NewRedBook – The Nick Garner Blog

I’ve been given a copy of Jaimie Sirovich and Cristian Darie’s new book Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP: A Developer’s Guide to SEO there are 2 parts to this : 1 the bit where I talk about the book and 2. the bit where I talk about the clever marketing they have used for [...]

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I’ve been working on this site http://www.anorak.co.uk – its my big SEO playground where i can try new ideas. The site has a PR of 6/10 and about 68,000 inbound links and about 180,000 unique visitors in the last 30 days – so not bad, but then it has been online for about 6 years [...]

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I ve been reading Aaron Wall’s SEO book (cool book by the way) as a way to remind myself of the basics. I was also reading webmasterworld and somehow i ended up here http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/pagerank.html the gist is that in real terms search engine algo’s are hardcore maths with human behavior as their driver. I am [...]

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I was asked by someone how to get their web site up the rankings…..common question by the way So in order to avoid the usual; tag this , keyword that link this and link that , I went to a far more base level… the enlightened of you will have heard of www.cluetrain.com (markets are [...]

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The old ways are NIGH!!! I’ve begun to use google mobile since I have a new orange SPV M3100 with wireless. it means I can read my rss feeds and do a bit of light web surfing at the most random of times. Anyhow – I wanted to do a keyword lookup and so I [...]

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I have been linkbuilding today. I have access to a 3rd party doner web site which has been used for advertising promotions and I have been linking and setting up permamant redirects to another site to get it ranked for certain keywords. This promo site has never been SEO optimised and has never solicited for [...]

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