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Yes, it certainly is. I'm always searching and hoping for a 'quick win' strategy, but nothing can really beat earnt links unfortunately!

If you ever find software that can create some great content then go out and network with people and share the content, then get some links back in from these credible sources, please let me know!

Sounds like a good strategy; never really considered copywriters before, so I'll investigate.

How would you go about 'marketing the hell out of it'?

No, just no! Automated software is never really a good idea and although it may result in short term gain, the long term prospects are not very good at all.

Concentrate on creating high quality links that require a human to put effort it. 1 high quality link will out shine 1,000 spammy links

haha, yes, that's a fair point, taken.

I'm essentially looking to get some high quality links, but my time is limited, hence looking for other options. But as you say and I agree, this may not be the place to go!

Thanks for the wake up call!

They've got a few examples on their site of clients they'd helped, but I hadn't thought about checking the Whois, so I shall do that.

Also, it's hard to determine what links they may have added and what links the site owners have added via. other methods.

I'll do some more investigation

Thanks

Has anyone had any experience with or used quickseoresults.com? I'm just looking into them now. They seem to offer a 30 day free trial based on 'white hat' tactics that gives results. You can then pay to continue their services. They seem to base their services heavily around link building, so I'm dubious.

Thomas,

Just had a gander, and I like the look of it. Just the sort of thing I was after!

Thanks for the tip!

OK, before anyone says anything, I know this isn't the right way to do things properly and that if I want to build a genuine and interested following base, I need to create some great content, tweet great things of interest and build a genuine and engaged follower base....

BUT

....Has anyone got any actual experience of using paid for twitter followers and if so would you recommend it or recommend any particular company who does it in the UK?

I know there's companies who do it by getting reciprocal followers and others who just use bots to give you lots of 'useless' followers.

I essentially want to know if it can work at all on any level and get you some degree of useful followers (i.e. people who may actually read your tweets as opposed to fake accounts).

Wahey! Thought it was about time.

Thanks Greg

Anyone know when it is?

Gianluca,

Yes - sorry, It's a wordpress blog. But the main site isn't. So will this plug-in generate the sitemap for the wholesite (i.e from the root downwards?)

Thanks

Excuse my sitemap ignorance here.

I've got a site and it's got a blog in a sub-folder. The blog gets updated frequently, the main site does not.

Is it best to;

a) Have 2 sitemaps.. one in the root and one in the /blog folder.

b) Have 1 sitemap that is regularly updated

The reason being, I know there's various plugins that create blog sitemaps on the fly, so that would be much easier than updating the main sitemap every time a change was made.

If the answer is 2 sitemaps; Would you stop the root sitemap from detailing the contents of the blog folder or just update it every so often with the contents of the blog folder?

Anthony,

Thanks. I'll see if I can dig out their contact form because it's just getting a bit silly now.

I've made sure that the address I've given is the most detailed possible, but still no joy!

I've been trying to register a business on Google Places now for a few months.

As part of the verification process, Google send a postcard to your business address so that you can enter the pin online and verify your address.

They also say that it takes up to 3 weeks, however this is now the 3rd time I've requested a pin and none have turned up so far. The latest one was requested well over 3 weeks ago.

Has anyone else had problems getting a local results postcard? It's driving me nuts!

Atul,

Try reading this, especially the website content section;

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

There's some great stuff in there that every SEO can learn from

As Zachary says, these results are personalised.

The best way to check is to use incognito in Google and Private browsing in Firefox whilst being logged out of your google account. This should remove any personalisation from your searches.

As long as your website hasn't got a particulary spammy link profile then adding spammy links to it should make no difference. Google recognises the fact that anyone can link to your sites and potential 'spam bomb' your site with numerous dodgy links, so rather than penalising you for it, if Google didn't like a link, it would just devalue the link to your site.

If it's got a DA of 66, then it's probably worth linking to your site. Although DA can't tell us if google has penalised a particular site, it's still a good measure.

On another note, be aware that google has the ability to detect sites that are linking to each other from the same server, C-Block or even with similar registration details. Therefore it's possible for your link to be devalued if it recognises it as coming from the same source/owner.