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Got My Pagerank Back

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s been a big few days.
First up, it was my Dad’s 80th birthday & the family got together over the weekend in Sydney to celebrate together. It was a big commute from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland (for a Saturday lunch) but so worth it. Hats off to niece Melissa, who travelled all the way […]

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A New Business Model for SEOBook

February 19th, 2008 · No Comments

This morning I received an email from Aaron Wall, of SEOBook fame, who advises that from 20 February (that’s tomorrow, folks) he will be switching from an ebook sales model to a web-based resource supported by a forum. Here’s what he had to say:
Over the course of the past couple years it became obvious to […]

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Social Bookmarking Sites That Don’t “NoFollow”

January 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Here is a quick and dirty followup to my NoFollowFree (NOFF) post of a few days ago. I just found a list of social bookmarking sites that do NOT enforce the “nofollow” tag for submitted links.
http://www.maranan.us/list-of-do-follow-social-bookmarks/
So get submitting! Seriously this list is only an hour old. And greets to Alibata, who assembled the list.

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Three Titles for Blogs – Do You Use Them Effectively?

January 16th, 2008 · 9 Comments

This is the second of a two-part series on writing and using web page titles. The first post is about killer web page titles, and you can find it here.
Today, however, I want to introduce you to the three “titles” that matter on WordPress blogs, and how you use them to best advantage.

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Can You Write Killer Page Titles?

January 15th, 2008 · 12 Comments

Ask any SEO expert, and it’s likely they will tell you that the <title> element in a web page’s <head> section is the single most important factor to maximise search engine visibility. Create a title, they say, that includes the key term you’re optimising the page for… given time, links and luck, you should have […]

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Is Your robots.txt File Killing Your Search Engine Rankings?

January 8th, 2008 · 18 Comments

Way back in April 2007 I wrote a post about robots.txt, a small text file that instructs search engines about what can and can’t be indexed on your site.
Since moving to Wordpress a few months ago, it’s become clear that Wordpress has a few issues with duplicate content. In essence, it generates multiple URLs that […]

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Search Operators: The Definitive List UPDATE!!

January 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments

– 7 Jan 2008 update –
Since publishing this post on Friday, I’ve discovered a few more Google operators that were undocumented on the help pages.  These are detailed in the text below, but listed here for your reference:

allinanchor:
allintext:
author:
group:
id:
inanchor:
insubject:
intext:
movie:
phonebook:
rphonebook:

If you know of any others, please email me!
– original post follows –
During our “analyze” phase, we spend […]

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Can Blogs Help SEO? - Part 2

November 14th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve proven that blogs can and do play a positive role in SEO. Now my clients are generally small businesses with low traffic web sites, and an extra 50 visitors a day can and does mean additional business for many of them. That’s the perspective I have; if you think in terms of thousands of […]

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Wordpress and ‘nofollow’

November 14th, 2007 · No Comments

A few experts told me that yesterday’s post about blog link love was wrong. Didn’t I know that Wordpress automatically added rel=”nofollow” to all embedded links?
Bullshit.
Only to links within comments, you dumbasses. Not posts. And yes I know Wordpress has been doing that since 1.5, and I also know there’s a bunch of plugins […]

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Can Blogs Help SEO? - Part 1

November 13th, 2007 · No Comments

This and tomorrow’s post cover ways in which blogs can be used to improve rankings of your main web site.
In this post, I deal with a technique that uses blogs to create lots and lots of backlinks. As you read this, you’ll see I don’t think it works.
In tomorrow’s post, I deal with a couple […]

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