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People often get obsessed by links, and get all wound up about whether a link is nofollowed or not. The truth is, many links have 'secondary' benefits that are far more powerful than a little trickle of link juice. This morning's example is how to get your page on finda[1] ranking in the top 10, instead of somebody else's page on finda. While finda only lists New Zealand businesses, this...
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I think most SEOs would agree that targeted anchor text is one of the most important elements of SEO. Anchor text being the words used inside a link that points to your website. Personally, I have seen great results from using rich anchor text wherever possible on links I build. If you offered to link to me with the text "Harvey Kane's website" or the text "Harvey's SEO blog" I'd go for the...
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I just got tricked into clicking on Google's Adsense today, and I thought it less than amusing how they are starting to use the same dodgy tricks as the other MFA (Made For Adsense) spam sites out there to get more clicks. I'm working on a different monitor today, on a LCD which is a bit...
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Matt Cutts has just announced Google's new witch hunt for paid links[1]. He's been against paid links for sometime, but it now seems the world's biggest vendor of paid links is serious about striking competing paid links from the web. Just to be on the safe side, and so everyone is clear, this...
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I have just released a beta of SEO Form - a Firefox extension which helps you with directory submissions and link exchanges. The tool simply autocompletes common form fields for you such as title, URL, email, keywords etc. To help mix things up a little, you can enter up to 4 titles and 4...
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In the ongoing quest to pump up our traffic by getting creative with various link schemes, it's easy to spend way more time that you should aquiring crappy links. Aaron Wall of SEO Book fame is promoting a new service called Review Me, intended to help people advertise their sites by creating...
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Paris Hilton's reputation is shot - how about yours? John Gergye explains the concept of link reputation, and why this article has anything to do with Paris Hilton. With apologies for the cheap trick of mentioning PARIS HILTON to get your attention, coming to grips with the idea you're about to...
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Buying text links is a common practice for websites that want to rank well. Does buying text links work, and is it effective? Matt Colyer explains... You can rank number one (Or at least in the top ten) for just about any search phrase by just buying text link ads, even if the web site isn't...
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Getting links to your site is an important task in your quest for dominance. Getting links, and getting quality links to your site can be done in several ways which are ethical and not too time consuming. Author Terry Echols explains. In my experience this is the single most important factor...
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