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Why Outsourcing Link Building is Mostly a Waste of Money
I have now been messing about on the Internet for about 3 1/2 years. I have over 30 domains under my belt now. This sounds like a success. It is not. Of these 30 domains, and believe me when I tell you that Webologist is not the one, only one domain ...
Why You Should Outsource Your Link Building / SEO
Link building is unfortunately a necessity for improving the search engine rankings (performance, results page positions) of your website. In and ideal World, quality websites would naturally rise up above all the chaff, and healthy competition would...
Christman Marketing and SEO Campaigns for Your Website
OK, in previous years people have suggested that everyone should be doing Christmas campaigns to win more traffic etc at the busiest shopping time. Christmas is fast approaching, so apart from creating Christmas pages, what sort of things do people d...
How Not To Do Link Building
Just had one of those emails, but this brought email link requests to a new low. Dear Bloger, I recently visit your blog, its looking very cool and use full. dear bloger I am related to web development and me and my team going to creat a IT training ...
10 Key SEO Skills
If you are thinking about a career in SEO, then there are a few key skills that you need master to ensure that you are capable of transforming a clients site into a high ranking masterpiece. Researching markets to determine what is popular and wher...
What Sort of SEO Are You?
OK, I have been learning about SEO for a few years now, and I am still surprised at the little things that I find out for myself. I sometimes wonder to myself, should I tell people? I invariably do, in SEO forums and the like. But some people just ke...
How Ads Can Screw Up Your SEO: Bloomberg.com Example
I love Bloomberg.com, it is possibly my favourite financial news website. Being the lazy person that I so often am though, I do sometimes use Google to navigate to the website, even though I am quite aware of how the address bar in the browser works....
Beginners SEO: “I recently published my first website, but Google does not list me”
“I recently published my first website” That says it all. How recently? How many pages? How many links coming in? Plenty of unique, well written content? Relevant to theme of site? It takes time. You may be in a very competitive market. ...
Google Finally Declares Bing.com a Search Engine
Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, has now been with us for a couple of weeks. There has been a lot of excitement throughout the webmaster world. Will Bing rival Google? Will it be another dud search engine? Some people are reporting that Bin...
How To Test a Website Before Updating Name Server Details
If you are moving a site to a new server, or building a site for a client, and wish to test it before updating the name servers, then this task is very simple to do, especially if you have a Linux PC. All you need to do is add a line in the etc/hosts...
Reyanair Allows Mobile Phones on its Flights
Ryanair has announced that it will allow customers to use their mobile phones while flying. Previously mobile phones were banned due to concerns that they could interfer with flight controls, and also because some passengers do not like to hear other...
Follow or No-Follow Links - Why Use them and Do They Work?
One thing that continues to puzzle many bloggers, web authors and site owners, is when to use rel=”nofollow” within links to external sites, and when to leave it out. And some simply ask, what is rel=”nofollow”? Well, rel=R...
Google Explains its International Approach to Search
Google has this week published some details of its approach to increasing its Search services to a global audience. Although Google has been dominating the English and Spanish markets for some time, but it is aiming to improve the quality of search i...
Google Search Engine Update 31 October 2008 - OCR Update for PDF’s
Today there were quite a few changes in the Google search pages, with many sites dancing a jolly little jig while Google was making an important update to its search algorithm. I was curious, so did a bit of digging, and eventually found a possible r...
