SEO Streams

On the goodness of self-linking and why O’Reilly is wrong

Tim O’Reilly has put forth a suggestion to major content providers: Ensure that no more than 50% of the links on any page are to yourself. (Even this number may be too high.) Ensure that the...

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Link Building Methods

Links are the core of your search engine optimization campaign. Quality authority and trust-building links are tough to get. Here we outline 35 methods you can use to attract links to your website....
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1,147 DoFollow Blogs & Forums

I thought such a big update was worth a post. Pretty happy with the DoFollow search engine now - well over 1,000 blogs & forums in the index. So, get link building… Or, if you’re smart write an app to interface with the DoFollow search engine and do it all for you (: Oh….My…..

WordPress plugin search

Just a quick post: as noted on the wp-hackers mailing list 2 weeks ago: the search function for plugins on wordpress.org is a pain, it doesn't work at all. Using Google is not the easiest solution too, so I've create a Google custom search engine especially for plugins. You can find it here. It should provide [...]

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WordPress plugin search

Secret SEO Secrets That Should Remain Secret SEO Sauce

Every now and then I play with blog search to see what other people are saying in the SEO industry. Lee Odden’s big list of SEO blogs captures just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to SEO...

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Clean Up Your Contact Us Page!

Would you buy from someone you couldn t contact Most people wouldn t. It makes you wonder why so many businesses on the web hide their contact information. If you want to increase your conversions you need to stop hiding and start making it easy for your customers to reach you....
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Digg submit buttons: a good idea?

Lately I've noticed a lot of people using the Digg button in Sociable to submit my posts to Digg. While I appreciate the gesture, the chance of any of my "normal" posts making it to the front page of Digg is minimal. To make it to the front page, you currently need 200+ diggs. Getting there [...]

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Digg submit buttons: a good idea?

Paid search popular with marketers

Paid-for search advertising “dominates” online marketing, according to the Ofcom. Its report Communication Nation: UK consumers paying less but getting more found the amount spent on promoting goods and services via the internet grew to £2.8 billion last year. The watchdog reveals the amount spent on advertising through the web was greater than the total amount [...]

Bolt - The World’s Fastest Man

Bolt - the perfect name for the worlds fastest man.

What’s the point of Ebay Monster?

Someone just wrote me and asked “what’s the point of ebay monster?” - My first reaction was: DON’T YOU SEE IT? Then I realized that maybe some of you don’t. It’s all about the long tail keywords really… but let’s put this into a ROI perspective. Taking a few minutes to run Ebay Monster (lite or full) [...]