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That one single hour in each day when I get in the "zone" and do week's worth of work in a single shot. Still figuring out how to extend that for the full 8 hours

Going offline.

Have a TV or radio ad and tell people to search "your keyword".

I believe this was successfully executed for phrase "seo found" in Australia. http://www.google.com.au/search?q=seo%20found I was first suprised to see a peak in search volumes in Google Keyword Tool and was later told that they had a massive advertising campaign for this phrase.

This is something I intend to try in the future.

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And if you don't get a link? Nevermind. You end up with a great piece of content that will likely attract a non-negotiated link anyway.

Google has endorsed use of breadcrumbs in several of their videos. They are a helpful device for website with complex structure or hierarchy such as eCommerce sites. They not only aid user navigation but also help search engines get a clearer picture about your site's structure. For example if you're using faceted navigation you could end up on a product page that has a long URL and ambiguous placement in the site's hierarchy. Breadcumbs can aid with this. Another neat thing is in the SERPs when you get little: Top Level > Main Category > Sub Category type links under your snippet.

I would use it at the top only, it's become a bit of a standard and people know where to expect it. Referncing it twice would be just a doubleup of the same set of links.

I've recently discovered: http://explicitly.me/ and love it.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200622210180

Whatever it sells for I'm giving to: http://www.beaheroaustralia.org/

Thanks guys,

Dan

Alt, although a valid signal is not as heavy as title for example, so I suggest that you do not compromise the integrity and quality of site for SEO purposes only and manipulation of this tag. Use ALT as it should be used and describe your illustrations, photos, products images and diagrams well enough so that a visually impaired may get an idea of what the image is. That's what Google expects you to do and is generally a win-win.

This is a smart move by SEOMoz, this forum will take over dwindling SEO forums we used to visit which are now full of spammers and ridiculous content. Barrier to entry is the key to quality here. Well done.

Just to add that I would personally be scared of having domainname.co if I know my competitor has domainname.com - too easy to spell it wrong and send free traffic the wrong way.

There is absolutely no mystery about whether inbound links can harm you or not. Apparently Google is very good at determining whether it was you buying links or somebody trying to sabotage you. I had a chat with Tiffany from Google's web spam team at SMX in Sydney and she said that there has been no cases when they got it wrong when they issue penalties.

I have a different theory however. To get penalised you need to demonstrate consistent link buying pattern over time. What typically happens is that SEO people buy high PageRank links only with very closely matched anchor text. Often these links are sold to other webmasters with different site topics. This is very easy for Google to spot.

What happens though is that during this process the rankings will shoot up like crazy and if you were to try and sabotage your competitor you would have helped them in the process and also spent an incredible amount of money. All that for them to submit a reconsideration request to Google and be out of jail within weeks.

As far as I know attempts at cheap forms of link spam in order to penalise competitors have so far been unsuccessful.

I started typing, paused, and then deleted everything. I think it's best if you reveiw the following:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-online-marketing-with-giant-infographic-11928

Maybe print it and hang it up on the office wall to remind people of types of activities they can perform.

My advice is not to be scared of document size. Have as much data in there as needed to inform and provide regular call to action throughout. Good semantic structure will help Google understand what you're really about. Don't stuff your TITLE with many things - I am guessing you're about a single product or service. Often people try to put too much in key areas, forgetting that Google will pick up miscellaneous other terms from the page and have it rank for it as well.

Use H tags as they are meant to be used but if you can nicely embed your phrase within that would be great. How to use H tags? Same as you would with indentation structure of a bullet point list. Have them indicate document's topical structure.

For example:

-H1: Vehicles
--H2: Cars
---H3: Sedans
---H3: SUVs
--H2: Motorbikes
---H3: Dirtbikes
---H3: Roadbikes
----H4: Harley Davidson
---H3: Sportsbikes 
----H4: Suzuki
-----H5: SFV650
------H6: SFV650 Engine Specifications

1. Understanding business they link build for (CRITICAL!)
2. Search skills (advanced search operators, semantic flow)
3. Use of our internal link management database (recording, categorising and tagging links)
4. Content writing / ordering
5. Establishment of a real internet persona
6. Natural email writing
7. Phone skills

Your Google PageRank went down immediately after some of your linking websites lost their PageRank or cut their links to you. Toolbar PageRank updates rarely so you couldn't see it until now. Timing with Panda is accidental and not related to your PageRank change. Nothing to worry about and keep up with great content and good design. New thing to keep an eye on is user experience, however links are still very strong as a factor so you should try to earn great links as well.

You can install the "Canonical URL's" plugin straight from your wp-admin interface: yourdomain.com/wp-admin/plugin-install.php?tab=search&type=term&s=canonical&plugin-search-input=Search+Plugins

(should be first result)

This plugin is pretty basic but you can tweak its settings in the plugin configuration panel.

You will now notice that your source code contains another line:

rel='canonical' href='http://yourwebsite.com' />

In a natural link profile there will be both followed and nofollowed links, if you only ever get dofollow links and your link profile is big - it will certainly look unnatural. I like nofollow links which come from great places, especially if they mention my brand (citation) or bring traffic and recognition.

• Creating a lot of bad content is a bad strategy.
• Creating a lot of good content is a good strategy.

(Assuming it's done in balance with your capacity.)

Content is the king but a kingdom needs other roles to run smoothly so I would not completely sacrifice other SEO activities just to satisfy monthly content needs.

One example of content being a problem is when too many pages discuss the same topic and fragment your inbound links, diluting the effect. This would only be good if that was only way to get as many diverse inbound links.

This is not a question but something to share. If you click on all of these links and compare the results you will see why _ is not a good thing to have in your URLs.

• http://www.google.com/search?q=blue
• http://www.google.com/search?q=b.l.u.e
• http://www.google.com/search?q=b-l-u-e
• http://www.google.com/search?q=b_l_u_e
• http://www.google.com/search?q=b%20l%20u%20e

If you have any other examples of working separators please comment.