Category Archives: seo

Is Google Throwing Out Billions Of Pages?

I always liked that little “number of pages indexed” at the bottom of the Google homepage… back in the days when they were competing with Inktomi (now Yahoo) and Altavista (now, err, part of Overture, which is part of Yahoo) … Continue reading

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Want More Traffic? Increase Your Trulevance!

No, I haven’t gone mad. If you want more traffic, increase your Trulevance. I bet you want to know what Trulevance is now, right? OK, I’ll spill the beans… Trulevance is a contraction of Trust and Relevance. Let’s break that … Continue reading

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For Christmas I’d Like… Simple SEO!

What do you think… would you like to know the basics of SEO… I mean the TRUE basics and not the “guru fluff” that people with zero knowledge of SEO pass off as “the hidden truth”? I’d like to get … Continue reading

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Oh C’mon. Is that Really SEO?

I was referred to a website selling “how to do SEO” information. They claim that they get great search engine rankings… OK, fine. But on their sales letter they show a screen-capture from Google for the search construction auditing firm … Continue reading

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Creating Fat Content by Dr Andy Williams of EzSeoNews

When I got back from a family vacation in sunny Cornwall, I found an email in my inbox saying that the introductory discount for Andy William’s “Creating Fat Content” course has expired. Dang! I’d meant to mention that course, but … Continue reading

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More about Google’s supplemental index

I think I’ll make a category for posts about Google’s “supplemental index” as I seem to be a bit fixated on it. I was just meandering around the web and found this at Matt Cutts blog . It’s from Jan … Continue reading

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Brain Meltdown

I’m working on a new, top-secret project at the moment. Don’t worry, it isn’t a “big box” I’m going to sell at $1997! In fact, I don’t know if a product will come out of this project at all. I … Continue reading

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Advice from Michael Campbell…

When Michael gives advice, it’s wise to listen. For all those people who have bought templates, from any source, it’s an important message… “Modify Your Templates or Suffer the Consequences” It’s not exactly ambiguous, is it? The message is quite clear… … Continue reading

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Blog gets multiple top search engine rankings

One of the reason for starting this blog was to rank highly for my own name in the search engines, so people could find me easily. I accomplished that, and wrote a post about it. One of the happy spin-offs … Continue reading

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Neil Shearing search results…

It looks like we made it. If you search Google for “Neil Shearing” with or without quotes this blog appears as the number one listing. (at least, it does for me, as I type this. With regional variations and the … Continue reading

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