Make your website the ideal date, or link partner
When your site’s going a-courting, it really needs to have every hair in place, its best shoes shined, and that cheeky gleam in its eye. It can’t be the sort of site that looks like the love ‘em and...
View ArticleLink schemes are like a leprechaun’s gold
Dreaming of thousands of links for a teeny tiny investment? Thinking it would be nice to have all the links you need within budget and within time? Why not try this wonderful new link scheme. All you...
View ArticleSite-wide links: kill or cure?
The scenario: a growing website gets site-wide links from a more powerful site. With a link either in the footer or sidebar of the linking site, suddenly you’re getting a link from every single page,...
View ArticleDon’t let your link building crash and burn
Let me just say this: Icarus was an idiot. The boy who flew too close to the sun, ignoring the warnings of his inventor father, Daedalus, could have avoided tragedy if he had just been a little more...
View ArticleWhat Google’s author tag means for you
Reputation building is a lot easier if you can link quality content to your own or your business name. For site owners struggling to push their business forward, there’s good news. Google has recently...
View ArticleIf buying links gets results, why shouldn’t I use them?
Ever since Google first coined the phrase PageRank, and started to rank websites based on the number of links they had as opposed to the number of times a keyword was written on the page, people have...
View ArticleLink building farms causing trouble
Link building is an important part of any business’s search engine optimisation campaign but some online business owners are still going to link building farms in order to get the job done. Promises of...
View ArticleHow to deal with a link penalty from Google
Over the last few months many website owners have received unnatural links warnings from Google in their Webmaster Tools message sections. These messages aren’t, as some SEOs would have you believe, a...
View ArticleHow to build links fast
There are many different link building strategies in Internet marketing, with a lot of SEO companies still going down the paid links route. Paid links however are frowned upon by Google and are not a...
View ArticleWhat’s more important in SEO, content or links?
When an SEO company performs search engine optimisation on a website, the on-page SEO techniques that are used make up only a small percentage of the actual work that is required to ensure a website...
View ArticleBuffy the Vampire Slayer’s guide to SEO
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, had seven glorious years on our TV screens battling the forces of darkness from demons to robots to gods, yet how would the Slayer and her Scooby gang cope with the arduous...
View ArticleHow to get your website banned by Google
Earlier this week we wrote the seven golden rules of SEO. These were rules that you should follow for a successful SEO campaign. What if you don’t want successful SEO though? What if you want to get...
View ArticleFive websites you could use for SEO
Link building is one of the most time consuming aspects of any SEO campaign. It’s time consuming because finding websites with which to build links to your website is difficult. You need to find...
View ArticleSpam comments and SEO
Most SEO professionals know that link building is an important part of any SEO strategy. It’s also fairly well known that building links from relevant websites is better than links from irrelevant...
View ArticleMegan Fox is the secret to SEO success
Megan Fox may have only emerged in recent years (largely due to the first Transformers movie from Michael Bay) but she has quickly established herself as something of an icon. She has been nicknamed...
View ArticleHow Megan Fox can earn traffic for your website
Earlier this week we wrote about how Megan Fox was the biggest secret in SEO and how writing about Megan can earn you hundreds and thousands of visitors and links; now here’s the proof. Just a few...
View ArticleContent for Christmas: The gift that keeps on giving!
‘Tis the season to be jolly, and generous with your gifts of course. When getting a Christmas gift for your website, the gift of content is one that keeps on giving. What do we mean by this? If you...
View ArticleWhat came first, the content or the links?
It’s not quite the chicken and the egg question, but for Internet marketers it’s on a par with it. There are, as always, two sides to the debate. Luckily, for clarity, we can call those two sides:...
View ArticleCan you tell how much traffic a website receives by looking at it?
When you’re evaluating a website for SEO, or if you’re looking at a website as a potential link partner, or from the view of a merchant on an affiliate network, you need to try to work out how...
View ArticleWhy was my article submission declined?
Article submissions are a common way for webmasters and SEO companies to build links for websites. An article submission is an article or news story written about your industry. It has to be unique,...
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