Well, not really a shock, but good that Google has come out and said this finally.
We have know for a long time that the ‘keyword’ Meta tag was not being used by Google. There was also the suspicion that both Yahoo and Microsoft weren’t using it too. As we know the tag had been open [...]

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Very eloquent title, eh?
Still, now I have got your attention, are they? Just a little bit stupid? Or redundant? Or boring?
Not going to go massively indepth here (it’s in the training course!), but I have just been doing some analysis for a new client and part of this was checking out the competition. Now I [...]

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Sorry for the lack of posting recently. What with one thing or another, I just haven’t had the time to get some done. Maybe it is the temptation to just micro blog things now. Still, no excuses.
As you will have noticed I put up a box on the top right a while ago offering a [...]

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My goodness, I knew that Matt was making some videos about questions he has had regarding SEO, etc., but I didn’t realise how many he had made. Well done Matt, it must have been a hell of a session(s).
I found this video regarding checking for back links, etc. Matt also mentions the ‘link:’ search command. [...]

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Have you ever received one of those emails that says,
“As you may know Google puts a great deal of store in incoming links. We have noticed that your site has very few incoming links according to Google. You can try this for yourself by typing ‘link:www.yourwebite.co.uk’ into Google. This will show you how many incoming [...]

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Do you use the many Google search operators to slice and dice your search results to best effect for your SEO link building work? This is a great way to hone your searching and bring to the forefront some interesting and valid potential link partners.
Here is a basic helpsheet on Google search operators that will [...]

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Last post on this one from me (famous last words…).
Great article from Danny Sullivan today on PageRank sculpting. Saves me a lot of work, thanks Danny. Also, included is a video from Matt Cutts from May (I will include below in any case), which unfortunately I missed the first time around (if I had seen [...]

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OK, I was a bit wrong. Not 100% wrong, but a bit wrong. Let me explain…
Firstly, here is Matt Cutts’ latest post on PageRank sculpting.
Now rather than write a whole new article on this, here is my comment on Matt’s blog.
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Matt,
Before I start this, I am using the term ‘PageRank’ as a general term fully [...]

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I didn’t realise this was going on. I am a bit behind with my reading.
In essence, Matt Cutts mentioned some things that has put some panic in the SEO community about ‘nofollow’ and PageRank sculpting.
Danny Sullivan puts together a good post on the two biggest things to come out of the SMX Advanced event. Namely, [...]

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Just enjoy…
www.booneoakley.com
Oh, also I linked to them (with a ‘dofollow’) just because I really liked it. Maybe they know more about SEO than they think they do (or I think they do!).

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I always look closely at all of Google’s new tools. How I wish that Google Squared was around when I was at school!
Apart from the ways it can save you time in starting an information collection based activity or project, have a think about it from a link building persepctive.
Do you think the information sources [...]

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Apart from sounding like a children’s book about frogs or rabbits or both (hey, look out for the animated film too; Tom Hanks is the voice for the Flash character!), Google, JavaScript and Flash now have a slightly different relationship.
This is a slow evolution based upon Google’s need to index the web like no one [...]

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All you devotees of ‘advanced search’ in Google will not see tuns of new things here. But, the way Google have put together ‘Search Options’ is good and makes the process a lot quicker. Also, the ‘wheel thing’ (can’t remember the exact name, looks like a kind of mind map to me) is great for [...]

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As a rule, changing any element of an established URL and URL structure on your site is a no no. I can’t think of any reason for this to be a good idea. However, sometimes this does become necessary.
I had an occasion today to change one of the URLs on one of my affiliate sites, [...]

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Well, free as in you don’t need to buy any software, etc. Or anything in fact.
Here it is…

Pick one of your competitors on the web who are doing better than you for your chosen search term (better to choose one of your less competitive terms/competitors for this tip).
Go to Yahoo Site Explorer and input their URL [...]

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