•Martin MacDonald
Negative SEO vs. MattCutts.com
Negative SEO has been a hot topic for a number of years now, and we all know the typical routes to demoting your competition: 1) buy…
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•Martin MacDonald
Webmasters on the Roof @ SMX Munich
Webmasters on the Roof is one of the longest running online radio shows, now in its seventh year. SMX Munich hosts special editions of the show,…
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•Martin MacDonald
Why Im quitting SEO
The following is a true story, however names and places have been changed to protect people’s identities: Last week I was sat in a meeting in…
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•Martin MacDonald
Digg banned from Google?
Something interesting has just come across one of my networks (hat tip to datadial), just a few days after Digg have announced that they are building…
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•Martin MacDonald
Banks Offer Spamming Advice
SEO is an interesting game, we know how big brands (like Interflora) sometimes get it totally wrong and buy links resulting in google penalties – and…
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•Martin MacDonald
Interflora SEO Penalty Analysis 2013
Yesterday evening, well known florist brand Interflora was wiped off the face of the internet. Well, in search marketing terms anyway… Searching for the terms [Flowers],…
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•Martin MacDonald
WTF is Inbound Marketing Anyway?
This post started out as a tweet, then a comment on inbound.org, but neither really allowed me to vent enough so its ended up here on…
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•Martin MacDonald
Why EMD’s should stay
Yet again parts of our industry are under fire from algorithmic changes at Google. The focus right now are Exact Match Domain’s (EMD), something that us…
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•Martin MacDonald
Twitjack 100,000 followers!
Hey folks, a bit of a quick and dirty post here, very little prep has gone into this, and the whole point is that I have…
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•Martin MacDonald
The Curious Case of Camper Shoes
I stumbled on this less than 20 minutes ago across a twitter conversation concerning rankings for the keyword term “camper men shoes“. Its hardly a big…
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•Martin MacDonald
Got a Social Media Strategy? the BBC do….
Every now and then, someone uncovers something nice and shiny. This time its Gianluca Fiorelli over at inbound.org – who has published the URL of the BBC…
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•Martin MacDonald
Blackhat vs Whitehat presentations
What do you prefer hearing at conferences? When I talk about “edgy” stuff (yes, blackhat), the presentation is far better received by the audience. On the…
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