Cleaned List of UK Citation Sources with PR and Alexa Rank
A month or so ago I decided to compile a list of all of the local citation sources documented online that I could find. This covered threads on digitalpoint, webmaster world, blackhatworld, blogs and pretty mush anything else i could find. About a week ago i started manually submitting to each of these sources and [...]
A Revelation from Matt Cutts on Thin Content
I’ve just read a transcription of an interview between Matt Cutts and Eric Enge which blows a hole in the thin content argument. It turns out that all you need to make a page different is no duplicate content and instead of 300-400 words of unique text, you simply need one or two sentences! Sounds [...]
List of 123 Great Places To Submit Your Infographic
It seems like Infographic marketing isn’t going away any time soon despite many of the regular haunts being hit by Panda and Penguin updates. If you’re into Infographic marketing as a quick and dirty way of getting links for your clients then the following list of sites where you can submit and publicise your infographics [...]
Get Monthly Search Volume for Google Shopping
I’m working through a mixed marketing proposal that covers e-commerce web design, organic SEO, PPC, display, networks (Amazon/eBay), PR, Social Media and affiliate for a new client who sells electric bikes and I’ve stumbled upon a great and easy way of getting some search volume data for the Google Shopping service. Simply use the Google [...]
SEO Tip – Identify New Data Between 2 Excel Sheets
Paul our new Excel guru has shown me a nifty little trick that im sure you’ll find interesting. I was discussing how each month Open Site Explorer outputted new data and it was hard to integrate this into an existing (previous months) worksheet without potentially overwriting the work already done. He rolled his eyes and [...]
Matt Cutts Announces New Google Update that Tackles Web Spam
Today the mighty Matt Cutts announced the latest in their series of updates designed to kill the impact of so called web spam. The full article can be read here. Now I fully understand keyword stuffing and acknowledge that it’s a technique from the dark past of SEO however the second example they show just [...]
How To Add Multiple Google Places Admin Accounts
I’ve just had an interesting time trying to figure out how you can add multiple admin accounts to a Google Places listing. Well, the solution is simpler than you think. It works exactly the same as Google+ and in fact, uses the Google+ Managers function! To add a second (third or fourth etc) manager for [...]
Stop SOPA – MR.SEO Going Dark
So i’ve decided to send the site dark in protest over SOPA as if this passes in the USA it’s only a matter of time before the UK Government is all over it. If you’d like to black out your blog in protest then (after having done a bit of research) the best plugin is http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sopa-blackout/ [...]
Panda Update 19th December 2011
Although Matt Cutts previously stated that there would be no ‘major’ updates to the Panda algorithm change throughout December, this didn’t stop them slipping in a minor update that occurred on the 19th Dec. Reports that this ‘minor’ update has already affected some big sites such as JC Penny, Overstock.com and a host of other big name websites. So [...]
Bookmark of the day
Heres an awesome post on how you can create masses of ‘unique’ meta descriptions, page titles, Google product/base feed info and product descriptions by programatically creating a matrix of content… AWESOME! http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/how-i-wrote-500000-unique-googlebase-descriptions-in-2-hours/2011/08/31/