Dynamic Meta Descriptions for SEO

October 21, 2011

I often say that you need to try new things, test new theories, play with the SERPs as often as you can. After all, if you blindly follow what others, and don’t try your own experiments, you won’t be a competitive SEO.  At the same time, read others experiments, learn from them, but try and [...]

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Nine Ways to be a Competitive SEO

September 21, 2011

This post has been inspired and adapted from one of my favourite non-SEO bloggers, James Altucher. He recently wrote: 9 Ways to break all the rules.
As an SEO, regardless to the fact we proscribe or prescribe the definition, our jobs are to get our content high up enough in SERPs to attract searchers into our [...]

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A Guide to Long Tail Link Building

September 16, 2011

When it comes to a link building exercise for clients, I tend to prefer a long tail strategy rather than a top level generic strategy. Long tail Link building? What the heck is that? Why don’t we just chuck all our links with the exact anchors that we want for our money words?
To start with, [...]

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

July 15, 2011

I was researching the niche on one of my new domain purchases, 24hrloans.co.uk, and guess what I found? The internet never ceases to amaze me.
Thoughts?
Dont tell me how dodgy it is, tell me how they did it. I have covered it before, so you should know.  See the site for different serps, see the site [...]

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9 Ways in Which PR Teams Fail SEO

July 13, 2011

When PR Doesnt work with SEO and loses link opportunities.
I know How powerful SEO and PR can be. You do too, I am sure. PR is the one way to get legitimate “white hat” links of real authority. However, we are far from working well together with PR. Below I have highlighted 9 mistakes [...]

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Effects of Panda on Thin Affiliate Sites

July 11, 2011

This is not going to be a long post, nor is it going to teach much. I am putting it out as a way of an early warning system for thin affiliate sites that survived the panda effect.
Basics  Of Thin Affiliates
I run a few data collecting (and money making) thin affiliate sites. I dont hide [...]

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What We Learnt From a Pills Link Hacker

April 18, 2011

This post is a first for me. First time there is a guest post (well semi-guest) on this site. It also is my first collaboration with one of my favourite Research SEOs Neyne.  Neyne (Real name Branko Rihtman) doesn’t blog very often, but when he does it is always worth a read. This is a [...]

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Wordpress Plugins Security Flaw – A Blackhats Dream

April 8, 2011

Part of understanding Blackhat and Hacker Spam is to put yourself it their mindset. And that means asking “How Can I Use This For My Benefit?”
Well I have been doing a lot of that lately. And one of the genius ideas that I had was full site takeovers. Then I toned it down. And then [...]

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Content Spinning : Article Spinning

April 6, 2011

The Best Content Spinner

An Idiots Guide to Content Spinning!
Everyone has heard of Article Spinning. Many SEOs and Affiliates have tried it. But I dont think a large number of SEOs understand it. Let’s take the no.1  result on the search “Article Spinning”
(shock horror, its wikipedia )
Article spinning is a search engine optimization technique [...]

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SERP Scraping for Fun and Profit Case Study: Facebook

March 30, 2011

So a little while ago I pointed out that Facebook is running a massive Grayhat Strategy to Rank for Longtail in the SERPs, essentially carrying out SERP Sniffing to an insanely large scale, with the view of potentially building a community driven Content Farm. Some really interesting questions popped to mind:

How many keywords are they [...]

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