Category Archives: seo

Google Killing Keyword Tracking

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Neil_Shearing

If you’ve ever done “keyword research” for your websites, you know it’s a minefield. Unless you have a Ph.D. in keywordology, you’ll quickly be bamboozled by comparing ”visitor volume”, “seasonal trends”, “exact versus phrase match” and all the other related variables that … Continue reading →

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Google Bowling Update… All Sites At Risk?

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Neil_Shearing

This is an update to the widely-read post, “Google Breaks Its Own Golden Rule” which you may want to read first to get up to speed. I’ve tested this myself with new sites… when I built them using only unique, … Continue reading →

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How To Get 12 Links From Google

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Neil_Shearing

The goal of SEO is to get to the top of the search engine results pages (SERPs) for any specific keyword phrase. As Google accounts for the lion’s share of the market (about 65% at the moment), most efforts are … Continue reading →

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Google Creates Author Confusion

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Neil_Shearing

Google has started to support the “author” markup tag so that when you create a link, you can tell Google that you’re the author of the content you’re linking from. We now support markup that enables websites to publicly link … Continue reading →

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Blogging Underground Review

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Neil_Shearing

I’ve just completed a video review of Blogging Underground by Mike Liebner. In the video I make a few points that I want to expand on… When you use Blogging Underground you get to create links inside blog posts and … Continue reading →

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Google Breaks Its Own Golden Rule

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Neil_Shearing

[Update: I've managed to get a FREE copy of Dr Andy's excellent guide to creating affiliate websites that Google loves. Just click here to download it. No squeeze page, just open the zip file and enjoy the 155-page PDF!] I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Google Changes SEO Game

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Neil_Shearing

SEO Changes For Local Searches Have you noticed a drop in Google organic SEO traffic for any “local” search phrases, for example, “holiday cottage cornwall”? Most likely, if you run any sites that got traffic from “local” search, you have. It’s been … Continue reading →

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Do Link Wheels Work? (SEO)

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Neil_Shearing

Over at associateprograms.com, there’s a discussion about linkwheels, so I thought I’d add my two pence. What’s a link wheel? Well, traditionally a linkwheel is when you take multiple pages on Web 2.0 properties and link them back to your … Continue reading →

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Web Content Studio

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Neil_Shearing

I’ve just been running a few of my articles through Web Content Studio. It’s a very cool piece of software. I’ve already written a review of it, so don’t want to go over the same ground again. Just check out … Continue reading →

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Michael Campbell’s SEO Mistakes

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Neil_Shearing

It seems that Michael Campbell has started a new series of free videos on SEO advice. In the first one he talks about the importance of the title tag for SEO ranking and clickthrough rates. As you’d expect from Michael, … Continue reading →

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