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Your attitude is the key to successful search engine ranking

Search engine specialists will often blind you with science of getting to the top of the rankings. After all, you want to be “number one” for your important keywords, or at the very least on the front...

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You are better at search than Google

There is no denying that Google is clever. Just type in anything you like and within fractions of a second this search engine will find you almost everything there is to know about the topic and tell...

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Is Google rubbish or are we just lazy?

How many times a day do you use Google? if you are like most people online, you use Google several times per hour. Indeed, on average when you add up a quick search for this and a quick search for that...

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People know more than Google

Google is fantastic, don’t get me wrong, but compared with the human brain it is pretty basic. Indeed, compared with the brains of most living things, Google is actually primitive. Sure enough, it can...

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Google is annoying me more and more each day

Your really good friends know you well; they know what you like to drink, your favourite restaurants and what makes you laugh. But true friends never presume. They never buy your favourite drink in...

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Search statistics reveal interesting behaviour

Your customers search online every day, of course, but are they searching for you?  The Search Engine Optimization industry would have you believe that getting your site prepared for searchers is...

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Can you be addicted to SEO?

Addiction is a strong word. Some psychologists believe you cannot be addicted to something unless you have withdrawal symptoms if the item to which you are addicted is removed. Hence people addicted to...

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Interflora proves SEO can be harmful

Interflora is the world’s best-known brand for sending flowers; indeed, you have probably used it to send flowers to a loved one, or as a gift. So you would expect that if you searched for the word...

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Google does bad by doing good

Google is constantly changing how it ranks sites – and rightfully so; it still presents us with some right rubbish..! Don’t get me wrong, the company has made significant strides in eliminating dross...

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Google is helping you make poor decisions

What are the chances of you winning the Lottery, do you reckon?  In the UK Lottery, for instance, the winning numbers are just one possible set of 13,983,816 combinations. For the EuroMillions Lottery...

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Google confirmation: forget SEO

If you are a search engine optimisation specialist, brace yourself, this will be a tough read. If you are a business owner, you too should sit back and wait for it; you are most likely not immune from...

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The great big SEO test

Whatever we might think about Google, the algorithm the company has developed is quite a clever little beast. True, the company has been in the headlines because of its tax affairs and the EU has taken...

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Make it really hard for people to get links

Links. Love them or loathe them, they are the lifeblood of the Internet. Indeed, we expect them to be there so that we can connect to new information, additional services and exciting websites. In...

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Search is for old people

Search engines are dying. Get used to it – in a few years time search will be an “also ran” on the Internet. When you think about it, search engines are rather cumbersome and time-wasting. Their...

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Could you be wasting your time with Google?

Google could be wasting your time. Indeed, Google could be one of the biggest negative influences on workplace productivity in recent years. Gosh. There is little doubt we would be in a worse place if...

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Why you should write very long website articles

The notion that people do not want to read anything that is more than a few hundred words is patent nonsense. After all, if that were true why would there be more full-length books being sold each year...

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Why search results don’t work

How many times have you already searched for something online today? Once, twice, half a dozen? Most of us actually search a lot more than we think; Google handles over 5 billion search requests EVERY...

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Google+ will help your search engine ranking

Google+ does NOT help you gain higher search engine rankings. We know that because Google themselves say so. Indeed, one of their leading engineers Matt Cutts even went so far as having to debunk the...

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Forget search engines – they are wasting your time

Search engines – where would we be without them? How would you find anything? Goodness me – how on earth would we cope with business these days if we had to go back to using a library…? It is difficult...

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Search engines are about “news”

Focus on being “up-to-date” for search engine success The most popular searches on Google in 2014 were almost entirely about major news items. An analysis of search trends for the past 12 months shows...

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