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Amused head shaking at big brand consultancies who claim they know anything about SEO. I bet these guys charge five figures for an initial consult, yet don't know enough to not use a spider-invisible page as their entire site. read more »
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I [David Snyder] think all SEOs believe it is important to control how the search bots view their site.

All quality SEOs would agree this control begins with a quality site and information architecture.

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Peter Da Vanzo writes, "Link building is hard work. Have you ever tried to get people to link to your pure commerce/commercial brochure-web site? You know how tough it is out there. The link economy has become so established, we've even got strategi read more »
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The mainstream media are paying more attention to outbound linking, starting with a 4 week trial of "linking out to external sources from within the body text of its news articles" on the BBC. read more »
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Find out who the top 100 A-List bloggers use to host their websites. read more »
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Ann Smarty looks at the world's hottest web and search trends. read more »
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British tennis player Andy Murray is using Twitter. Kevin at SEOptimise reckons it might help improve his reputation. But only if anyone is watching.. read more »
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These 30 "intermediate SEO" tweaks take one minute each and can increase profits significantly. They're "quick and clean" on top of that, they're no "SEO tricks". read more »
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The dragons were keen to invest in an online diamond website's potential due to its high search rankings in Google. read more »
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Sadly even in 2008 most SEOs fail at writing, even SEO copywriting. Reading most SEO sites is still awful although the dark ages of too obvious keyword stuffing seem to be gone. So as even I, as a SEO, barely can stand it, imagine your average John read more »
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Despite reading tons of blogs each day it’s actually quite rare that I bookmark posts in FireFox. But by being selective, I’ve managed to build up a nice collection of quality articles and blog posts over the last three or four years about pretty mu read more »
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A look at the localisation SEO strategies applied by six top multinational brands. read more »
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Kevin Gibbons gives us a list of very well-known companies that were too cheap to pay the £2.50 to protect their brand. read more »
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A look at the 10 most common fatal localisation mistakes English language sites face when entering other markets. read more »
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| SEOptimise | Despite consumers barely noticing the aesthetic changes and quality updates, search engines must provide their users with useful results or they will lose them to the competition.

This means their search criteria are constantly upg read more »
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Blogging is a great form of advertising. Majority of bloggers use their blogs to promote things that they want to get exposed to thousands of people.

There is a new trend starting to happen that now involves using a blog to advertise your career read more »
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This morning I was handing off a project to a developer and found myself ranting about the common mistakes developers make when coding HTML. These boneheaded mistakes can cause search engines to choke when it comes to indexing your websites. And its read more »
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Hate negative results on SERPs? This piece is loaded with online reputation management (ORM) insights for your client or business website. It covers vital steps, expectations, useful tips and sites to target. read more »
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Sometimes one of the hardest things to do for any website is build links to deep content.These are the links that generally will help the site perform best overall in the search engines. This is because while it may take hundreds or thousands of lin read more »
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Tim Nash provides a great overview of link worth in this must read post.

From the Page: A link is a link is link, a common mantra but not all links are equal, indeed inbound links from the same page are not always equal. Most Search Engines reco read more »
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Tad Chef "Do you still build links? Well, I don’t do link building anymore, I get links. People link to my SEO blog voluntarily, not just any people but respected bloggers and search marketing mavens.

At the same time I notice that people in the read more »
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"Nielsen Online has released data showing that Wikipedia's 8,000% growth in the past 5 years is attributed to search. Really? Is that what happens when Google ranks all of your pages as #1? I had no idea." read more »
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Now comes the time for those to clean up the mess who are responsible for it in the first place. Make sure to concentrate on the fun stuff in SEO. read more »
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Everyone hates popup window ads and assumes these are bad practice for SEO, but are there any facts which show they have a negative effect towards search rankings? read more »
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Rand takes a look at some of the blackhat spam websites performing well in Google. read more »
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