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Are you looking for an SEO expert to help achieve high search engine rankings in Google, Yahoo and MSN? Here’s how you find that SEO Expert, your own SEO Guru. What is an SEO Expert? Before we find an SEO expert, we first need to decide what an SEO expert is. There are many self [...]

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Phentermine, Xanax and Blackjack is apparently what most of my readers are into according to the comments “Spam Karma 2″ and “Akismet” (two WordPress comment spam plugins) are catching :-) Here’s a recent one I find funny- Name: phentermine online | E-mail: phentermine @ mail.uk | URI: ####### phentermine-online-swicki.eurekster.com/ | IP: 82.146.42.206 | Date: May [...]

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We had a toolbar PR update around Feb 18th and the next one is due around the end of May/beginning of June, so toolbar PR should be stable right now. Some pages are showing pre toolbar update PR values (so what we saw prior to the Feb 18th update) and others are showing the new [...]

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Reading the newsgroup alt.internet.search-engines and a post subject: PR confusion? caught my eye. A poster to the NG has been having problems with an affiliate site http://www.review-a-gadget.com/ and he’s been given some poor quality advice. I’m confused about PR again. Not surprised you’ve got some really bad advice lately, been following your newsgroup threads, but [...]

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Was reading a post on alt.internet.search-engines (newsgroup) called “SEO certification” which had gone a little off topic, had gone on to basically how to show you are a good SEO consultant by showing your rankings (SERPs). I started to respond, but thought it would be better on the SEO section of the blog (some new [...]

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This post is based on a thread (Re: My Google Page Rank is 4) in the NG alt.internet.search-engines and a request for help in the comments at SEO Expert page. Original poster asked about his 3-4 month old site www.cre8ivemind.com, with a PR4 home page, but no pages indexed in Google despite using Google site [...]

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Links from a page are very important to it’s rankings, if you want a SERP like Search Engine Rankings the best web pages you can link to from the page that targets this SERP should be about Search Engine Rankings and the anchor text should include the SERP or similar derivative. A derivative phrase might [...]

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Having a discussion at alt.internet.search-engines under the thread Re: Links and PR with Borek, and decided I’d put my answer here instead of on the NG. Won’t waste some half decent content this way :-) Borek asked- “Let’s see… Is there optimal size for a page SEO Wise?” I replied- For Google below 101KB and [...]

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I don’t consider myself an affiliate marketer per se, but have drifted towards affiliate marketing as I’ve used my SEO skills to make money online. So I’m no affiliate marketing guru, just a guy who is very good at SEO and likes to make money online while sleeping :-) Currently Google hates almost anything that’s [...]

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There’s a discussion in the NG alt.internet.search-engines “comparing seo techniques [was: To hyphen or not to hyphen]” partially based on this web page How to get IE6 to apply image border styles on hover (mouseover)?. The owner of the Locus Optimus (Els) is a web designer who focuses on accessibility based web design, a growing [...]

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