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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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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Today Google announced, curiously form their Twitter page, that Facebook updates would now appear within their search engine results. How this will quite take shape I don’t think anyone is quite yet sure but it’s worth looking out for them over the next few weeks whenever your using Google. One thing is for sure, Google’s [...]

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Very early this morning (if you’re in the UK), Google launched Google Buzz headfirst into the social media market. Google Buzz is primarily designed to work alongside Gmail  but does allow the integration of  various social media platforms including Twitter. Three interesting things I’ve learnt about Buzz so far: 1. Google claims that posts made [...]

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So, a new year -  a new decade even – jumps amongst us and I’m sat wondering what would make a good first post on my new blog? Like everyone, I seem to ponder and contemplate often at the turn of the year and I do wonder what this year will bring  to the online [...]

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