Local SEO: 20 Authority Citation Places

by Gareth on June 18, 2010

This is post looks at UK specific citation places, but many will have sections for other countries.  For pure US citation sources try here. [click to continue…]

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Top SMX London Tips 2010

by Gareth on May 17, 2010

Being a freelance seo, I was unable to attend SMX London – £1295 for 2 days could not be justified…besides I have Twitter!!  Here is a round up of the top SMX tips and news which came live from Twitter using the #smx tag. Thanks to all the live bloggers for sharing.  Also included are some slides shared by the presenters. [click to continue…]

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Linkbait: The Most Linked to Articles

April 21, 2010

After researching Linkbait, I wanted to share some of my findings.  I wanted to discover which posts/articles on some of my favourite blogs attracted the most raw links.  Some blog posts look like great linkbait pieces, but have failed to attract good link quantities.  Pure linkbait has to attract links or it has failed it’s

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SEO Doctor 1.0 Firefox Extension

March 27, 2010

This week the SEO Doctor Firefox Extension was released.  The tool gives you a mini SEO audit looking at H1 tags through to Robots.txt info.  The tool sits in your status bar below and gives you an SEO Score – this site scored 100% which was nice

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Optimising Images, Podcasts and Video

February 14, 2010

(Guest Post from Ben Rozema at Bestrank.com) To tap into your maximum search ranking potential it is important to not only focus on optimizing your textual content, but to also optimize other forms of media such as any images, podcasts, or videos.

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ehow- Stop Polluting Googles Index With Shite

February 12, 2010

After playing with ehow for a couple of weeks, I have found there is ZERO quality control while Google just loves the content, it’s a complete joke.   As an SEO, we love to find strong trusted domains which we use to rank content and get links from, but there is a trade off.

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On Site Search Analytics

February 5, 2010

After just doing some SEO consulting and setting up analytics for site search on 2 websites, I thought I would do quick guide as Google’s own document is very unclear

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Best Firefox Social Media Extensions

January 21, 2010

This is a guest post from Ben Rozema of Best Rank, a San Diego SEO Company.  Go and check out their blog. Any social media user, no matter what their level, can use add-ons and plug-ins to save time and create more opportunity. Some of the following listings work for specific sites, while others have

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LinkedIn: Optimizing Your Profile

January 19, 2010

As an SEO Consultant, I always like to play with my titles and snippets displayed in Google’s search engine results pages (SERPs).  You can always have some fun..

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PageRank Update December 2009

December 31, 2009

Today Google updated it’s toolbar Pagerank  – not to be confused with the real Pagerank that Google keeps private. Looking at my sites and my client’s sites, the update appears totally random.  It’s very difficult to get any meaning from this data as there is a delay factor. This site went from PR3 to PR5

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