by Stephen on September 29, 2009
People who have just a smidgen of knowledge of SEO (search engine optimisation) have long debunked the assumption that the META KEYWORDS tag offers any value to search engine rankings. In the olden days this wasn’t the case, but now Google has officially announced that it no longer uses the content of the keywords tag [...]
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by Stephen on September 14, 2009
For quite some time I held the viewpoint that the length of time for which a domain name is registered does help a website or blog achieve higher search rankings, particulalry on Google. In my mind I have often tried to trace the origins of this thought and, after performing a few searches, I [...]
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domain registration,
Search,
SEO
by Stephen on February 25, 2009
Matt Cutts is a big wig at Google. He is head of the Google Webspam team and acts as the visual interface between the big G and bloggers, webmasters, SEO’ers, marketers and everyone else who is interested in benefiting from being online.
Matt’s blog is essential reading for a lot of people as he mostly writes [...]
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Google,
hackers,
Matt Cutts,
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spam,
talk,
Video
by Stephen on December 16, 2008
Photo – Tawheed Manzoor
You might think all of the best domain names have been snapped up by now. You are probably right, after all, people have been buying domain names for years. When domain names were first made available there was a rush by investors (aka domainers) to snap them up as they knew how [...]
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Domain Names,
domains,
perception,
research,
Search Engine Optimisation,
search rankings,
SEO,
SERPS,
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by Stephen on October 3, 2008
If you are the owner or webmaster of a successful website there is no doubt that you will have been approached at some time by somebody wishing to buy “advertising space” on your website.
Danny Sullivan has written an excellent article at Search Engine Land entitled Conversation With An Idiot Link Broker in which he describes [...]
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link brokering,
link buying,
Links,
Search Engine Optimisation,
SEO,
stupid
by Stephen on September 24, 2008
Most SEO companies out there have been involved in submitting and waiting on at least one reinclusion or reconsideration request with Google. Not to say that you had a client that was penalized by Google but maybe you had a new client that switch to you after being penalized and you had to ‘clean up the mess.’ How long did it take you to get reincluded after submitting the reconsideration request with Google? If you submitted several of these requests and each took a different amount of time, do let us know. Here is a poll that I hope fills most possible answers. Please round to the nearest number and select all that apply: Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld . …
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by Stephen on July 12, 2008
The robots.txt file is a very powerful tool to use for the purpose of SEO, but if used incorrectly it can lead to your website being completely ignored by search engines!
The robots.txt file tells a search engine spider which directories on a server it can crawl. These directories will then be added to the search [...]
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indexing,
robots.txt,
Search,
SEO,
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