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Why visitors come first in SEO

Why Visitors Come First in SEO
SEO isn’t a blinkered process. Or at least it certainly shouldn’t be. There’s no textbook answer for every problem. You can’t just optimise a site based on your assumed words and phrases either. A website is there to appeal to targeted visitors; therefore, it isn’t too much of a stretch [...]

MobilePhones.co.uk sells for £91,500

MobilesPhones.co.uk just sold on auction on Sedo minutes ago, finishing at £91,500. You can see the bid history here.
It will be interesting to see what site (if any) appears on this in the coming weeks. I think this would have been an excellent buy for one of the mid level players. Not one of the [...]

5 Must Have Tools for the SEO Pro

It takes a big brain to reach search engine optimization success. In order to feed the endless appetite’s of most search engines, SEO-ers must be constantly aware of changing trends, new regulations and helpful tools for their operations. There’s no time to celebrate when a web marketer positions a link for Google to [...]

Using multiple anchor texts for one page

In the world of SEO we all know that Link building is the key feature in getting trust and increasing positions in Google.  Using the same anchor text shows to Google that the links we have built to a page require a certain level of power to [...]

Help charity and get a free pr8 backlink

This is one of those few win-win situations in search engine optimisation
You can get yourself a highly trusted link from a site with a pagerank 8 homepage for absolutely no cost – and you get to support a charity whilst doing it.
Sounds good? Well all you need to do is head over to [...]

SearchEngineOptimisation.org for sale

We are currently looking to sell the Searchengineoptimisation.org business.
If you are interested in getting more details, please fill in the contact form below.

American Spelling Issues, Part 2

Well I guess this one is a little less dramatic than having our Google.co.uk search results forced into American spellings. (Hobo Web post on that here, Online Sales rant here and our post on when they rolled it back).
We decided to list our site on business.com (listing page here). Seems they have ever so helpfully [...]

BBC allowing spammers to run wild

I’ve been getting more and more annoyed about this, and figured the best way to do something about it would be to get the word out there, get people talking about it and hopefully this will change.
The BBC currently seem happy to let spammers over run their blogs, and will happily give them dofollow links [...]

Online Backup for Wordpress Sites

Backup-Technology.com have released a free plugin for backing up Wordpress sites online.
There is really no excuse for not keeping proper backups of your site – relying on your host to be carrying out suitable backups is not a solution either.
This plugin gives you 50mb of free space – more than enough for the average blog.  [...]

Poker.org sold for $1m

In a record breaking sale for .org domains, poker.org has been sold by Sedo to Pokercompany.com, who are a big player in the affiliate market for online gambling.
The largest previous sale for a .org domain was engineering.org for $198,000 (and is currently 301′ing to what could be called a low value .info domain!)
It will be [...]