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Websites have come a long way, not just in terms of design and technology, but also in their intention. A few short years ago your website was just an extension of your offline promotional material. You had a bit of an introduction, a few pages abou read more »
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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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Corporate blogs have become far more commonplace over the past few years as companies begin to realise their importance. read more »
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SEO Workers say in this article that you can boost your rankings using PageRank Sculpting. Before you start building links you can control the flow of PageRank to boost your most important pages and keep them out of the Supplemental Index. With this read more »
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Tim Nash delivers another thought-provoking post on how block segmentation could be used to help analyze a web page.
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Learn how to write search engine friendly content for your human and search engine visitors. Includes tips on local search optimisation, keywords, page titles, title attributes, alt tags, headings and how to make them accessible for your visitors. read more »
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Tim Nash at it again in top form, this time on the subject of search vs. relevancy.

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* Joe Blogs - How do I make my site rank well Mr SEO person
* SEO person - You need lots of highly relevant content and links from pages tha read more »
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Find out how to use the search engine analysis tool at the SEO Workers web site to make your web pages search engine friendly in this tutorial. read more »
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Brendan interviews Tim Nash on social media communities like Digg and Stumbleupon. Also talks about Tim's new membership site: "I’ve been planning on setting up a membership site for a while now aiming it at the intermediate to advanced SEO/SMO user read more »
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You can't control who submits you to what network and provide a specific tracking URL for each. There's a way to use Analytics and onpage stuff to track your social media efforts! read more »
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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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Tim Nash discusses 5 techniques to de-index pages of sites from search engine databases. read more »
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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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Tim Nash gets interviewed. My favorite bit of the interview:

Q: ...if you could get your hands on Google’s algorithm for a day, what would be the top 5 things that you would like to be considered before it determines a pages seeding in the searc read more »
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With Facebook an advertisers wet dream, and with new avenues appearing to advertise your wares, is the walled garden of Facebook falling around us, and while we all cram into this new advertising arena will we still have a captured audience? read more »
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Research is showing that Stumblers often mis-click when clicking away to the next blog. How you might turn this missed click in to a second chance by designing for the opportunity. read more »
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Who is next? Looks like that almost every weblog isn't safe for a Pagerank drop during this update, I mean downgrade... read more »
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Sharing links with Stumbleupon and digg.com is a great feature to recognize new stories on the Internet. But don't share too much and keep your friends! read more »
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Tad asked why his affiliate links have not returned a profit could it be as simple as over saturation in the sombrero market? read more »
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Is there a quick simple way to get links through competitions and still be a genius? read more »
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Tim has a very detailed post about scraping from an unusual question about scraping SU -

From the Site - I’m sure my emailer has a perfect reasonable reason for theorising about wanting to rip the entire Stumbleupon database but I have a feeling read more »
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Some uncommon uses of the nofollow attribute for links you may have overlooked. Why you should consider "nofollowing" these links and the SEO behind the decision to do so. read more »
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In today's online marketplace, simply adding meta-tags and upgrading your website's page titles isn't enough to boost your websites search engine rankings in competitive keyword markets. If you even hope to compete in a market where there are harden read more »
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What are your favorite hack-SEO stories? Bad SEO sellers make me HOMICIDAL. They guarantee number 1 Google rankings, submit your site to 100 search engines, they don't rank for their OWN name, ARGHHH!!! read more »
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Google in all it's infinite wisdom has assessed a keyword penalty against Tim Nash.  Affecting his personal Blog, so that he may no longer rank for his own name.  Doesn't Google have better things to do? read more »
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