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What is the Minimum Budget for Real SEO Results?

The decision to seek professional help with Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a very positive step towards increasing your web site’s success. But how much should you expect to spend to get REAL results from your SEO effort? What does a professional SEO consultant expect to be paid? The first thing clients of SEO services
  • 8 Feb, 2012
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How Much Homepage Content is Too Much for SEO?

In the video above Google’s Matt Cutts outlines what the search engine robots (Google calls theirs ‘Googlebot’) are looking for in terms of the amount of text content your homepage should contain, broadly speaking. Matt’s key points are: Don’t make your page too big, it needs to be downloadable in a reasonable amount of time.
  • 9 Jun, 2011
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Did Search Optimisation Start In Phone Books?

These days phone books are considered a bit of a laughing stock by younger generations and the internet savvy. The thought of keeping one or two lumps of paper (depending on where you live) as your reference for finding phone numbers or businesses seems ridiculous to most of us. But was the idea of search
  • 27 May, 2011
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Is Your Web Site Duplicating Content?

We all know that duplicate content is counter productive to any search engine optimisation strategy. With this knowledge in mind we need to be careful not to copy or reproduce material already available on other web sites but could we be doing this accidentally? Before we go any further be aware that when I discuss
  • 24 May, 2011
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How Blog Post Comments Affect SEO

Many bloggers are aware of what Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is to some extent. Depending on their knowledge, or at least what they think is the right thing to do, they attempt to make changes to their post content to give it the best chance of ranking highly in search results. But blogs introduce their
  • 18 May, 2011
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Are Web Directories Useful For SEO?

Once upon a time there was place for web site directories. Google didn’t exist so one of the best ways to help people find you was to get your link listed in the popular web directories. But those days are long over yet many Search Engine Opimisation (SEO) practitioners still advocate using directories in the
  • 11 May, 2011
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The Risks of Using Link Building Services

People involved in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) have for a long time known about the benefits of having links from other web sites pointing at the web site they are trying to promote. In trying to increase the number of inbound links however some SEO providers go too far. Either accidentally or by design. So
  • 20 Apr, 2011
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