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    Marketing new website?

    Hi David, Can I challenge the first point? There is a way to kickstart a young domain - I agree with you that it can be slow initially, but one way to speed this process up would be to post a press release / news or blog on well established site (with a google Google PageRank above 5 will be...
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    SEO?!

    Hi AT700! Like other forms of advertising the amount you spend really depends on what the objectives are (sorry to be vague) - the more you spend the better the results, it's just finding the most profitable level for you. I sometimes find it helpful to describe keywords like markets: just...
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    HELP: I need advice with onsite Linking please

    Hi Ryan, It really depends on the specifics of how the site is set up. 15 Links certainly don't sound excessive and think it's unlikely you would get penalised as a link farm (it would take quite a lot of links to do this - possibly hundreds in my experience) which is why I think 15 is unlikely...
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    Are back links key to getting higher in google?

    Hi David, Yes, link building is an important element of SEO. Google are particularly not keen on people 'buying' links, even though this goes on quite a lot. You can get away with buying links so long as you do it ethically (i.e. they are good links), here are some key points to identifying...
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    SEO advice

    Hi Dan, I definitely recommend getting involved in Social Media. Each company and industry is different so what works for one business, may not work for another, here are my initial thoughts. Given the products you sell, I definitely think they will translate well to social media ... any...
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    A Few Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Business’s Blog

    Getting more of the right kind of traffic is key to ensuring the best chances of making that conversion - whether it is a new client or a sale. I believe the most important factors here are based around the first point "Content people like to share" - and the particular type of content you are...
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    Determining competitors' backlinks?

    Hi Marketoid, The Google link: functionality hasn't behaved properly for a year or two now, but there are some quite neat ways to check competitors backlinks. This is an entire industry in itself though! And it really depends on how much time and resources you want to dedicate to this...
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    Bounce Rate / Traffic since Tuesday

    Hi Nick, Can I suggest looking at Google Analytics, either by keyword (under traffic sources) or by page (under the content section) and arrange the table by bounce rate (so the highest bounce is at the top. If you then look through this, see if there is any common factor (i.e. a common page...
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    Does this help or hamper

    A year or two ago that would have worked :) nowadays Google is getting so good it may actually have a slight negative impact. In extreme cases it can actually get the domain itself blacklisted (though thankfully this is quite rare even for sites that overdo this!) Techniques that worked until...
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    .com domains -seo

    In the long term there is no difference in rankings between .com and .co.uk domains. However, google uses the top level domain along with location of the server and its ip address (as already mentioned) along with other information such as the language of the content, the country of origin of...
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    How to get firstpage in google?

    Hi Shakthi, It really depends on your target phrase (it's difficult to give definite time scales even with this information) - but even amongst competitive search phrases, the levels of competition can vary hugely. So it depends on exactly what we are talking about and also on what...
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    Hi Everyone, Just a Brief Introduction Here

    Hi Everyone, Just writing a brief introduction...my name is Roger and I joined UKBF a couple of days ago and I'm keen to get involved, make connections and share ideas. I'm a web developer and SEO specialist working for a company called Simon Antony so much of my interest here will be...
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    Paid for links

    Hi Maslins, As has already been said, Google generally doesn't like you buying backlinks, but it is a tried and tested method that has worked (and will still work!) if done with care. It all boils down to how relevant (and authoritative, as you mentioned) these links and banners are and...
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    2 questions email marketing & baclinks

    Hi Urban, I totally understand your plight, and you are definitely not alone! The truth is there are BOTH good blogs and bad blogs. Good backlinks and bad backlinks. Knowing the difference is the trick! And there are some particularly confusiing gray areas too. Good Backlinks vs Bad...
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    Whats the best way to learn SEO

    Hi Iain, A good place to start would be Google's own guidelines - it covers the basics on content, titles + meta tags, and would give you a good starting point. The rest is really best drawn from some good sources (current SEO bloggers for instance) and about keeping the rest of it up to...
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