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Compare Bing & Google Rankings | Bing SEO Month

With the merger of Yahoo & Bing as far as search results are concerned (Bing will provide Yahoo with it’s search results in futue), I think it’s time I took Bing SEO more seriously. So in September I’m going to examine the differences and similarities of the two primary search engines, Google and Bing, with a focus on Bing SEO.

So it’s a farewell to ranking no1 on…

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Quick Observation About Google, Google Alerts, Bit.ly & Twitter Links

Google Alerts, which you can use to alert you if Google finds a mention of your brand name or site, picked out this page (in an alert) for ‘Hobo+Google’ – (WARNING – I edited profanity from the images):

0f653 tweet Quick Observation About Google, Google Alerts, Bit.ly & Twitter Links

you can see the original tweet if you click the image….)

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….at first I just put it down to another mad result from very quirky Google Alerts, but

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Quick Observation About Google, Google Alerts & Twitter Links

Google Alerts, which you can use to alert you if Google finds a mention of your brand name or site, picked out this page (in an alert) for ‘Hobo+Google’ – (WARNING – I edited profanity from the images):

83024 tweet Quick Observation About Google, Google Alerts & Twitter Links

you can see the original tweet if you click the image….)

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….at first I just put it down to another mad result from very quirky Google Alerts, but

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Getting To Number 1 In Google & Staying There

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Replacing something that’s genuine, aged and valuable with something similar but ultimately a poor copy of what is already availalbe is not without it’s perils.

There’s plenty of stories out there –  if you try and force Google’s hand where it is ranking sites, Google might very well have a surprise in store for you.

Surprise

I think Google likes the status quo – so much it…

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Google Sandbox? Or Do You Just Have The Wrong Type Of Site To Compete In Organic Results?

Overcrowded

I am a corporate seo and link builder – I am far from what I would call an expert in affiliate websites. This post is about what I think I have observed making the transition from corporate seo (my livelihood) to affiliate seo (my beer money).

When I started playing about with affiliate websites last year after getting some inspiration at THINK VISIBILITY (which I am going…

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New Twitter Tweet Button (Conveniently Without Nofollow Attribute)

The new official easy to install Twitter button is out for your site – Search Engine People have a pretty solid tutorial on how to install it.I added the new Tweet Button immediately (you will see it on this and other posts).

I was immediately struck by the fact that their new Twitter button conveniently shipped WITHOUT the nofollow attribute, meaning they just bagged themselves…

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Blog – Subdomain or Subfolder? Which Is Best?

Someone emailed me and asked me this. So I mentioned I would blog it.

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Would I host a Blog on sub-domain or a sub-folder on the main site?

For me, like a lot to do with seo, it would depend on what I had to start off with:

  • Sub-domain – If I have a large site with a lot of domain authority, like a powerful

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Will Bad SEO Kill The Love Affair Google Has With Newspaper Websites?

Newspaper SEO

I’ve long thought it quite funny the situation between the mainstream media v Google.

Some media sites say it’s all one sided and Google are stealing their content, are putting up pay-walls, even when seo have been saying for years about how Google is falling over themselves giving them tons of trust, tons of traffic AND making their links some of the most valuable on the web.…

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Brands Are How You Sort Out The Cesspool

Big Brands

“Brands are the solution, not the problem,” Mr. Schmidt said. “Brands are how you sort out the cesspool.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said this. Reading between the lines, I’ve long thought this is better seo advice than most of the stuff MC video blogs these days.

If you are a brand!

Open up your site. Sell stuff on it. Got a PR7 or PR8 site?…

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Pro Directory Submission Service Review

This directory submission software & service (Directory Maximizer (AFF) ) is pretty cool. I’m curently testing it out on a few of my own sites and so far so good. 14$ per 100 directory submissions can’t be bad.

Directory Maximizer

You add and control multiple site descripions and you have a team of directory linkbuilders actually manually submit your site to 100s of directories.

Adding Your Site

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