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Some Quick Tips For Removing Links 18 Jan 2013 | 12:05 am
If someone told me 6 years ago when I started out in SEO that by 2013 I’d be doing a project to remove all the directory links I was building at the time, I’d tell them to shove their career when the ...
Raven Tools Remove Rank Tracking 8 Dec 2012 | 08:50 pm
I started typing this as a comment on this post but the comments there are getting a bit overwhelming so I’ve moved it to my blog so I can have a proper rant, and also direct my clients to this page. ...
Google Start Showing Points of Interest Visually in Web Search 27 Sep 2012 | 08:22 pm
Not sure if this is new or not but its certainly the first time I’ve seen it. Google seem to be testing displaying ‘points of interest’ in an interesting way visually on the top of some search results...
A New Way to Fake PageRank? 17 Aug 2012 | 03:52 pm
Lately I’ve noticed a few sites coming up for sale and selling link with ridiculously high Google PageRank. Most recently this PR10 on Flippa (copy of that page here for when the auction ends). Now ob...
The blog network debacle and SEO misinformation 28 Mar 2012 | 09:45 am
A few people have been asking me about this so I though I’d throw my opinions into the ring for what they’re worth (i.e not much) I’m sure by now you know about all the ho-rah around build my rank et...
How to de-localise new google results 2 Mar 2012 | 03:05 am
Just a quick post on the latest algo updates you’ve probably noticed/ read about by now. To cut a long story short Google has started serving up localised results in normal SERPs (not places) on gene...
Are Your Rich Snippets Breaking the Law? 15 Feb 2012 | 12:30 am
You’ve probably noticed by now that its become very easy to get star rating ‘rich snippets’ to show up in organic search results. It used to be a select few sites which would get approved for rich sni...
How to get 9000 free links on autopilot 16 Nov 2011 | 12:04 am
How’s that for a spamtastic title! This is going to be a fun post about how I accidental built 9000 links from over 400 domains with virtually no work. You probably won’t want to do it for yourself bu...
Optimising Internal Link Anchor Text with WordPress Menus 2 Nov 2011 | 08:30 pm
One of the points I suggested in my post on SEO theories which I can’t prove was that “Internal links are more important than external links” In this post I’m going to show you how to get much more ...
My BrightonSEO presentation on Building Private Blog Networks 13 Sep 2011 | 11:34 pm
I spoke at the BrightonSEO conference last Friday on the slightly controversial topic of building blog networks for your link building campaigns. I have included my slides from the presentation below:...
