MattSawyer

Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2008 - 6:29 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.datadial.net)
Category: SEO
Having just got back from SMX London I thought that rather than be one of 50 recap blog posts I thought I would try to do something a little different. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 2, 2008 - 12:15 pm
Posted By: MattSawyer 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.datadial.net)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Before you can make decisions such as keyword targeting and page optimisation, it is first important to understand the search buying cycle and how this can impact on your keyword queries and landing pages. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 30, 2008 - 1:00 pm
Posted By: MattSawyer 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Google
Google have obviously been clamping down on paid links during the last year, but it now looks like they may also be taking a stance against blog reviews made in exchange for free gifts! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 20, 2008 - 11:55 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
As a seo I wanted to know - how many words or characters does Google count in a link? What’s best practice when creating links - internal, or external? What is the optimal length of a HTML link? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 24, 2008 - 9:14 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e-consultancy.com)
Category: SEO
Last week E-consultancy's Graham Charlton took a look at Ten things Asda can do better online . What I found surprising is that neither Asda, or any of the other leading UK supermarkets, rank above #9 in Google UK for the term 'supermarket'. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 5:15 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.datadial.net)
Category: SEO
Being based in the UK I find that SEOs on this side of the pond have to get very familiar with website geo-location factors. It’s an unfortunate quirk of search engines that one of the main criteria that search engines use to determine a websites lo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 3, 2007 - 2:14 pm
Posted By: MattSawyer 368 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.clicks.ws)
Category: Google AdSense
I’m wondering if there’s any connection between this and a thread on Digitalpoint that claims their ads are being blocked. There’s some confusion that the missing ads may be related to some database errors that the site was having last week, though read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2007 - 10:05 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 381 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.clicks.ws)
Category: Link Building
Following on from my previous post which went into detail about Googles crackdown on paid links, it makes sense to take a step back from all of the hype and see how things have actually changed. There are now some previously popular sources of paid read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2007 - 8:36 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 381 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Blogging
Gaining exposure for your blog is critical to building a following, readership, and revenue. Besides the basic SEO steps of adding compelling and keyword friendly titles, URL structure and descriptions (along with the basic Wordpress SEO plugins) ba read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2007 - 2:03 pm
Posted By: MattSawyer 382 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk)
Category: Google
I thought it was all over that the message had finally gotten through to even the most stubborn digital point fan boy. PageRank does not equate to search engine rankings, yet some still remain unconvinced what’s scary is some of the FUD coming out t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2007 - 6:03 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 384 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com)
Category: Google Searching
Having a quick glance at the image and headline I assumed the story was about SEO Inc, but clicking on the headline shows that the story CEO Puts fresh face on SEO article, from the Seattle Times, which is infact about SEOmoz instead! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 16, 2007 - 5:43 pm
Posted By: MattSawyer 385 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.clicks.ws)
Category: Google
For those of you that are unaware of Google’s recent crackdown on sites trading links, the whole saga has now been going on for some time and if you’ve missed things you’ve missing out on a lot of fun. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 15, 2007 - 8:51 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 386 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Social Media
Social bookmarking allows web users to search, share, organize, and store the bookmarks of different web pages. This can be done publicly or privately (in private groups), or a combination of the two. People who are allowed to view the bookmarks can read more »
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