So i got up this morning and looked at one the Google serps I was interested in and spotted a new competitor had came from nowhere to grab a few decent positions. Curious as to how they had achieved it (!), I thought I would have a look at their back-link profile. My first destination these [...]
Link Research Tools from Cemper – Highly Recommended SEO Tools
I’ve been playing about with the seo tools from CEMPER, Link Research Tools, for a few months now, and they are amongst the very best link research tools I’ve ever used. In fact, having these tools running in the background is a bit like having an extra member of staff. That’s praise indeed, if you know [...]
Is This Proof Directory Submission Still Works?
EDIT 2013 – NOTE – This tactic is very risky in 2013! I’d stay well clear of cheap directory submission services these days. Just because a tactic works, does not mean it’s safe to use, in 2013. I often look for false positives in Google. A false positive (in this sense) is when a site [...]
Links On Republished Duplicate Posts Pass Value?
An observation I think that links on duplicate posts which have been stolen – duplicated and republished – still pass anchor text value (even if it is a light boost). Take this Cheeky beggar…. - he nicked my what is seo post I did in 2007 and stripped out all my links (cheek!) and published the [...]
Ontolo Link Building Tool Launch: Q/A with CMO Garrett French
FOR LINK BUILDERS: I’ve known Garrett French for quite a while now – he interviewed ME twice for Search Engine Land – and since then he’s been tearing up the link building space with regular posts from the Ontolo link building blog… Garrett is a proper old-school geek link builder – if you are into [...]

