Exact Match Domains are they still working well after the ‘Panda’ Update? Well I set off to find out at the beginning of this month and I suggest you go and read the first part of the casestudy to get the importance of EMD’s, why we should or have been using them and how I [...]
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I touched upon the importance of Domain Authority and TLD unimportance before and thought hey lets have a crack at Exact Match Domains (EMD’s). Now i’m not going to rehash what EMD’s are, why they are great and ‘oh so powerful’ as its been done loads of times. Cliff notes version: EMD’s Target ONE primary [...]
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Now back in 2005 or so one key way to ‘retain’ link juice to your site or ‘money pages’ was to no follow any external links and in essence sculpt it to the essential pages. However in mid-2009 Google said ‘wait a min, that wont work now, nofollow means = link juice is just wasted’. [...]
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If you have had a look at my Resource page you will see two Plugins I recommend are SEO Super Comments and the new SEO Plugin by Yoast. Upon activating and tinkering with the settings in Yoast’s plugin; I was happy with my final outcome (settings wise) and went ahead and deleted a few plugins. [...]
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As I’ve mentioned before in my previous article ‘How to get the best links‘ The best type of link is IN ARTICLE links. So Comment, Directory and Social Bookmark links are not as ‘valuable’ as these. Now don’t get me wrong i’m not saying those are worthless but not as ‘worthwhile’. How to get in [...]
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Niches come in as many flavours as Ben and Jerrys ice-cream. Macro/Micro/Super Micro Niches even all require good research for you to find that traffic and ultimately sales driving traffic. Picking the right keyword Picking the niche Now normally we pick a ‘theme’ keyword before we actually pick a niche keyword. A example of a [...]
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A few weeks ago I stumbled across some interesting spam; it was generic enough to make me think hmm is this spam or a real comment? so going on the more altruistic side I thought sure i’ll accept it but i’ll edit out the url just in case. The logic being if it was a [...]
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