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

Will Link SPAM Unravel in 2010?

I was reading a well known forum this week. In the SEO section there’s thread after thread promoting and asking about link spamming techniques. There’s everything from software that automatically creates profiles on forums to offers of a 1000 PR5 links for thirty bob and a fried fish. There are also a shed load of [...]

The Very Basics of SEO

So here we are in 2010. A new year and you are hoping for great things from your website in this new, potentially austere, decade. Utterly confused about how to make your website more effective you trawl the web looking for a silver bullet. Here’s a simple basic SEO overview and description. What does Google [...]

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 [...]

What is a Good Quality Link?

A client asked me “What is a good quality link and how do I get a good quality link. You said reciprocal links were no good is that correct?“. This was my response. Reciprocal links are not always bad. If a site selling diving holidays links to a site selling wetsuits and the wetsuit site [...]

Twenty Quid for a Link!?

I’ve started frequenting another forum, sad I know but I enjoy helping people to better understand the apparent complexities of web land. A link building question caught my eye so I clicked in and was quite amused to see someone state that “some SEO companies are charging £20 for one link!” as if that was [...]

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