•Martin MacDonald
You don’t really hate SEO.
Do you hate SEO? Are you sick of spam emails, web pages with text that makes no sense & huge ugly blocks of links? Well, you’re…
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•Martin MacDonald
Twitter Block Web Crawlers via Robots.txt?
[aesop_parallax img=”https://webmarketingschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/shutterstock_176194913.jpg” parallaxbg=”on” captionposition=”bottom-left” lightbox=”on” floater=”on” floaterposition=”left” floaterdirection=”up”] A small thread yesterday on HackerNews claimed that Twitter had de-indexed their entire site, using Robots.txt to block…
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•Martin MacDonald
PageRank Sculpting: Yes it does Work!
SEMpost reported this week that some googlers stated: “PageRank Sculpting still doesn’t work, which it hasn’t for over six years“ Like a lot of what rank…
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•Martin MacDonald
The Best SEO Tools – Voted for by You!
The votes have been counted, the decisions are in: Over 1,200 votes were cast, they’ve been counted & checked… I now have the pleasure to announce…
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•Patrick Hathaway
Is this really what Seth Godin meant by permission marketing?
Having been in search for the last few years, I’ve not really had much involvement in email marketing. I saw this as a massive skills gap,…
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•Martin MacDonald
#LidlSurprises & Sponsoring Trends
German discount supermarket chain Lidl is sponsoring a trend on twitter in the UK today, using the hashtag #LidlSurprises – so what could possibly go wrong?…
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•Martin MacDonald
#iCloudHack: Cloud Storage a More Likely Source
(NOTE: the article below goes for ANY remote file backup service, NOT just DropBox). For the last couple of days the internet has been awash with…
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•Martin MacDonald
Using Twitter Analytics to Boost Interaction
Edit Twitter make analytics free to everyone: That came as a bit of a shock to me, as it was already available to everyone – but…
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•Martin MacDonald
Bulk Image Link Spam Going Un-detected?
I was asked earlier whether using badges for building links is a good idea. Its certainly not a new concept, enterprising SEO’s (myself included) had used…
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•Martin MacDonald
Beginners SEO – Ignore the FUD!
Imagine it’s the first day you’ve ever studied SEO There are as many SEO blog posts as there are opinions, and as the saying goes, everyone’s…
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•Martin MacDonald
Google Removing Exact Match keywords
UPDATE: Enough people have argued that Google aren’t removing Exact Match Keywords, so I’ve put together possibly the least attractive infographic you’ll see this year:…
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•Martin MacDonald
Free SSL Certificates (for SEO?)
Google’s recent announcement that SSL certificates are a ranking factor has created a bit of a rush to get sites secured. Lets be perfectly clear…
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