Recent content by longterm

PR, DA and PA are calculated purely from links and will not go up due to removing links. (Apart from PR if you have a specific PR penalty which you can get removed). So if you want to increase those numbers, you just need more links from pages with PR, DA and PA. But, this is only useful if...

I'd say that MajesticSEO still has the biggest database, but it's split between their 'historical' and 'fresh' indices and much of the historical index is out of date. If you have the ability to re-check and process the results yourself then Majestic is still ahead of AHREFs IMO. Their new...

Get on a plane before midnight tomorrow. Check the rules on how many days you can be in the UK, visit relatives, work, etc. and wave goodbye. :-)

If you're on Windows, Feed Demon is really good. If you group the blogs into folders then it's easy to scan the titles in that folder and decide what to read.

As TropicalSun says you need to remove bad links, not just disavow. Then you can disavow the smaller % of links that couldn't be removed. Usually with Penguin and manual actions it's the auditing that isn't good enough to get back in. You should not be looking to keep all the links that you...

I think the $10k is a red herring in the short term. You only need to make $2 a day from the $200 (assuming prison food isn't very expensive). You probably don't need to touch the $200, but you do need to work to your strengths. If you've run a successful ISP, what were your roles? You could...

The typical set up is that you have an AdWords account for your site and you give them access to it. That way you can run reports and if you stop using that PPC manager you can take your account performance and quality score with you. Alternatively if they're running their AdWords account and...

While doing Penguin/manual action audits I've seen cases where the SEO should have been sued/jailed/whatever. ;-) Seriously thought, if an SEO was acting negligently or in bad faith, I think that would be something to discuss with a qualified lawyer in the relevant jurisdiction(s). If you...

There's always a context to this kind of thing. If you have thin sites and link them to other sites for SEO purposes then there's no 'right' way to do it. You're not obeying a 'how to spam' policy by Google; you're just trying not to get caught. Cross linking of Web sites has been a problem...

Hi jr D.I.P you are not alone; most people hit by Penguin don't recover quickly. What criteria did you use for selecting URLs to remove or disavow? People have very different rules for selecting bad links. QParker are you sure it was Penguin? Those are some of the things you should do for...

Do you know what kind of SEO consultant you are? A bit of keyword research, fix up their Web pages, throw in a few links? Or are you good at doing the strategy documents, helping the client to understand what they're doing, making the simple stuff look good? If you're more like the former...

Hi I'm longterm. I've been into SEO for a little while; I miss optimisting for AltaVista but there's always something new. I do some consulting. Boring, low-risk stuff that pays the bills. I have built some sites but I really like to spend other people's money. Most of all, I enjoy the...