes that happened throughout October 2010. According to their information the issues following Octiver 17th were an indexing glitch that saw many sites internal pages dissapear from the results. These pages have slowly returned over time tho’ [...]


28 October 2010
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Google Local Listings Integrating with Organic & Going PPC

Ryan, one of our rockstar SEO consultants has just spent all morning writing a new BC blog post about the imminent changes in how Google displays local listings. In particular, how they’re fully integrating local listings into the organic results (no longer as a separte panel) and introducing a PPC model for the top positions. [...]


8 October 2010
Category:
Google
SEO Tools
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&pws=0 Firefox Plugin

If you’re like me and are forever apending your searches with the query string addition &pws=0 to ensure that you’re seeing googles unfiltered, unpersonalised results then you probably need this plugin. Close Firefox, unzip it and run the EXE. Now and forever more searches will be appended with &pws=0 automatically. JOY! Credit Michael Duz


8 October 2010
Category:
Google
SEO Tools
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Google Keyword Tool Abandons Long Tail

Marty has confirmed that the ubiquatous Google Adwords Keyword Tool now no longer shows long and medium tail terms. This is pretty damaging for SEO’s who often rely on this tool for keyword research and as a way of gaining insight into a market. Luckily Marty has put together a list of alternative tools for [...]


7 October 2010
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Google SERPS Update 7 October 2010

Anyone else noticed todays SERPS change which may be limited to the UK results (unconfirmed) it seems that deep-linking has been devalued, and anchor text too. The trend seems to be more brand focused tho im having difficulty in seeing how some brand sites are ranking for some unbranded terms when the main site doesnt [...]


30 September 2010
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Updated Google SEO Starter Guide

Back in the day, I reviewed the Google SEO Starter Guide outlining what was good, bad and missinformative about it. Well, if you found that usefull, good news! It’s been updated and now has pretty illustrations and a handy glossary of terms. Read it here.


23 September 2010
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Google Adwords Keyword Tool Updated – SKTool To Be Discontinued

Behold. The new Google Adwords keyword tool. It looks a lot like the SKTool (which is being discontinued) and now includes Traffic Estimator (top left) which can be used to estimate guest what… that’s right traffic and PPC/CPA amounts. I still prefer the old Google keywords tool as i like the Synonyms which works great [...]


15 September 2010
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New Google Patent Reopens C Class SEO Hosting Debate

Just read a post about a new Google patent that outlines Google’s efforts to determine link sources from affiliated content and decrease the weight/value of non-independent links. This reminded me of a recent conversation I had with a hosting company who spent ages trying to convince me that my request for individual c class IP [...]