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“Hi Duncan I do have a question: After many years of developing my own sites and a few client sites, and, by good luck or well written content, I have had every page on every website indexed by Google. Until now. For the very first time I started a bookmarking (linking) campaign a few weeks [...]

“Hey Duncan, Glenn Twiddle here. My question is this. If you rank really well for certain keywords, and your site kind of lends itself to being suitable for a variety of niches, say you are number one on Google for ‘real estate sales training’, and you wanted to also rank for ‘hypnosis training’ or something, [...]

“I have 2 websites recently built and they are not showing up in search engines yet and I’m not sure why. I’m not so concerned with placement as just showing up (they seem to have not even been picked up yet and it has been about a month since they were published) Have any ideas [...]

Link Building Misconception 5: Buying Text Link Advertising Will Get Your Website Penalized Or Banned… I have not once seen a website banned because they purchased text link advertising. What I have seen however is a very public display of “dissatisfaction” by Google applying an “apparent penalty” to a very major company’s network of websites back [...]

Link Building Misconception 4: High Valued Google Page Ranked (PR) Links Are The Most Effective Incoming Links To Obtain… This misconception is very closely related to the previous - ”Having a Website With High Valued PR Pages Will Improve Your Search Engine Rankings”. You can read that here if you missed it. In that misconception we debunked [...]

In this article I’m going to try and provide an “idiot proof guide” to explain how Google “Page Rank” works in layman’s terms. It’s best done through an analogy so imagine that your website’s home page is a bucket. To gain and/or increase your Page Rank you need to fill up your bucket. This is done [...]

I received an email from a good friend of mine over the weekend. It contained a story that I thought all readers might find interesting. It’s about a mate of his in the same industry who had his site redesigned which structurally altered the way in which the “content” of the site was displaying to the search engines. It [...]

If you’re using WordPress as your blog marketing platform, here’s an excellent little WordPress Plugin that will help with your internal linking structure for search engine optimization. It’s called SEO Smart Links. SEO Smart Links can automatically link specific keyword terms and phrases that you define in your blog posts, pages and comments – with corresponding URL’s to the most [...]