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Alexa goes up, PageRank goes down, does it matter?

October 16, 2008 Blog

It’s been a while since I checked my Google PageRank and my Alexa traffic rankings, so I decided to have a little peek this morning. My findings weren’t particularly interesting, but they did get me thinking about the state of my business. First of all, what did Google and Alexa think? It seems that Google [...]

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4 steps to online marketing success

September 10, 2008 Blog

Online marketing doesn’t have to be complicated, and as far as I know there aren’t any rules to say you can’t have fun doing it. Everything your microbusiness needs to be an online success is contained within the next 4 points. Granted, it’s a bit simplified, but the basic idea is bang on. So read [...]

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Fancy a free website optimisation report?

September 3, 2008 Blog

Recently I bought a copy of iBusiness Promoter (IBP), a tool to help with website optimisation. Now, before all you hardcore SEO’s start jumping on your high horses about the value of this type of software, let me point out a few things: I am not a professional SEO. I hire people to handle SEO [...]

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Does web hosting affect Search Engine Optimisation?

September 2, 2008 Blog

Apparently it does. 6 months ago, when I finally made the decision to return to the UK for good, I started actively targeting UK based website maintenance clients by writing content specifically targeted at google.co.uk. To date the response from Google has been non-existant. If you were to do a Google.com search for ‘UK website [...]

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Over 1100 backlink opportunities for website owners

August 25, 2008 Blog

I keep thinking to myself “there must be a better way of getting a Google #1 ranking than building hundreds of backlinks for ‘website maintenance services’ to thinkdave.com”. But there isn’t a better way. You either add great content and build good links, or you flounder on page 100 of Google’s results. Building links is [...]

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How Google can save your micro business over £400

August 13, 2008 Blog

Google has always been very good at giving things away to ensure the entrenchment of their brand across the Internet. While some people tend to wax lyrical about how you should boycott Google’s attempts to take over the world, I disagree. As of this writing, there are 5 excellent (FREE) services offered by Google that [...]

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5 Internet marketing tools that will always work

August 11, 2008 Blog

Just when I think I’m starting to get the hang of the latest Internet Marketing fad, another one replaces it. This seems to happen about once a week at the moment. But there are a number of Internet Marketing tools that just keep on working, no matter how the Web evolves. Here are 5 goodies [...]

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Life got in the way again. Sorry

August 9, 2008 Blog

When Robert Burns said ‘The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry’, he must have been thinking about me. I had planned to write 5 new posts on thinkdave.com last week. Instead, life intervened and I didn’t write a thing – but you probably already noticed that. To make amends for my [...]

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Friday website workout: link building in 20 minutes

August 1, 2008 Blog

One of the oldest and simplest ways of building backlinks to your website is to add listings to online directories. Directory submissions are boring and tedious (hence the reason I charge £135 for 500 manual submissions) but they do work. If you can find 20 minutes every Friday to add your website to 10 directories, [...]

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Flash and Google – not quite soulmates yet

July 29, 2008 Blog

If you’ve ever asked any Internet marketer worth his salt about the use of Flash on a website, you’ll know that while it can be used to create visually stunning websites, it’s a complete nightmare from a search engine optimization perspective. So when Google reported that their search tools are starting to support Flash indexing [...]

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