Social is changing SEO

Social Likes help your Google Rankings Social media is changing the way our websites achieve rankings on the search engines. And it makes total sense. In the “old days” one of the game makers were incoming links to our website. All these links would count as a vote that our content was considered good enough, [...]

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value of directories

A client asked me the other day if submitting your website to 1000-s of directories was still useful? For those that do not know what this questions means; one way to get links to your site is to submit your site to as many directories as you can find. In the offline world you might [...]

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how to make a shortlist

You can easily end up with hundreds even thousands of keywords when you do keyword research for your website. How do you decide which ones to use for your site? I will not go into the technical aspects of keyword research too much. I am going to try and explain the principles to you in [...]

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SEO and inbound links

You may have heard that the trick of SEO is getting as many links as you can to your website. But is that true? What else should you know about links?

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RSS feeds & SEO

Will using an RSS feed on your site boost your rankings? or not? Find out more.

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search engine saturation

A page that has not been indexed by a search engine will be pretty hard to find. Search Engine Saturation is a gauge of how many of your pages have been indexed, and therefore is an indication of how well your SEM efforts are going.

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How fast is your website?

Your website speed and your Google rankings Google announced on 9th April 2010, that it has started taking site speed into account for your search ranking results. For the moment, the site speed signal is only rolled out across google.com site visitors, but soon this will also affect your country code. Start preparing yourself now [...]

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website preparation staff list

Several people need to come together to build a website. It is not a good idea to ring the SEO after the site is finished and ask to put the finishing touch on by achieving a number 1 ranking on Google.... the groundwork needs to be in place and the Marketer, SEO, Designer, Developer and Security person all need to come together to create a successful website.

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SEO and business template websites

Many large companies, franchisees and multi-level marketers choose to set up their websites using standard business templates. But often soon they will begin to wonder why the sales are not flooding in, and why people do not seem to be able to find their sites.

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NoFollow tags in links

What is the nofollow tag? How does it affect your own site and what would be the reason for you to use this tag for some of your own links? Read on..

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