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It’s all About the Brand for Google

by Kieran Flanagan on May 4, 2010

Last year there was the vince update where Google made an apparent shift towards favoring brands in the SERPs. Well over on searchengineland it appears Google are continuing on this path. They are now showing recommended brands for a number of high volume keywords: It’s interesting some people have noticed an impact on their traffic [...]

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Google’s Tops Search Query – Time to Panic

by Kieran Flanagan on April 20, 2010

Google recently updated GWT with more data for top search queries. This lead to a lot of SEO consultants throwing themselves off a cliff, declaring, keyword rank no longer matters. Personalised search is now rendering these stats useless.

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Link Building with Nudges from SEOMoz

by Kieran Flanagan on April 19, 2010

Good Friday session from SEOMoz on link building with nudges. It’s interesting how link building can blend into all marketing vehicles. What Rand is discussing here is good conversion practice and it’s great to see how that’s integrated into a good link building concept. I just got my copy of Nudge, now have to find [...]

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Two great reads reads this week was the Eric Enge interview with Matt Cutts and SEO & Link Building trends from Cemper.com. The interview between Eric Engine and Matt Cutts covered a lot of great points. There was some great info on duplicate content: Matt Cutts: “”That leads into the topic of duplicate content. Imagine [...]

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Google Alerts & RSS Feeds for Link Building

by Kieran Flanagan on March 30, 2010

Due to lack of time, I am going to cheat with the next couple of blog posts. This is just a shameless link to my latest blog post over at BigOak SEO on link building with Google Alerts and RSS Feeds. Feel free to check it out http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/link-building-with-google-alerts-and-rss-feeds

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Google Reader – What Does It Say About You

by Kieran Flanagan on March 13, 2010

Taking a look through your Google reader can be an interesting task, if you haven’t cleaned it out in 12 months (like myself). It can chart how far you have progressed over a given year and where your current focus is. SEO is another marketing vehicle but one that can be a lot different from [...]

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Building Links Through Adwords

by Kieran Flanagan on February 28, 2010

The following is a guest blog post: Building links to your site. We all know this is the most time consuming part of a great SEO strategy. Emailing people all the time, spreading our links through twitter, and building up relationships with other site owners takes plenty of time. And while these tactics are all [...]

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Link Research

A Month With LinkResearchTools from Cemper.com

by Kieran Flanagan on February 26, 2010

A professional link builder is nothing without his tools. Link analysis is one of the most important parts of a link builders job. The beauty of online marketing is a competitors strategy is there for the world to see, steal and improve on if you know what to look for. I love the initial process [...]

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Can Your Clients Handle The Real Truths of Link Building

by Kieran Flanagan on February 15, 2010

Whilst I was reading another excellent post from Wiep.Net on link exchange request, it got me thinking on the difficulties of educating clients as to why link building is necessary at all.  Most clients would like to live by the “Build it and they will come” motto. I remember a guy telling me this  after [...]

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Link Building for Your Business with Eric Enge

by Kieran Flanagan on February 1, 2010

Thanks to the guys over at SEO Dojo for the following video from Eric Enge on link building for your business. Nothing mind boggling but a good video. The writing content for sites in return for links is something that’s used by some of the very best companies out there (in the U.S). Difficult part [...]

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