Recent content by Normansmith

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    Manufacturing - Sales & Marketing

    In a previous life i bought large quantities of injection mouldings, grit bins,motorway marker posts etc. I would always search the internet, nobody or very few look in hardback business directories, or even the online equivalent. Most big companies have approved vendor lists, so you need to be...
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    Unnatural Backlinks

    This all depends on a number of things; how many back links are pointing to your website, what percentage is your anchor text split, what is the average in your sector, are you within this average. Are any websites pointing to you that have been penalised, is your website hosted in a good...
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    Internal 301 Re-directs

    When has logic or common sense entered Google's thought processes ? :eek: Just sending everybody around in circles again.
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    Internal 301 Re-directs

    You might want to watch this : :cool: On May 21 John Mueller from Google confirmed that from now on Google will treat 301 internal redirects in a different way: Google will treat 301 redirects that redirect to a home page as a 404 error page (http://www.youtube.com/embed/WsDeu5PUx2A).
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    Marketing Before Product Launch

    How about the owner listed sales sites, Preloved, Gumtree, Craigslist and Vivastreet these are listed by owners, usually to cut out the estate agents commissions. See if they would be interested in a listing ? not upsetting anybody if you try that !
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    Replacement windows

    Try these: Might answer your questions :eek: ukbifold.co.uk aluminiumwindows.co.uk
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    1st attempt at SEO - My 'done' checklist

    If you are happy then that's ok, but think about it from the visitors view ! Your title tags are in position, but have you done the keyword research to back up the selection you have made? assuming your are targeting organic searches and not using adwords or FB ads. Are people actually looking...
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    Facebook Post Promotion - Opinions

    Yes i have used this type of promotion and it does let more people see your post.On Facebook day and time of posting changes the success of your posts/offers. With these low cost promotion you can try and see if it works for your offer, but it still down to the quality and the offer. It...
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    SEO courses

    Look at the advert in the right column ------------->>>>>>> Tin, a member on here :) or go direct http://www.tinsoldierdesign.co.uk/
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    Backlinks

    :eek: Guest posts only on good high trust blogs, why would a blog owner, with a higher ranked website than yours, let you put a blog post with a link, that could affect his ranking ? - Don't think so ! Have article sites in "general" been devalued - YES Paid links ! against Google T&C ever...
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    Interflora - returned to SERPs

    If you saw any Youtube video's in past 2 weeks they were all promoting Interflora So Google got their revenue :eek:
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    Good Links, Bad Links

    Change Good to "Quality" it's now all down to trust. A good link can be linked to by some bad links and you can get the grief. A "bad" link can be an seo smokescreen :eek: So without discussing paid, no follow, follow etc just think quality.
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    Backlinks

    You might want to look at your Freeindex and Twitter feed to your website, not displaying correctly. Also as a general rule on page seo needs to be first, before you start the off page work ;)
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    Good Links, Bad Links

    The answer is 3. something else :eek:
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    Facebook Advertising

    I am not going to duplicate what has already been said, we have run and are still running ads on Facebook for a number of clients. You do need to target them with the geo options, but even more than that the secret ,if there is one - know the best day, time zone, of customers and frequency ;)...