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    Message board Reccomendations

    vbulletin can be good for big sites, but frankly for smaller/quieter forums I find SMF is better. I used to run 20+ vbulletins, but now only a handful run vb. It's just not worth the cost and hassle of vb on small sites IMO.
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    Google Changes: For Google Profit or Better User Experience?

    No - my company was subcontracted, but later on fired the contractor for non-payment issues. The contractor then did a runner from HMRC. All good fun!
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    Google Update Their Webmaster Quality Guidelines

    Well, they used to be very grey on links. Now they are being more plain about it. Not least that almost everyone at UKBF is now in breach of Google's guidelines and should prepare for a penalty! You have been warned!! :o
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    Now Only Good Content Writers Can Make Money

    Over the past two years Google have made it plain they are far more concerned with the strength of the domain, rather than the strength of the content. That's why the biggest publishers keep republishing content from third parties, and why small publishers have been totally squeezed out of some...
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    Google Update Their Webmaster Quality Guidelines

    Interesting - Google now consider forum sigs spam. :)
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    Google Changes: For Google Profit or Better User Experience?

    With the caveat that Google and Amazon are aggressively involved in tax avoidance. The companies enjoy the benefits of trading in stable economies while contributing almost nothing to them. And every time they expand their services, they put honest hard-working tax-paying individuals out of work.
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    Do you keep your portfolio secret?

    He wrote it when he was actively managing clients, though. :)
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    A couple of general questions

    That's a clear sign of sandboxing - I'd hold back off the links for the time being.
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    SEO For Forum Site

    vbseo has long been used by a lot of vbulletin webmasters for optimising that software - not least to prevent duplicate content and links. Each software platform has different options, though.
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    Do you keep your portfolio secret?

    You really don't need to provide a portfolio. You have to remember that Google is a billion-dollar multi-national whose shareholders believe that the company can actively prevent any undue influence away from Google's own objectivity. Therefore when anyone - individual or company - starts...
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    How to choose SEO company

    You really want personal recommendations from people whose SEO is working for them, preferably on a mix of strong generics and longtail keywords, rather than longtail only. Emails and telephone calls are signs of a sales-focused company - as does ranking on Google for SEO keywords* - and often...
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    Is this a ligitimate way of doing SEO?

    It's not about what's allowed, as much as what works. However, judging by the description of this campaign, it's being done on a very basic level - which means there may be gains in the short-term, but unless they have a more serious strategy in place, long-term success is anything but assured.
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    Google to move torrent sites down the rankings

    Of course, the big kicker is that Google will exclude Google's properties from this change - not least YouTube, which of course never hosts copyright violations. :D http://www.seobook.com/copyright-spam
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    10 Ways to Kill Your Website Rankings With Links

    All you've done is put a list of Google support answers on links, and added a couple of third party references. The blog post you link to makes no attempt to explain anything about why these may be on the list, and you clearly aren't sure about how some of them may apply. So why not try and...
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    Online Marketing Manager from Talk Talk (SEO Service)

    The question to really ask is how qualified is the person leading the training, in terms of industry experience. It does sound like a weak attempt at upsell of unrelated services. However, the good news is that my SEO company can now sell you a mobile phone contract and repair your satellite...
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