Why we need Web Marketing School Around 3 years ago when I was working in engineering recruitment I decided that I would like a career change and started exploring my options. I never had much in the way of official qualifications as I left school at a young age and entered the world of work.…
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In this article, I’m going to reveal exactly how I was first able to write for The Guardian and how I managed to get some backlinks too. This takes a little bit of effort… First of all, I would like to say that if you are not willing to put in some time and a…
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“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. I can do those things. Because I’m not a hero, not like John Mu. I nuked those sites. That’s what I can be.” Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na… MATTMAN!
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What are these changes you speak of? It appears that Google are either running a test or have recently made a change on how they present page titles and are now using colons as page title separators. Everyone SEO is aware that Google treat hyphens and pipes as keyword separators, and it now appears that…
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Interflora got busted.. So Martin Macdonald broke the news about the demise of Interflora’s search engine rankings and David Naylor’s site published an article pointing out that it appears that advertorials are responsible for the action that has been taken against the site. News sites got busted too.. I have also received information that many…
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Negative SEO I have recently written an article that was featured on The Guardian news site about the dangers of negative SEO practices. Negative SEO is a real problem for businesses which could potentially eradicate your site from the search engine results pages. Disavow Tool At the time of writing the article, there wasn’t really…
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I previously did that a post that mentioned what a great job TripAdvisor was doing at getting a massive amount of multiple listings on the search engine results pages but Google have now put a stop to this with it recent update. Matt mentioned on Twitter that Google have rolled out a small algorithm change…
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Did Google need to Travel at 88MPH to go back in time? Google recently announced that they are going to use meta news keywords tags which is similar to the meta keyword tags that were important back in the early days of search engines before they could understand the meaning of a piece of content.…
DetailsAfter the recent leak of Google’s “Page Quality Rating Guidelines” I thought it would be interesting to carry out an audit of Google’s own website to see how well it does. How do you think it will do? Here are the results of a manual audit of Google.co.uk carried out in line with Google’s quality…
DetailsWhat would a quality rater tell you? If I was to ask someone that was a quality rater at Google what their interface looks like when they were asked to rate side by side search engine results they would probably say it looks something like this. Simple eh? As you can see, the above image…
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