Finding similar sites for your link research

January 24, 2011

One of my favourite ways to build up a link building prospect list is to find a few sites which I think I can get a link from, either with a simple link request, a guest post, a payment or something more creative, then to dig around for similar sites which might also make good [...]

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Best of the Web Advertising

January 11, 2011

I’ve been using site sponsorship on botw.org recently and been getting some really good results so I thought I’d do a quick write up. For those who don’t know Best of the Web is one of the oldest web directories about, and one of the few which have managed to maintain a decent editorial standard [...]

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Content Development with Raven Tools & Textbroker

January 6, 2011

When I wrote my Raven Tools review before christmas one of the points I made was this… What I’d really like to see here is an integration with the textbroker API so you can order content and have it dropped straight into your Raven account to push out to your blogs. Sure enough Raven announced [...]

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Getting the edge with manual link building

January 3, 2011

When most people think of manual link building they think high volume, low quality, low skill labour. This is one of the reasons link buildings got a bit of a bad name and most SEO bloggers prefer to talk about more exciting stuff, like link bait. The truth is though manual link building still works [...]

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Online Casino SEO

December 21, 2010

There was a talk on this subject at the SEOmoz pro seminar earlier in the year which I was looking forward to but which I felt really didn’t give anything useful away so I want to make this post as detailed and useful as possible. If I miss anything you think should be included let [...]

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Raven SEO Tools Review

December 13, 2010

Don’t you hate it when SEO blogs start doing reviews to try to shift shitty tools with big affiliate paychecks?! I’ve wanted to do a review of Raven tools for a while but have resisted it until now for that very reason. As a precursor to the first review type post I’ve written here I [...]

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SEO theories I can’t prove

December 7, 2010

This is a post I started writing ages ago and didn’t finish. This week people have been talking about Google’s latest revelation that they’re using Tweets and Facebook likes as part of their organic search algorithm. If you read my post on building links to ecommerce product pages you’ll know that this is something I’ve [...]

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Ranking for competitor brand terms

November 25, 2010

This is one of those techniques which is rarely talked about when it comes to commercial SEO campaigns but its one of my favourite ways to grab extra traffic and piss off competitors in the process;-) As any affiliates out there will know one of the easiest and most profitable ways to make money with [...]

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Hiding links with the robots meta tag

October 27, 2010

If you’ve read my posts before you might of notice I’m a little paranoid about competitors mining my links. In part that’s because I don’t want them to see some of the stuff I’m up to! But more importantly when you’re working in competitive sectors like gambling or travel every link counts and the difference [...]

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How to change your ranking page & get an indented listing

October 18, 2010

Here’s the situation- you rank for a keyword. Great. But the wrong page is ranking. Not the end of the world sure but just like with a PPC campaign making sure the most targeted page is ranking for any particular keyword is the easiest way to improve your conversion rate. Also if you find you’ve [...]

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My anchor text strategy

September 21, 2010

I’ve read a couple of interesting posts in the last week which make opposing claims about what link factors seem to be the most powerful at the moment. Tim from seowizz did some good research and concluded that anchor text is less important now than trust while The main takeaway from this post by Glen [...]

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More ways to stop competitors copying your links

September 1, 2010

A while back I posted about how you might be able to stop some of your less savy competitors copying your links. As a follow up I’ve just done a guest post over at sem-group.net entitled ‘How to stop your competitors copying your links‘ which discusses a few more ways you could go about hiding [...]

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What is (and isn’t) the definition of a long tail keyword

August 25, 2010

I’ve seen and heard people misunderstanding the idea of long-tail keywords right from newbie SEO account managers to SEO expert speakers at £500 a seat conferences. I really don’t think its that hard to get but there’s a lot of mis-information about, like the definition Google have chosen… Long tail keywords actually have nothing to [...]

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When does it make sense to buy links

August 2, 2010

OK so I know the fashion for SEO blogs these days is bashing link buying or ‘outing’ sites or agencies who are doing it but allow me to play devils advocate for a minute. Forget about ‘ethics’, ‘outing’ or the threat of penalties for a couple of minutes and bare with me while I discuss [...]

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Lonely Planet start nofollowing links on Lonelyplanet.com

July 29, 2010

This is a pretty boring post but it might be relevant to anyone doing SEO for travel sites. I’ve noticed a few links I’ve got on lonelyplanet.com have had nofollow’s added to them. These aren’t links I’ve dropped in the forum of anything like that, its the proper links which the editors have handpicked for [...]

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