So how do you get a job in the SEO space?
Do you speak to one of the “digital services” recruitment agencies? Digital services? I hate the term digital services, it’s SEO or SEM or even online marketing.
The limited experience of recruitment agencies has been all bad. Most of the time I feel like I [...]

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Creating conversation can be more linkable than pure content.
Starting an exchange of ideas within your niche can be more illuminating than simply publishing what you think, although to start the conversation you may have to publish what you think. The quality of the conversation will in someway reflect your understanding of the industry, whatever it [...]

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Been messing around with aiderss.com
It looks at a number of variables and tries to sort out the best posts from a blog. I have applied it to the digg monster cracked.com. It’s very useful for picking out headline ideas.

new AideWidget(’aidewidget’, 10550, ‘year’, 30);

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I try really hard to say no to any client linkbait requests these days, I do the odd one here and there. But I am so busy with other projects it’s difficult to give a client the time needed.
I now have a solution. If you need some great linkbait work done, get yourself over to [...]

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This is an seo test, nothing to get that excited about, unless you find seo tests exciting.
Ed Dale Mankini , is a search term that is being tested by Ed Dale and his gang over at 30 Day Challenge. (note: not quite accurate, see comments)
What’s interesting is they are targeting a lot of web 2.0 [...]

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Red Evo made a comment on a guest post I wrote for Searchenginepeople.com. I ask what would you call linkbait if you couldn’t call it linkbait, his reply was “good content”.
No. Linkbait is not good content. Linkbait is exceptional content. All your content should be good at least I hope it is. Linkbait is [...]

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Turning clicks into customers
I usually don’t mention when a site gets a redesign, but this is a little different. I first blogged about Conversion Rate Experts, aka Ben and Karl way back in 2006. I could see then that these guys were special.

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I am now Plurking at Plurk, it’s a purdy, Twitter type, Web 2.0, chat to people, type thing which you will get bored with after a few months.
If you ask, what’s the point. Then the answer would be very little. However, if you get why increasing the number of your connections is of benefit to [...]

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Jim Boykin has asked me to speak at SEO class in Edinburgh on June 23rd and 24th. In attendance will be Ammon Johns, Barry Lloyd, Brian Turner, Shaun Anderson and of course, the man himself Jim Boykin.
I am absolutely chuffed and humbled to be asked to speak, especially in the presence of such brilliant [...]

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I hate Wordpress. Being a lazy man I would rather be laying on the beach reading back issues of 2000AD, than re-inserting code into a freshly updated Wordpress blog.
So I installed the seo title plugin
It enables you to remove the defined blog title from the title tag, enabling the title tag of the page to [...]

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