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Is this a Spanking by Google or a Change in the Algorithm?

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I noticed only yesterday that my page for SEO Training had been filtered out of Google for the search term “SEO Training” but was still there for “SEO Training Course”.   It is never a good thing in my opinion when I start tipping something in the Google algorithm.
Investigating this was not as easy as it [...]

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What Does SEO Stand For?

January 2, 2010

Search Engine Optimisation can be broken out into separate definable elements – however the main aim is to get more visitors to your website, be higher in the organic results, and gain more clients and customers.
Keyword Research
It is preferable that keyword research informs the theme of the site and the content, therefore it is better [...]

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SEO in 2010

December 21, 2009

This will be my last post of 2009 on SEO.  I am currently finishing off the training material for my new SEO training course which starts on the 5th of Jan – this one is full, but there are still some places for the next training day on the 20th Jan.
These are a few of [...]

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SEO Services for Microsoft Partners

October 7, 2009

Microsoft has entered the search engine optimization field.  They have launched SEO Services for Microsoft Partners – website.  Thank you Microsoft for alerting me to their new venture into SEO in Ireland, they called this morning asking if I would like to be part of their partner network…
I thought this must be a joke so [...]

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Ban Tables and Kill Flash for Site Optimisation

February 11, 2009

Most of the websites I come across at present are SME websites, some are a few years old and some have been built as recent as last summer.  Two in particular that are causing problems have little text on the home page – one has flash, it looks great, but please you do want someone [...]

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SEO in a Recession

December 20, 2008

This was one of the keywords that some used to find my SEO blog yesterday.  Strangely enough it is not a phrase that was on the page – though I wrote a post about something similar a year ago.
Now were they asking “Is SEO in a recession?” or “SEO for my website during a recession?”
Firstly [...]

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Small Business SEO

November 21, 2008

For the past six months I have been working on a variety of small business websites and I am delighted with some of the search engine optimisation results.  Some of them have been languishing on the second or third page of the Google.ie search results.
Now after some changes, simple changes for some of them, many [...]

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Measure Traffic with Google Trends

June 21, 2008

I love Google Trends. Any time I am marketing a web site it is one of the tools I use for great information. When marketing a website one of the major questions I want answered is; what is the amount of traffic for a particular search term, and is that traffic increasing or [...]

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Your Title Tag – Your Little Piece of Gold

May 22, 2008

This post was inspired by a conversation with someone yesterday who is doing their own online marketing on their own business sites.They were asking about changing the title tag once Google had cashed the page – and changing it every time the page was cashed – well don’t – this does not help for search [...]

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Now to Getting Your First Links

February 27, 2008

Getting your first links on a new site can seem like a daunting task if you have never built any links before and getting links is often the most important part of search engine optimisation. If you have built links before this post will not be much use to you.
W3 Sites is a directory [...]

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