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Google Search Quality team being transparent

admin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:21:21 +0000

I must say that I have been hugely encouraged by Google’s drive towards a more open communication with the Webmaster community recently. Their monthly search quality briefings and their decision to start encouraging users in Webmaster Central to set up email alerts are really helpful. In fact – so is the whole “Inside Search Quality” blog. [...]

by Dixon Jones

Google Search Quality team being transparent

Ten Link building tests you can try in a single post.

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:15:49 +0000

Last month, Google said they changed “something” to do with links. To be exact, they “switched something off”. Now – I’m pretty confident that the changes just around the corner will be hugely more significant, but in the meantime I thought I would do a post that shows you several ways to test theories about [...]

by Dixon Jones

Ten Link building tests you can try in a single post.

Some stuff about Google’s Crawler

admin — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 10:04:06 +0000

How Google crawls and retrieves data from the web. Some common SEO issues that arise. From Googler's mouth.

by Dixon Jones

Some stuff about Google’s Crawler

Link Building and SEO Capacity

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:44:09 +0000

It’s Christmas and as this blog has zero adverts and pretty much no money making schemes, I hope it’s OK to plug the services of my own consultancy. We grew a fair bit in 2011 and now have about 20 people at the SEO Consultancy that I founded back in 1999. Amongst them we have [...]

by Dixon Jones

Link Building and SEO Capacity

How to get your page recrawled

admin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:20:54 +0000

This on e is for googlebot, Please go and recrawl the Receptional Daily so your index doen’t look in your SERPS as if it was last updated on the 6th of August. Our CTO will be most grateful. Fpr eveyone who is not a bot… one way to get your page recrawled when you don’t [...]

by Dixon Jones

How to get your page recrawled

Yahoo Site Explorer Alternatives

admin — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:31:08 +0000

Yahoo Site Explorer is going offline. Here is a list of the main Yahoo site explorer alternatives. There are a few to choose from with different strengths and weaknesses.

by Dixon Jones

Yahoo Site Explorer Alternatives

Soho vs Enterprise SEO

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:37:17 +0000

It used to be absolute chalk and cheese! But now many of the factors affecting small businesses need the skillset of an Enterprise SEO company. That’s because even the smallest of companies are now using a CMS to build and manage their site. I don’t know the last time I saw one designed and built [...]

by Dixon Jones

Soho vs Enterprise SEO

Search Technology Tools

admin — Mon, 30 May 2011 15:30:17 +0000

On Friday I was in Hannover, where SEMSEO asked me to talk about Search Technology Tools – and in particular of course, my favourite tool, Majestic Site Explorer. I didn’t talk much about my own SEO tools page, but did look at the problems involved when Searh technology has to work at real scale. Here [...]

by Dixon Jones

Search Technology Tools

Protected: Panda Analysis

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:44:34 +0000

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by Dixon Jones

Protected: Panda Analysis

How many links will I need to rank for…

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:06:19 +0000

One of the most frequently asked questions from prosepctive clients is pretty much impossible to answer. "How many links do I need"? It's true... I can't tell you. But I do at least have a methodology for staring to give an answer to this question - with the help of our newest recruit, James Hare.

by Dixon Jones

How many links will I need to rank for…