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Steve Deane

Websites since 1999. SEO since 2008.

Why Google Thinks You’re a Naughty Boy

by Steve Deane
google thinks you're naughty

Earlier today a client asked a question about Google punishing over-optimisation. I thought it might be of general interest, so here you go… Certainly over-optimisation was punished i.e. people who had 10,000 links all saying …

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Google doesn’t even rank for the keyword “search engine”

by Steve Deane
search engine and google rankings

I was bored last Saturday afternoon and for no apparent reason I typed “search engine” into google.com.au.  Above is a screen shot of what came back.  I was shocked, but also quite pleased to see …

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Apart from Rankings, What Other Metrics Prove SEO is Working?

by Steve Deane

Sometimes we, as SEO people, get too focussed on rankings for this particular keyword, or that particular keyword and we forget about the bigger picture.  Obviously it is important to rank for your big hitting …

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How to Get Blog Post Ideas in Even the Most Boring Industries

by Steve Deane

Your industry is boring?  Well so is mine. I don’t really mean that!  I think SEO is very interesting, but for the average Joe it is fairly boring and technical and yawn inducing.  However, everyone …

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30 Interesting SEO Experiments: Part 6 of 6

by Steve Deane

26. Google Filtering from Country to Country As Google filters work differently in different countries, marketers set out to see how a country-specific Google filter tracks visitors for sites hosted in other countries. The test …

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Isagenix Australia – A New Client Story

by Steve Deane

http://detoxmatters.com/ took a hit in their rankings on 22nd May 2013.  They came to us for help and here is the start of the story. The website aim to rank for keywords related to “isagenix”.  This …

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30 Interesting SEO Experiments: Part 5 of 6

by Steve Deane

21. Playing with the Canonical Tag Other than its use in identifying genuine site content versus duplicate sites, marketers looked into whether the canonical tag could be used to create other effects. To try this …

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30 Interesting SEO Experiments: Part 4 of 6

by Steve Deane

16. Anchor Text Effect While keyword anchor text links used to work in favor of a site’s SEO, the Google Penguin update put a stop to all that. This experiment set out to use related …

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30 Interesting SEO Experiments: Part 3 of 6

by Steve Deane

11. Link Spying Using Duplicate Content While Google Webmaster Tools may only let webmasters see their own site stats, a little-known workaround will let you see link information for other peoples’ sites. By duplicating a …

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30 Interesting SEO Experiments: Part 2 of 6

by Steve Deane

6. To Capitalize or Not to Capitalize Keyword terms entered in capital letters versus lowercase letters tends to generate a different number of search results. This experiment looks to see if page ranking is affected …

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