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Archive for ‘SEO Advice’
Have you ever done any guest blogging? Here’s a few tips on how to stay safe and avoid breaching search engine guidelines.
Choose Wisely
Google has 25,270,000,000 pages in their index. Imagine a tiny little fraction of their index to represent your guest blogging opportunities.
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While Google seems to push webmasters to the limit of their patience with new updates and rules Bing seems to be claiming more and more followers with updates that were brought by listening to the complaints of the unsatisfied webmasters tired of Google’s rein.
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This is an inspiring article for those involved in optimising eCommerce site and struggling with content quality.
You run an online store and have hundreds or even thousands of products. You’re pretty happy with its structure, pages are canonicalised, conversions are decent and you just need some more traffic.
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A lot of webmasters judge the popularity of their content by observing the number of links pointing to their pages. The problem is that a footer link from a single domain can create 100,000 links. This does not carry the same value as if 100,000 websites linked to your page.
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Here’s our digest of the most important clarifications from the most recent post on unnatural link notifications.

Recent unnatural link notification messages [2] issued by Google caused much confusion among webmasters and few were certain of their purpose and severity. Last week Matt Cutts offered a brief explanation in his Google+ post [3], and later in the week a post was published on Google’s “Webmaster Central Blog” [1].
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Why is it that the first thing we think of when traffic goes down is that we’ve been penalised by Google?

Penalties are a relatively rare thing and apply only to a very tiny fraction of the web, when a penalty strikes though, there is no doubt about it – the effects are devastating.
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Some of your links are being ignored, says Google, but we won’t penalise you as you may in fact be innocent.

On Jul 19, 2012 Google Webmaster Tools issued a scary notification to numerous webmasters advising that their website was in breach of Google’s quality guidelines.
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Stop! Is your link outreach targeting total strangers? Start with your Twitter followers instead, but do it the smart way.

I see many SEOs and link builders reach out to people without leveraging existing relationships and connections. In a recent article I talk about scanning referral traffic to get link ideas and connect with the right people.
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Referrer traffic monitoring. A great tactic for building good links which won’t harm your website.

This one is real nice and easy, and everyone can do it. The chance is, your website likely already earns real natural links (if it doesn’t then you may have to look at what you’re doing wrong with your content anyway).
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