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Google made an algorythm change on or around the 2nd of December. Unfortunately, it seemed one of my sites got penalised quite heavily as traffic dropped to a mere quarter overnight. The algorythm change was pitched as a way of thwarting the black hat technique of actively pursuing negative reviews as a link building tactic. [...]

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Andy on December 9th, 2010

Danny Dover is asking this question over at SEOMoz. Personally, I expect him to get the “fast” result from the Tweeted page, and the long term result from the linked to page.: Help end Hunger in Sierra Leone and meet the life you change. I was a tad taken aback by the number of commentors [...]

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Andy on September 2nd, 2010

What your unsolicited e-mail tells the potential client about you @bignameseocompany.com No-one get’s unsolicited mail from these guys. @owndomain.com Fair chance you actually know something about websites. Quite probably mention the fact that you are based in India as a selling point. You know how to “maximise brand effectiveness by leveraging the Web 2.0 Socioshpere” [...]

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Andy on March 22nd, 2010

This week SEOMOZ put up a post on crawling and indexing issues with Faceted Search. They also made reference to an interview with Matt Cutts on Faceted Search and SEO. Normally I’d join the conversation on there and pop in a comment or two, but in this instance I want to save myself the flames [...]

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Andy on February 8th, 2010

It’s easy to be a bad company these days. Just don’t give too much of a hoot about your customers AFTER you’ve got their money for instance. I can think of quite a long list for that. On the other hand, how about being deliberately deceptive, and actually publishing the fact that you are for [...]

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Andy on January 16th, 2007

OK, apparently Microsoft are discontinuing Frontpage because no-one is building websites any more – just blogs. So my website becomes a blog – I wonder who will read it. My mother better turn up at least…

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