The search for high-quality links is a practice that any SEO project should spend a good amount of time on. Good links are the cornerstone of successful SEO and play a large role in how well your pages rank. However, what exactly is a good-quality link? Contrary to what you may have heard, there is [...]

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Google likes social media. And if Google likes something, it’s generally a good idea for SEOs to like it too. From my experiences, building links through social media channels is now becoming increasingly important for ranking pages and driving more traffic. I believe that the true benefit of building lots of links from social media [...]

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It’s that time of year again, and as 2010 draws to a close I thought I’d take the opportunity to share with you my thoughts on the world of SEO in 2011. Following are the SEO practices which I think will remain important in 2011, as well as the factors that I think will become [...]

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Getting a number-one position on Google for your main keyword is the holy grail of SEO – unless that is you’re ranking in Google America and you’re targeting the UK market (or vice versa). Making sure that your website ranks in the right country is crucial to how much targeted traffic it will receive. But [...]

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It’s been a little while since I’ve written and I apologise for the delay in posting. It’s been hectic, (fun hectic), since returning to the UK. A few people have been asking me to write a little more about blog carnivals – which you may recall I’ve previously mentioned as a great way of building [...]

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Today were going to look at how to take advantage of regional differences in Google results to find great links for your website. If you’ve ever browsed for your target keywords on google.com and then google.co.uk, you will no doubt have noticed the different results that Google delivers. These differences are of course for very [...]

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Were here! It was a long journey, I’m only three hours into my ‘beginners’ Spanish course and I still haven’t mastered the art of crossing the road BUT it feels so good to here be in Buenos Aires. This city has the grandeur of Paris or Rome in places and everyday we find out something [...]

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If you read through last week’s post about ‘being social‘, particularly the section about ping.fm, you may have gathered that good work upfront can pay long term dividends for SEO. This especially true if you have more than one website to promote, or if you have ambitions to rank a number of urls on page [...]

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If you have kindly read a handful of my blogposts to date (thankyou if you have!), you might be coming to the conclusion that my SEO techniques centre around not only creating good links to your main website, but also finding ways to boost the power of those very links too. If you also happened [...]

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Hello from sunny Cornwall! If you followed last week’s post, you should know all about RSS feeds and how to both create and promote them. If you find RSS promotion works particularly well, here’s a quick trick on how to create more RSS feeds to promote and create more links from. How To Blend Two [...]

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