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SEO, Search Marketing and The Social Web – Help & Advice

Site Appeal – The Change Will Do You Good

www.net.tutsplus.com have provided an extremely useful and exhaustive list that identifies a variety of factors that are likely to impact positively on the worthiness of your website as an attraction both to search engines and to “human” visitors. It’s worth remembering that popularity in terms of visitor numbers isn’t the be all and end all [...]

Are You Ready For The Big Search Engine Switch Off?

In a bid to improve the Internet all search engines are to be permanently switched off. The decision was announced today by the organisation who control the Internet, the Directorate of Internet Communication and Knowledge Services or DICKS. The decision was taken following reports that servers were filling up with garbage created purely to manipulate [...]

Is Your Website A Drugs Cheat?

What’s your view on Ben Johnson? Was he stupid for taking drugs to enhance his performance, leading to temporary gold medal glory, or was he just stupid for getting caught? What about Marion Jones? She had to forfeit all her medals dating back to 2000 and retired in 2007 having ‘achieved’ virtually nothing, and even [...]

Google #1 100% Guaranteed (Or I’ll Show My Arse In Woolies Window)

They say there’s one born every minute and in business this is definitely the case, at least when it comes to the web. It seems the world’s full of people who firmly believe they can spend thirty bob on a website, put zero effort into the content, offer nothing of value yet still speed up [...]

Don’t Be A (W)Anchor Over Anchor Text

If you are reading this you are interested in SEO. If you are interested in SEO you’ll know what anchor text is. When securing links to your website the anchor text of the link can be important. I say can be because it’s clear it’s not just about the anchor text, the page content plays [...]

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