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If you’re not interested in SEO, page rank or your website’s position in Google then this article won’t interest you at all, however as most business website owners are all a little preoccupied with Google positioning I would guessed this would tweak your interest. To the absolute horror of SEO experts around the world, Google [...]

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Over the last month we’ve posted a couple of times about an article by Matt Cutts. Firstly, Sarah refreshed and posted on the golden nuggets Matt gave us in a news article a while back. Later it struck me how little things have changed and I mused about the similarity of advice given then and [...]

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A couple of weeks ago Sarah posted an article about an old interview that Matt Cutts gave to USA today about search engine optimisation. In her post she highlighted the article as a great layman’s guide to SEO. It only struck me later that an interview about the ever changing world of SEO was just [...]

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A bit under three years ago Matt Cutts gave an interview to USA Today. I saw the article shortly after it was first published and it did strike me as a really good layman’s introduction to search engine optimisation (SEO). It also hammered home that giving Google interesting unique content that is relevant to your [...]

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Is your website getting searched as well as it should be? Almost everyone is familiar with the term SEO and if you’re not it simply stands for ‘Search Engine Optimization’. The very basics of SEO and organic (or natural) listings are inexpensive and most website design and development companies should implement as standard but if [...]

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Other blogs might give you a list of five important search engine optimisation factors or seven SEO mistakes. Some may even have ten things to remember when selecting your top search keywords. Well, I’m going to boil it down into one simple vital SEO fact. To me, this is the essence of SEO Google only [...]

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Ok so we all know about online marketing, SEO, SEF, keywords, Meta data and numerous other acronyms that if you are anything like me drive me totally insane, but are we (that being the royal we) taking full advantage of the tools and platforms that we have readily available to us already. Long gone are [...]

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Copywriters are talented people don’t get me wrong, but writing copy for the web is different than writing copy for print and using copy in your web page that has been design specifically for print could spell disaster for your online effectiveness. In the cyber world it may seem like the programmers and designers have [...]

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We all know that Google is a search engine but not everyone knows that Google as a corporation has not only shown the world the power of brand, product and service but also offers us some of the most powerful tools in the web marketplace – for free. It was a stunning stroke of genius [...]

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Setting up an account is simple, but if you are still having a few problems then here are some pointers to help you on your way: Open a Browser of your choice and go to web address https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount Fill in the details, accept the terms and conditions and create your new account. Google will send [...]

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