Nick Garner - UK SEO / Online Marketeer

 
Luckily I get loads of spammy requests for link exchanges. Why lucky? because one of the big sites I look after is that prominent, its a magnet for link builders. 
And we got that way by having a great site, with content that is genuinely useful and then mixed it in with some ‘robust’, but sustainable [...]

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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 their pay, [...]

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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 the [...]

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13 Internet prophecies…
On the whole I do agree, although No 1 is debatable. Recently I have seen such dumbfounding SEO stupidity (which I’ve been asked to doctor) that I think as long as web developers don’t care about marketing, SEO will be vital.
#1: Onside Search Engine Optimization (SEO) will be History
#2: Searching will become more [...]

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