5 January 2010
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SEO Tips – In the New year Do Some Housekeeping

Well it’s officially the start of 2010 and despite not being able to work in the office due to frozen pipes I’m working from my home office and loving the snow (but not this aweful flu I contracted over the new year). So what better time to do some general housekeeping for your websites to [...]


22 December 2009
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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 [...]


20 December 2009
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I’m in a Top 50 SEO Posts 2009

Some dude named Evan Carmichael has featured my post on squeezing more than 1000 back links out of Yahoo Site Explorer as one of his top 50 SEO posts of 2009. /evancarmichael.com/Tools/Top-50-SEO-Posts-Of-The-Year-2009.htm Thanks Evan – It’s nice to get some fame and glory at last lol.


18 December 2009
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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 [...]


16 December 2009
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Start Your January Sales SEO Now

At Click 4 Beds and Distinctive Chesterfields we’re rapidly approching the cut off time for deliveries to arrive in time for Christmas its time to think about the next big sales period, the January Sales. Even though most retailers have pre-christmas sales, January’s offerings are still a big draw for many customers seeking to fill [...]


14 December 2009
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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 [...]


4 December 2009
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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 [...]


2 December 2009
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Use the New Google Asynchronous Analytics Code for Caffeine

Bit of a precursor to my big Google Caffeine post but yesterday Google announced a new version of their analytics tracking code that provides Asynchronous tracking and stats. Now getting stats quicker is great and all that and I’m sure that its work the hassle of changing your footer include but there is a greater [...]


30 November 2009
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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 [...]


29 November 2009
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Ikeas Amazing Facebook Marketing

I desparately try not to re-post things here but the way Ikea used Facebook to market the opening of a new store using stock features we use every day is simply inspiring. Anyway, enough from me, the video explains it all. Source: freshpeel.com