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Free press release submission sites
2008-04-03 15:00:00
Do you need to get the word out about your new site? Do you have something newsworthy to say? If so, sending out press releases can be one way to do it. You may also get some links back to your site. Mr SEO provides a nice list of free press release submission sites.
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72% of British Prefer UK Domains
2008-01-22 14:25:00
According to this article from Nominet, a survey of 2,324 Internet users carried out by YouGov last year found that 72% of people said they’d visit a British .uk web address above any other.
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Word Order for Local Searches (UK vs. US)
2007-11-21 15:00:00
Having spent a lot of time lately looking through data on UK searches from Word tracker, I’ve been starting to wonder whether there’s a difference between the order of words that UK and US searchers use when doing local searches. In particular, I had started to get the impression that US searchers tended to favour (or favor ...
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How Search Rank Affects Click Through Rate
2007-11-08 02:58:00
I was having a look today for some good quantitative data on how position in search engine results affects traffic. Most of the articles knocking around about this seem to date from August 2006 when some data from AOL was inadvertently made public. Red Cardinal has an analysis and charts about it. ...
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Review of Wordtracker for UK SEO
2007-11-06 16:02:00
I’ve been using Wordtracker for keyword research for a couple of months now. It’s the only affordable service that offers detailed search frequency data for the UK, so it’s an important one for any UK-based SEO practitioner to be aware of. (Better still, it’s a product from a UK company - yay!) Features Keyword ...
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The One Big Secret to Website Marketing
2007-11-06 02:16:00
In the world of search engine optimisation, there’s a lot of talk about such things as keyword density and link anchor text.  People worry about the keywords they use in their domain names, URLs and blog post titles.  Before you worry about all that, though, and as SEO guru Aaron Wall makes clear in his ...
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.co.uk vs .com - Which Domain Name is Better?
2007-11-02 18:24:00
Let’s suppose we’re setting up a new website for a company that targets the UK market. We’re looking for a domain name, but what’s the best suffix to use; .co.uk or .com? The answer is very clear: go for .co.uk every time! Around 62% of searches in the UK are done with Google.co.uk (see this article ...
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SEO Quick Wins
2007-11-01 13:20:00
What are the best ‘low-hanging fruit’ areas to target if you want the maximum impact from a small amount of SEO effort? To answer this, we’ll first look at which factors matter the most. We’ll then look at which of those are easiest to tackle.  The factors that both carry a lot of ...
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Welcome
2007-10-31 18:21:00
Welcome to the SearchBloke blog. SearchBloke is a site all about doing SEO for the UK market. I’ll be taking a look at what special considerations you need to take into account when targeting UK searchers and hopefully sharing the results of a few tests to see which SEO techniques are the most ...