Latest Blog Posts:Yahoo! Gets With The IP DeliveryI am pleased to report that this morning when I attempted to go to http://www.yahoo.com I was redirected to the UK version http://uk.yahoo.com.It was just the other week when I was complaining about this not working properly and I think Brian mentioned it in his Yahoo! rant somewhere.I have got a co [...]
Has Sphinn Traffic Increased?Just been looking at my statistics tonight and I am pleased to report that according to Google Analytics Sphinn has sent 286 unique visitors to my last article Linking To The BBC Will Boost Your Google Ranking.When I wrote the traffic estimate article on the 19th of February I said that on average [ [...]
The Times: Linking To The BBC Will Boost Your Google RankingO.K. I am going to pick on The Times because it is funny. On Sunday they published an article entitled Searching to get to the top of Google.Most of the article is O.K. and it is nice to see SEO getting mentioned in a major newspaper, however some of their facts are a little off.On [...] [...]
How To Get a PageRank 4/10 on a Ezine ArticleI have given article submission a good bashing in the past mainly because of the way most people approach it. However recently with the web directories not working the way they used to and stuff I have been trying everything to compete with paid links.The way I saw it was if I was [...] [...]
Is Linkbaiting Overrated?I have been experimenting with linkbaiting for my clients for that 8 months or so now and so far the ROI has been fairly poor. Some of the linkbaits that I have done gained links from many of the top blogs on the net and still I have seen no marked improvements in rankings on [...] [...]
Effective Ways To Protect Your Blog’s Search Engine RankingsImage Credit: copyrightThe following post has been written by Aaron Wall of SEO Book, more of his articles can be found at his blog.There are a number of ways to protect your blog from piracy, but there is a tangible cost no matter what you do, and sometimes letting them steal it actually helps you [...]
How to Add Nofollow to the More Tags in Wordpress BlogsAlthough I do not currently use read more tags on this blog one of my SEO/link building clients does. I decided that it was a waste of PageRank to have the more tags followed and went about finding some information on how add nofollow to the links. But I could not find any, after a [...] [...]
The Biggest Google Sitelink Update EverJust done a search on Google and this site has received the Google sitelinks that I have been longing for (yes I am a huge nerd). It looks to have been a big update, the biggest ever in fact and tons of new sites have got them:Image: search on google for seocoSite architecture and age [...] [...]
Google: Bush Still a FailureImage Credit: george bushI don’t know if this is new one or not but I just stumbled across George Bush ranking on Google for a new phrase ‘who is a failure‘.Up until about a year or so ago his page ranked on Google for the phrase ‘miserable failure‘ because a group of b [...]
Just How Much Traffic Can You Get From Social Media Websites?Image Credit: headlight morning glowThis article has been added to the Mahalo Social Media page, the social media traffic averages change quite regularly so the page will be updated with new stats from time to time.If you get your content right, social media sites can send 10’s of thousands of vis [...]