Author: Romesh

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    In the recent spate of Google’s anti “easy” link updates, also known as Penguin , link removal has become an essential part of SEO. There are many reasons to remove a link: There may be other reasons, but the above are my top five. How Do I Identify Bad Links? To be honest there isn’t…

  • Thousands of Sites That Ban You From Linking To Them

    I always enjoy reading stuff Malcolm Coles puts out. Today, he just dropped a really well written post:15 more sites that forbid you from linking to them Insanity? Yes. It is. In this day and age more links means more more more rankings. So why are these sites not allowing people to link to them?…

  • Nine Ways To Be A Competitive SEO

    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…

  • Link Building Has Sandbox Effect / Transition Rankings

    I haven’t really paid much attention to SEO blogs in the last three months. Part of that reason is that I am insanely busy working on new projects that have little to do with SEO. However that doesn’t mean I don’t check or test stuff. This post is more of an observation and a working…

  • Serp Scraping For Fun and Profit

    Serp Scraping For Fun and Profit

    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: Not all of these are easy to answer,…

  • 9 Ways in which pr teams fail seo

    9 Ways in which pr teams fail seo

    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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  • Domain Research Plugins and Add-ons For Firefox

    Domaining gets a pretty bad reputation. And I can understand why – you dont need to be a rocket scientist to figure out how dodgy some domainers are. But  on the other hand, buying and selling domains, speculating or testing keyword rich domains are part and parcel of the web. If you are into Black Hat…

  • How Long Does A Google Penalty For Bad Links Last?

    Not long if you are owned by Google. Guess who is back in the SERPs with a vengence?I wrote about Beat that Quote and started ranking for it, in fact, I was at position 1 until today morning (they were penalised for shady SEO only a couple of weeks ago). Now Let’s See What Google Has Given…

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