Search results

Searchengineland report that this is a refresh of penguin 3.0. http://searchengineland.com/google-penguin-3-0-rollout-still-ongoing-209886

Google.com re-directs to Google.co.uk if you search from within the UK

Umm... OP has already explained he is targeting a UK audience. "Love Film" are a DVD rental co, and if you look at his site he has banners up for them. It's a very popular keyword as Love Film are a popular DVD rental service. 301k exact matches a month globally, of which 245k a month are in the UK.

Good luck with your case study. I've got lots of fanpages ranking in G. Was interested in your intention to sell them afterwards - I am also looking to offload some of my fanpages, but there doesn't seem to be any marketplace to do this.

You can use scroogle.org, or seoserp, both free (though they seem to pull info from different data centers)

With backlinks and a variety of anchor text of course.

How many teaser articles did you have on your home page, out of interest? That might be the problem, as each article title will show up as an h1 or h2 header. Have too many and you could have tripped a filter. Try reducing the number of teaser articles on the front page and pinging to let...

A few months ago, Bing took over Yahoo SERPs, and Bing doesn't like to report backlinks (just like Google). Wouldn't be at all surprised if they were looking to phase out Yahoo site explorer - what benefit is it to them?

Found some on there that I didn't know - yay!

Sometimes you have to buy the dot info because someone is cybersquatting on the .coms and others. I went to buy a .com last month only to find GoDaddy had decided it was "premium" and wanted to charge $1599 for it. So I paid my 99 cents for the dot info instead, and as far as I'm concerned...

Just a heads up if you are using a blogger blog as part of your link roots/nodes. Blogger seems to have automatically incorporated analytics now - when you log in, you should see a "stats" tab on your blog. I have a blog on there that I was tracking with statcounter, but it now has blogger's...

There are still real people who share links on social bookmarking platforms like delicious and reddit and still real people who share links in forums. As long as that is the case, Google dare not apply a blanket discount or blanket ban on these links. If I were Google this is what I'd do: I'd...

Platforms that struggle to stay indexed: infobarrel They seem to stay in the index for five minutes and then drop out. I guess you could make them stick if you sent a ton of links to them, but there are easier web 2.0s to work with.

Ah, the "harnessing the masses" technique! Back in the day (2006, I don't go further back than that, LOL), people did freely link to whatever they fancied or liked, but in turn you linked out to whatever you fancied too. It didn't involve much pondering either, it was pretty much, see...

Yup, and a high PR page on a high authority domain has even more power. It's worth backlinking your web2.0s just for that.

You place a link on the web 2.0 site to your site - and the juice then passes to your site. People seem to be getting very stingy in their thinking - it's all "I don't want to backlink my web 2.0's because it's another site's properties" or "I shouldn't place good material on web 2.0, as it's...

Yes, but squidoo/lensthathasbeenbacklinked = PRwhatever. As with everything, if you backlink the web 2.0s you create, they gain pagerank and you can use links from them to power your website.

Twitter is nofollow (apart from the link to your blog in your profile). However, tweeting does get you indexed fast, and occasionally when your stuff gets retweeted it shows up in some twitter aggregators which are do follow. Should you bother? It depends on how much time you have, to be honest...

Regarding no-follow links - you don't actually have to actively seek them out - you just publish a few articles on the main article directories and there are always people who will republish the content and carefully no-follow all the links (even though they are not supposed to). When you can...

That's really interesting. It makes sense that they benchmark you to your nearest competitor (rather than have a blanket rule for the entire web regardless of keyword). I always thought that they compared spikes in links to spikes in searches - so for example when Michael Jackson died...