Duplicate Content – Eliminate it & Profit From Thin Air

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Duplicate Content Case Study In this article, I’ll explain how to make profit from thin air by eliminating duplicate content from your website. No, this is not some shady ‘get-rich-quick scheme’ full of hollow promises. This is a real example of how the identification, diagnosis and elimination of duplicate content became the biggest single contributory [...]

When To Start SEO

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New Websites and Website Upgrades Ok, so your new website is finished and has been launched, so now it’s time to think about SEO, right? After all, SEO is just about (a) including your keywords on your website pages and (b) acquiring back links to improve your rankings and generate referrals. If you need to [...]

Meta Description Tags – Your Free Ad Copy

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Meta description tags – the why, where and what. If you’re an SEO specialist, you’ll want to skip this post. This is aimed at small business owners, marketing managers and the plethora of web designers that offer SEO friendly websites – but … er … don’t. The meta description tag is another very simple yet [...]

How to Do Terrible SEO

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13 Lucky Steps to Search Engine Oblivion. I first wrote this a couple of years back (so please note that some details may be out of date) for fun and published it on eHow.com, EzineArticles.com and also AssociatedContent.com (now owned by Yahoo) but since I have now incorporated a blog into this site, I have [...]

Flash Home Pages Can Thwart SEO

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Does Your Site Have An All Flash Home Page? Are you a lover of Flash programming? Is your home page dedicated entirely to a Flash movie? If so, did you know that this presents problems to search engines since they cannot read the images? Whilst it is true that search engines have improved their interpretation [...]

Home Page Title Tag Can Be a Dead Giveaway

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Does Your Home Page Title Tag Indicate an Absence of SEO? Nearly every business owner or marketing manager I speak to relates stories of being repeatedly contacted by SEO companies promising to get them to the top of Google. These companies are usually sending out thousands of emails without making any attempt to assess whether [...]

Meta Keywords Tags Are Irrelevant – The Final Word

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Most people in the SEO world have known for a long time that Google does not factor the contents of meta keywords tags into their search ranking algorithm. This fact has been officially announced by Google’s Matt Cutts. In this YouTube video, Matt also talks about the potential usefulness of meta description tags which I’ll [...]

Keyword Domain Names or Brand Domain Names?

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Which domain name to choose for your website is a complex decision so how do you make it and what factors are there to consider? One of the biggest decisions is whether to go for a keyword-rich domain name or brand domain name. Well, there are advantages to both so inevitably there are trade-offs to [...]