NewRedBook – The Nick Garner Blog

Caffeine is a new update from google and unlike the bluster of the Bing merger with yahoo, this is the first emergence of something that will probably change the world – and I don’t think im exaggerating…it will level the SEO playing field and let sites that have genuine merit rise up the rankings, overshooting [...]

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I was asked about an SEO company who was bullying one of my friends in the social media space and this was my response (partially edited) : What a load of !*!^£*$£!!!!. They are just trying to make you feel insecure. The most important part of SEO is linkbuilding and the main thing agencies fall [...]

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I missed Kevin Ryan in the SEO rehab session, (see Shoemoney article on him)?  but I did see him at the keynote and I felt he missed the mood of the panel and he behaved like the suit he wore. Its like he was on television, not at a geek fest. If Danny had moderated, [...]

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SMX advanced give it up session (recap here) So you know , this is where a selected panel ‘out’ themselves on the best seo tricks they can come up with that they dare to give away. Interestingly there is a blogging blackout for 1 month. Then we can go ahead and talk about it all. [...]

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New UK Law Criminalizes Stealth Marketing Techniques (SEOMoz) Interesting one if you’re in Europe / UK.?  In essence its a loosely worded (as applied to online marketing) piece of European legislation that prohibits misrepresentation by law Misrepresentation for us online marketing types is for instance where we say something good about a company, whilst in [...]

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Whilst at SMX Advanced there was a bit of a noise about black hat SEO having too much prominence. Since I was lucky enough to be there, I am adding my tuppence to this one. There is a prevailing sense that Google is really getting it’s index un-spammed for the big money phrases. Apart form [...]

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