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SEO and web designers don’t often see eye to eye, but Topseos might give us web designers something to agree on with those scummy seo

Shaun has a bee in his bonnet about Topseos – which is naturally ALL OPINION as this article is.

Supposedly, Topseos rank the Best SEO companies in the world – see this list. Now, they call themselves the independent authority on search vendors, and give out awards every month to the ‘winners’ but the SEO community forced an apology from topseos here. (more…)

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SEO Geek stuff

Why do seo publicly out other seo’s strategies? If it’s not for selfish competitive reasons, they are stupid. I mean, why unrinate in the well we are all drinking from? (more…)

A lot of folk have been complaining about loss of traffic on especially long tail searches. My initial thought was to do with internal linking because that’s how I’ve traditionally ‘optimised’ for the long tail & increased serps competition etc – but a lot of different things could be at play. (more…)

I don’t really try to manipulate Google PR that much – I think Google kicks back too much these days in the short term at any rate – but I do like to see which pages: (more…)

Heads up – This week I am sticking to internal links. I think I have a post a day in me. Feel free to post any questions or disagreements in the comments.

I’ve been talking to someone recently about internal linking, pagerank, RSS & xml sitemaps – and how they all hang together -  and I thought I’d just share how I think about it – especially on sites with lesser domain authority.

Remember Google uses Pagerank, to determine “the importance of a page” so: (more…)

When I find a simple tool I like I usually stick with it forever. But with Hittail totally whacked the last 2 weeks, i was forced to look elsewhere for my real time traffic stats. I am so glad I did. (more…)

I don’t out individuals for seo tactics, and I don’t out the myriad of purveyors of link prospects who contact me every day, non-stop. (more…)

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Shaun very kindly reminded me just a couple of days ago that he’d said I could post to Hobo-Web some time back – but with the busyness of business of late, it had totally slipped my mind!  And oh what an honour it is, sat amongst the likes of such contributors such as Shana Albert, Jeff Quipp, Tim Nash, Ann Smarty and SebastianX and Jim Boykin.

Now, I could be feeling pretty smug with myself at this point for reaching such a career highlight by posting on Hobo Web, but feel it’s more to do with Shaun attempting to distract me away from promoting a certain pic of a certain gentlemen struggling along with a horrific hangover some time ago…!    Haha, not forgotten (EDIT BY Shaun – I have no idea what you are on about but I hope any such obviously faked images have been destroyed )

So anyway, whilst I’m here, let’s talk SAScon… (more…)