Selling SEO services by spamming people

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I got another spam mail from a company trying to sell their SEO services by spamming people. I get these pretty frequently. So, I am going to quickly explain to this particular company and everyone like them a simple fact: You company probably suck at SEO if you have to resort to spamming to sell …

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What advice would you give to someone trying to optimise (SEO) an e-commerce website?

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This question came up in one of the Google+ Communities where I am active, so I thought it would be  a good idea to share my advice here on the blog as well. The question was originally asked by Lindshay Hopkins in the SEO+ – Search Engine Optimization / Website Design Community on Google+ From what …

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How Content Marketing Helps Your SEO

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You might be hearing the new, latest buzzword to float around the search engine optimization industry – “content marketing.”  Content is king, as they say, but in order to really make it work, you have to think about it strategically.  There are several reasons the interest level in content marketing has skyrocketed recently: Google’s Panda …

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The Pirate Party of Norway opens post office for The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Party of Norway has established a network node for The Pirate Bay (TPB). This entails that network traffic to TPB from our region of the world will pass through Norway, comparable to an electronic post office. From Norway, trafiic is passed on to TPBs servers throughout the world.  [https://blog.brokep.com/2013/02/21/vem-hostar-the-pirate-bay/] This is a symbolic …

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Which Social Media is Best for Your Business?

Like it or not, social media is quickly becoming a requirement for effective online marketing.  There is evidence Some people suggests that Google rewards websites that get a fair amount of social shares with better search rankings. Apart from the search rankings, however, social media works very well as a listening tool.  For example, you can …

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How to Increase Site Speed and Boost Your Rankings

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On April 9, 2010, in its own Webmaster Blog, Google announced the following: “You may have heard that here at Google we’re obsessed with speed, in our products and on the web. As part of that effort, today we’re including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed.”   As SEOs, we don’t know to what …

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How to Protect Your Site’s Content

If it wasn’t all about content in the past, Google is certainly all about content now.  Websites with rich, informative types of content and readerships that keep coming back for more rank higher than “plain-jane” websites that blend in by offering something similar to everyone else. Developing stellar content is challenging, but much of your …

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Is Your Business Local? Learn How to Optimize Google Places

Google rewards local searches more than ever.  Why?  Because people want relevant results, and if Google provides local results instead of national ones when people actually have that preference, it gives them one more reason to use their search engine instead of others. According to a report by reputed research firm ComScore, around 3 billion …

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