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This is a great article from Lisa Barone at Outspoken Media you should have a quick read about promoting your website online (or rather, promoting good content you have on your website, when you get around to adding it). (more…)

We've recently updated our comments policy and increased the number of comments a visitor has to make to get seo friendly links in comment signatures to reward long term readers and make it a bit harder for dofollow spammers ;) - I told you dofollow spamming wasn't a long term strategy....

US based Aaron Wall is quite probably my favourite SEO blogger, and has been since long before I started blogging myself.

I pinged Aaron and asked him if he would take me through the basics of keyword research for those readers of the blog who are just starting out, and help me create a beginner’s guide to keyword research, as it’s one area I’ve not really touched on. (more…)

Google is a truth engine to some, but Google’s reliance on trust and domain authority (while good for those who understand how to leech leverage traffic from such sources) delivers some weird search terms. (more…)

A UK OfCOM report discovered that 32% of 12- to 15-year-olds believed Google & other major search engines rank pages in the results by their “truthfulness”. In short, a truth engine.

While two-thirds of children aged 12-15 (66%) make some kind of check when visiting new websites, a sizeable minority (25%) do not tend to make any checks. Both of these measures are unchanged since 2007. One in five 12-15s who use search engines say they do not know how results are ordered (18%), and one in three thinks that the most truthful are shown first (32%). Ofcom

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I was so impressed with local Port Glasgow commercial photographer Michael Laverty (0794 386 5557) (fresh out of Reid Kerr College) with the work he completed for us as part of his HND course at Reid Kerr, that we created a quick site for him to promote his new photography business. (more…)

A useful post and advice from Google how to handle duplicate content: (more…)

Be careful checking Google and Twitter (in fact everyware) looking for an invite to Google Wave. (more…)

Have you heard about Google Wave? From what we’ve seen, this could very well revolutionise development and co-operation for techie folks and today Google begins to roll out Google Wave to more developers, just as they did Gmail. (more…)

I was talking to SEO Idiot (a very cool chap) at the very cool Think Visibility and one of the things we discussed was getting banned by Google from it’s Adsense advertising program and getting your account reinstated. (more…)

This ones a good one – Advanced Web Rankings – CLICK HERE for more info

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I’ve tried a lot of ways to check rankings in search engines (mainly Google, Yahoo and Bing) over the years and generally speaking I’ve been dissappointed with most if not all of them. (more…)