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SEO Quantity or SEO Quality in 2010?

With new tools springing up every day to allow web site owners to spam the hell out of the Internet with article spinning, splogs and a never ending list of ways to trick Google into thinking your site is important which route are you planning to take in 2010? Reading through online marketing blogs today [...]

Watch Those Personalised Search Results

Google recently posted the video above to advise people about personalised search results. They are now serving personalised search results whether you are logged on or not, unless you TURN IT OFF. Overall this has to be a good thing, tailored results should mean more relevant results and a better search experience. However, if you [...]

5 Ways to Avoid Web Re-Development Hell

It’s a fact that from time to time companies need to re develop their website. Perhaps they have out grown their current web provider, perhaps the business has changed and needs something better, or perhaps they just decide they need a change for change’s sake. The one thing you want to avoid when re developing [...]

Google Just Changed, Is This Caffeine?

It’s 23:00 on Saturday 14th November and I just noticed Google.co.uk changed. It’s removed the search button and it’s using a moo tools type effect to fade in the menu items when you mouse over the page. Is this a blast of Caffiene? TTFN d .gplus #___plusone_0, .gplus #___plusone_1,.gplus #___plusone_2, .gplus #___plusone_3, .gplus #___plusone_4, .gplus [...]

Link SPAM, Should You Just Join In?

A subject that keeps coming up when we carry out FREE SEO Reviews or SEO Coffee Break sessions is that of buying links. Google’s pretty clear on this and the bottom line is, if you buy links to boost your site’s rankings you run the risk of getting banned from the index. But is this [...]

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