Bruce Clay SEO Factors and Trends Report Breakdown
Just downloaded the new Bruce Clay SEO Factors and Trends Report which acts as a great reminder of SEO issues we all faced throughout 2009. All in all it’s pretty well written and contains lots of hints at things that can/have been done in SEO over the last 12 months. Heres a few of the [...]
Mark Rushworth.com Featured in a Top 50 Blog Articles of 2009
topseo.org has featured my article on how to get more than 1000 baclkinks listed from Yahoo Site Explorer (I’ll post a link once I’ve reinstated the page). The post was placed at position #47 and is amongst such names as Dave Naylor, Marketing Pilgrim, CopyBlogger, SEOMoz, Matt Cutts, Shoe Money, Grey Wolf and Bruce Clay… [...]
The Great Walking Boots Bribe and How I Got a Free Pair Worth £90
It’s really great when people you don’t know can see the value in what you’re doing and today was such a day. I received a nice little email about my Glastonbury post where I mentioned buying walking boots in place of wellies. It said something along the lines of… “shame you’ve already bought some walking [...]
Reciprocal Directory Owners and Unfair Link Exchanges
I’ve been getting back to my roots lately with some directory submission and have noticed how unfair many websites submission criteria are. Several directories require a reciprocal link in order to be listed (not that I’d condone exchanging links with a directory) whats worse is that in exchange for a link burried deep on a [...]
Link Building Tip – People Who Pinch Your Images
As part of my general link building activities I’ve been cataloging sites that have stolen our photography for their own use. More often than not these are blog owners or worse magazine writers who need something quick to drop into a post to support the content. As ive developed a sizeable list ive decided to [...]
Rage Against the Machine Vs Xfactors Joe McElderry for Christmas Number 1
Well, I have to say that the Xfactor final was a foregone conclusion and I for one think that Olly Murs had a close escape from the curse that is Xfactor rubbish singles/albums, you know that Joe McElderry is going to tank after the first album… but good luck to the guy. If like me [...]
Combat Paid Links the Easy Way
Further to my post about being careful when thanking bloggers about giving you an unsolicited link from their blogs I’ve thought of rather a devious little technique that you can use to help nullify any paid links your competitors are using to rank. Simply comment on any paid links using the target href as your [...]
SEO for Google Caffeine Part 1
Before I start I’d like to clarify a few things. IMHO PageRank is completely dead and useless. For Gods sake, please stop using it as a metric. There’s far better, independent metrics you can use such as MozRank which logarithmically make more sense and if you have to buy links, use common sense and pick [...]
SEO Bookmarks for 30.11.09
I’m kind of all over the place today as I’ve been given the day off for Xmas shopping by my great boss (it would never have happened in some of my past workplaces so big thanks to Steve) and as usual I’ve built up a nice set of tabs all containing things I really need [...]