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I’ve spent the past 10 years reading what webmasters speculate Google is doing and what Google has done during it’s algorithm updates and invariable most are wrong, nothing has changed with the latest Google Panda algorithm update, there’s so much SEO misinformation out there in forums etc… I’ll give an example from the past, the [...]

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Can a blackhat SEO consultant ever go too far? I think that was answered earlier today when the Google employee Matt Cutts SEO blog was hacked by the owner of a blackhat SEO blog. Whitehat SEO Turns to the Dark side! In a moment of madness the whitehat of Matt Cutts was temporarily tossed aside [...]

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It’s that time of year again when Google invites college and university students to work on open source projects http://code.google.com/soc/, see http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/03/now-accepting-student-applications-for.html Now Accepting Student Applications for Google Summer of Code 2007 for how to apply etc… WordPress (the CMS used for this site) is participating in Google’s Summer of Code and until the 24th [...]

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There’s quite a bit of confusion over 301 redirects and how they effect SEO and a sites rankings. We’ve extensively used permanent 301 redirects on both our own and client sites and in this article I’ll explain how to use them and what you should expect SEO wise. First some basic information for those new [...]

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Interesting title don’t you think No I’ve not lost the plot, all will become clear as you read. The World of Warcraft Recently I’ve become a little addicted to the Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) The World of Warcraft (WOW). My eldest son (15 years old) is to blame, he wanted to try the [...]

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A lot has been written about the Google Sandbox effect, but much of it is based on early reports of what webmasters thought was a downgrading of a site that was just beginning to do well. Many webmasters concluded from this drop that Google was giving their new sites some good rankings so other webmasters [...]

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Although I’m an SEO consultant who deals mainly with Google (it’s THE most important search engine) until watching a recent episode of the Dragon’s Den (TV program on BBC2) I’d not come across the term Google Consultant before. The Dragon’s Den is a TV program where entrepreneurs/inventors pitch their businesses to a group of successful [...]

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