Conversion Matters

So I was still unsure what the deal was with relative vs. absolute links from a search perspective so I’ve decided to dig around a little deeper for some answers.

(more…)

Lot’s of people blindly throw statements around such as:

• “digg is a great way to promote your site”
• “get free blog traffic from digg”
• “increase your brand exposure on social news sites”

While hitting it big on one of these sites is a great way to gain links, traffic and exposure, what these people neglect to tell you is that it is very tricky to do so.

Writing great content is unfortunately not all it takes - it’s a little like the old saying “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”.

(more…)

A new service has been launched called blogrush. It’s a system aimed to increase blog exposure and traffic for bloggers. You can see it in action in my sidebar over there ->.

(more…)

So, I just took the SEOmoz SEO quiz (see the previous post) and one of the questions I got wrong was to do with absolute/relative links.

I think the question was along the lines of:

Why is it better to use absolute links (http://www.domain.com/page.php) rather than relative links (/page.php) when doing cross site linking?

(more…)

Check it out, I’m an SEO Master!

SEO Master - 82%

Are you an SEO Expert?

Go try the test yourself, it’s good for wasting 20 minutes!

SEOmoz’s SEO Expert Quiz

I recently came across a blog about making money online by a guy named Angel.

I’d came across a post discussing the recent slapping Google seem to have given directories and I left a comment with my thoughts, I also said I wasn’t so keen on his navbar or post titles and here is why.

(more…)

Well now that I’m a full time slacker I have to act like one as well. So earlier today, when I finally got up actually I think I was still in bed (the joys of laptops!), after stumbling around the internet a bit I ended up at the easyPizza website.

This seemed an ideal solution to the lack of food in the flat and my lack of motivation to get up. The following are my thoughts on the experience.

(more…)

No nofollow / do-follow is a movement with the aim of eradicating no-follow on blog comments. Their motto is:

“Fight spam. Not blogs.”

It is important for new bloggers to join this movement in order to encourage reader participation.

(more…)

Imagine this, you invest heavily in branding, marketing and search engine optimisation, only to have your primary domain name ‘given away’ by a court.

While this may sound like an unlikely horror story it has in fact happened to online gaming company Bodog. I saw this story on Daven’s blog - it caught my eye because I used to play a fair bit of online poker and bodog had seemed like one of the slicker poker sites.

(more…)

Here’s a bunch of interesting articles etc. that I’ve finally managed to catch up on after my holiday/Reading Festival.

A video about paid links with Rand Fishkin and Michael Gray:

(more…)