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June 11, 2010
Social Bookmarking for SEO
This is a common and very sensible practice for anybody looking to improve their visibility in search results, for beginners here is a quick help guide from SEO Essex, its not just an SEO gimmick its a viable and common sense approach for anybody looking to make sales or get feedback from their website.
Social bookmarks are important for a number of reasons, they are trusted resources and although they are often a little abused by the SEO industry the facilities are pretty good at spotting spam. They...
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June 9, 2010
Amazing success for SEO Essex – Now on Page 1
Well just over two months into this new venture and this morning sees the SEO Essex website move onto page 1, it is remarkable progress for a brand new domain name. Whats more remarkable is that I used a softly softly approach, no spamming and traditional SEO techniques.
This strategy has been about quality SEO implementation and common sense, using shared hosting, a brand new domain and free Wordpress software I have engineered prime time real estate on page 1 of...
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June 8, 2010
SEO rules do affect blogs – SEO Essex included!
One thing to remember when using Wordpress blogs is to get a good SEO plugin installed, this is especially important if you are using the Wordpress platform as an actual website (such as this one). I have the latest SEO plugins installed and they assist with everything from unique deployment of meta information to the compliant structuring of URLs.
The problem is that when the SEO plugin is installed webmasters and bloggers think the job is done and they do not need to...
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June 4, 2010
Well I have been quite busy in the last few days as well as my corporate activity I have also initiated a good link strategy, carefully placed content and social bookmarks plus a few requests to link to what I have been writing here. I have noticed a couple of unexpected link spikes that I am unhappy about and it looks as though somebody has done a little bit of activity to try and undermine my domain, this type of activity is common place but I am hoping that Google...
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June 2, 2010
Google May Day Update – still rumbling on…
After watching Matt Cutts talk about the May Day update again (I have watched it 5 times now) I still have a feeling there is more to it, obviously Google and SEO don’t sit easily together even when SEO is applied in a most responsible way so Google will always tinker with the system.
Whilst tinkering is one thing major updates are another, they come in a number of ways that affect SEO with the most significant and life changing having actual names, Florida,...
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June 2, 2010
Page Rank Sculpting
Whilst I have been concentrating on tracking the progress of this particular website in Google I think its about time to start some general SEO discussion on subjects relating to our glorious SEO industry.
One of the common phrases that are still used in major SEO pitches is the term Page Rank Sculpting or PR Siloing, bascally its a method that used to be widely used to push page rank or Google PR into different sections of a website. In its most common format webmasters would put ‘no follow’...