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Are Building Backlinks a Waste Of Time?

By On November 22, 2011 · 29 Comments

I’m probably fairly slow to know who some people are online, but being a member of the secret forum The Pond I ran across someone called Fraser Cain.

For those that don’t know (although I suspect most of you do), Fraser is the webmaster (is that the correct term these days) [...]

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How To Rank #1 in Google – A Poem

By On December 18, 2010 · 9 Comments

Dear Tracey,

How many links to get to #1 Google?
Do I blast out an xrumer OR try and be frugal?
I’ve heard that backlinks are king, is it true?
And can I do it on my website that’s brand new?
Tell me do I use the exact anchor phrase?
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Should You Vary Your Anchor Text?

By On December 8, 2010 · 26 Comments

I say yes.

All my testing seems to point that you can easily get a penalty in Google from some sort of filter that can detect if you have an unnatural linking profile i.e. using the same anchor text to rank your page.

It used to be that you could spam your anchor keyword to [...]

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Where Did My Amazon Sales Go?

By On October 18, 2010 · 12 Comments

WTF? Just when I was expecting my Amazon sales to go up this month as the Christmas buying season starts, my sales have actually dropped off instead. Being in a bit of a panic mode I’ve decided to try and work up just what’s up?

Overall my rankings haven’t changed that much. My good sites [...]

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More Clicks from Links or Images?

By On October 11, 2010 · 19 Comments

So do you get more clicks on your text links or your image links? This is something that I wanted to find out, and while this ‘study’ isn’t at all scientific and just based on a handful of my Amazon sites I thought you’d be interested in the results.

Now I could [...]

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