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Google Analytics Advanced Tracking

July 28, 2010

I’m pretty sure it was Don Crowther that put me onto this, but for the life of me, I can’t find the article, even though it was only a few days ago. Ah the perils of massive amounts of information! The article was about tracking actions on your site from the different promotions you do. [...]

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SEO 101: What is PageRank?

July 27, 2010

In writing my SEO 101 series, I noticed I throw around the term PageRank a lot (with good reason). Then it hit me that, as this is SEO 101, I should probably explain what that is PageRank was coined by the founders of Google to describe the algorythm they use to… well… rank pages. PageRank [...]

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SEO 101: Overcome Green Bar Addiction

July 22, 2010

I was recently surprised to find out that people still pay a lot of attention to the “green bar” – you know, the PageRank indicator on the Google toolbar. This person was worried that they were doing a whole lot of linking, but their green bar showed they were a PageRank Zero. Just don’t worry [...]

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SEO 101: Google Sitesearch: What Pages Are Indexed?

July 16, 2010

Having spoken with quite a few people who are struggling with the basics of SEO, I figured I’d do a series for the people who might find it useful. This series won’t be in any particular teaching order, I’ll just write them as I think of them, or as people ask questions. Jump in at [...]

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Google Page Rank Update

May 2, 2008

Google has been fairly sloppy in updating its Page Rank in the last two years or so, leading many to believe the Page Rank bar (that little green bar that you’d see if Google Toolbar was enabled) was broken. It seems that they have now updated the PR bar again after only two months. If [...]

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SandBoxed!

November 10, 2006

Interesting fact – my Mike, Russ and Monty site has been sandboxed by Google. It has gone through the honeymoon period, but I did something wrong and Google doesn’t like me at the moment My thought is that I either (or all) was too aggressive too soon in getting links, or I was inconsistent with [...]

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The Benefits of Search Engines Coming Frequently to Your Site

November 3, 2006

I saw a post on a forum recently asking about search engine spidering frequency. It seems there is a common misconception that the more frequently a search engine spiders your site, the more popular your site must be. This is not technically the case. In fact, the reverse is true: if your site is popular, [...]

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Blog Strategy to Get Faster Ranking on the Search Engines

October 31, 2006

I was at a restaurant with a few mates and we were discussing how difficult it would be to rank #1 for certain phrases and how long it would take. To cut a long story short, I bet $50 that I could get to #1 within 4 weeks for some random phrase we decided on. [...]

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