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If you have found this uk seo blog, then you are probably looking for seo tips, seo help or seo advice. My aim is to keep you up to date with modern SEO practices and tips to help you get your site to the top of the search results. All of the seo tips you find on this site are 100% white hat and will I will always advise you against any black hat seo.
Keep up to date with the latest search engine optimization tips in the industry. You could also use BrightApe SEO as a resource for SEO.
Posted on February 22nd, 2011
PPC Tips
PPC can give any SEO campaign a big boost in the right direction. With the use of some PPC tips you could see a big increase in revenue, create a bigger brand and possibly help your SEO. With PPC (pay per click) you can find out which keywords give you the best conversion rate and [...]
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Posted on February 4th, 2011
Monetize Your Blog With Google Adsense
Google Adwords and Google Adsense go hand in hand with each other, a very brief introduction to how it works is : People will advertise their product or service with Google Adwords on a PPC (pay per click) program. Publishers will then post advertisements on their websites and receive a cut of the money made [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2011
The Best Robots.txt File
The robots.txt can prove a useful tool if you use it correctly. Here are some pointers on to exactly what you should include to help search engines index/ crawl your site more efficiently. Sitemap Reference When you submit your sitemap to Google webmaster tools, your sitemap will only get indexed in Google. For your sitemap [...]
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Posted on January 27th, 2011
Why Google Ignores Your Meta Tags
ODP Data If you’re lucky enough to have your site listed in DMOZ (the open directory project) then you might find that Google will take your title and description and use them on SERPs. This can be annoying if your are trying to optimize them for CTR’s. Lucky enough for you guys, you can add [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2011
5 Top SEO Tips For 2011
SEO changed massively throughout 2011. This has probably left a lot of webmasters confused to where there priorities should lie with their SEO. I thought it would be a good idea to give you my opinion on what are the top seo tips which will help improve your websites rankings. Meta Tags Let’s go back [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2011
Using Nofollow To Improve Your Internal Linking
Have you ever heard of the first link rule? This is when Google only follows the first link to a page, for example : if your page has a link to the home page in the topnav with the anchor text “home” and a link in the footer with the anchor text “your keyword”. The anchor text that appears first in your html will be followed and then the other link(s) to the page will be discarded.
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Posted on January 24th, 2011
Using A Blog To Drive Traffic To Your Website
One piece of advice I would give to get more traffic to your website is to have a regularly updated blog. By updating it regularly it will attract focussed visitors who can leave comments and get involved with your website. SEO Benefits Of Having A Blog One of the main benefits of having a regularly [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2011
Keyword Density – Does It Matter For SEO?
Back in the day you could keyword spam to get good rankings, this is certainly not the case anymore. Keyword density in my opinion is not longer a factor in Googles algorithm, I could be wrong, but my experience as an SEO tells me that you don’t get any benefit from having a keyword mentioned a certain percentage of times on a page.
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Posted on January 21st, 2011
PageRank Update 20th January 2011
At last, many webmasters have reported a PageRank update as of 20th January 2011. The last one we seen was the beginning of April 2010. We have seen easyseotips.net jump from a Pagerank 1 to a Pagerank 4. It shows that Google is taking note of my hard work. I am a little bit sceptical [...]
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