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Social Networks and Search – will they just spoil each other?

bill — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:38:07 +0000

Social is all over the place these days – even the mainstream media mentions it often, particularly at the moment with Facebook having just announced major changes at F8 and with Google pushing Google+ as a major alternative. Following so many SEO-related blogs and Twitter feeds as I do it’s easy to get the feeling [...]

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Links – are there any genuine link builders out there?

bill — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:52:52 +0000

In recent months I’ve been thinking a lot about links. I’ll say straight away that getting them has never been a particular strength of mine – I’m more of a structural, technical and content SEO – but analysing them is definitely something I know about. I used to think that I actually wasn’t very good [...]

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Pressing the wrong international buttons

bill — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:10:06 +0000

A Tale of Edinburgh University Press and search engines This weekend I was doing some research for additional content for my Scottish Books site and had occasion to do a Google search for Edinburgh University Press. To my surprise their site didn’t appear in the first page of results, or the second, or the third. [...]

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Should you follow the SEO rockstars?

bill — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:25:59 +0000

In the old days if you wanted to learn a subject you read a book on it. That doesn’t work with SEO because it’s a very fast-moving subject and by the time anyone writes a book about it and goes through the publication process the information is inevitably at least partly out of date. So [...]

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Back in the saddle

bill — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:22:10 +0000

Hell, it’s been a long time since I’ve done any blogging. Major life events – bereavements in family and friends, divorce, house purchase, and a load of other stuff – have rather got in the way and my clients’ sites have had priority. Now safely settled in a new house and office and with Spring [...]

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Ethical internet marketing in an unethical world

bill — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:44:43 +0000

I’ve never been a great fan of television but this last week or so I’ve been down with flu and often unable to sleep for coughing, but when I wasn’t in bed I had very little concentration to do any work that I felt I could rely on, so had to resort to the dreaded [...]

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PageRank Distribution and Navigation Systems

bill — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:27:25 +0000

Ok, this post is aimed at SEOs rather than a general audience, and is something I’ve been mulling over for quite some time without getting round to posting about it. I got the nudge to finally do so from a post on Search Engine Land – PageRank Sculpting Leaves NoFollowed Tags Behind . In that [...]

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Google site command oddities

bill — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:03:22 +0000

For some time I’ve been noticing irregularities in the results of the information that Google provides through the various commands and through the Webmaster Tools facility. Of course we all know the link command has been hopelessly broken for many years and frankly I don’t know why it’s still there, but the site command was [...]

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Constant change needs constant rethinks

bill — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:36:35 +0000

The last few months have been a whirl of business development, networking, new clients and juggling time constraints – not to mention trying to keep up with Google’s ever-changing activities. So maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise to read my own main website and find loads of things that I need to rewrite and [...]

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Webmaster Tools drops the pixie dust

bill — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:41:09 +0000

In the last few days there have been some additions and one removal from Webmaster Tools. The removal is in some ways the more interesting for what it might signal for the future – Pagerank is no longer being mentioned. Now it was never much of a feature – they told you if you had [...]

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