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The days when blogging to bring potential customers to your online business was a new concept are long gone – blogging now is quite common. However, it might still make sense to remind of several tricks every blogger will find useful. I shared them previously with several people who asked me how to bring visitors…

With Google’s recently started war on paid links, the threat of negative SEO being used by competitors has been discussed a lot in the SEO community. Indeed, whenever Google publicly declares any offsite tactic as frowned upon, there is a discussion about the possibility of using this very tactic against competitor sites to get them…

Recently Jadehat has shown me a cool plugin for FireFox called Ubiquity (thank you Jadehat!) which I fell in love with immediately. It lets you easily do a lot of things in your browser by simply entering the commands. What’s better yet, it lets you create your own commands to teach Ubiquity your own useful…

Recently, I got asked: What was the best article about keyword research you’ve read in your life? Guess what my reply was? I said there was no such thing as best article about keyword research. Here’s why. Keyword research can be done for all kinds of different purposes. Keyword research for PPC is not the…

There are millions of blogs out there these days and each of them has its own reason for being. Some people blog for fun and there’s nothing wrong with it – but we’re not talking of such blogs now. Some people blog to attract attention to their business and establish trust with their potential customers,…

This is the first of a series of posts about Google’s tools and options for webmasters – I plan to do several such posts about most popular features webmasters use as often there is misunderstanding of how these tools and features work. Sometimes site owners believe it necessary to disable Google cache on their sites…

Since I started providing consulting services, I’ve had all kinds of clients and all kinds of issues to work on. Sometimes I get  enquiries  from  clients  who just  want a simple SEO question answered  or need me to take a quick look at their site just to comfirm whether or not they are doing things…

Recently I’ve been asked to express my opinion about the subject of this blog post about common link building methods: * Mass directory submission * Bulk article submission * Forum signature links * Comment spam * Link exchange requests Of course sometimes these techniques *might* give some results but the way that they are generally…

A friend of mine recently asked me for advice on trhe following issue. She runs a blog where she writes about affiliate products  in a certain niche trying to make money by referring people to those products. Not every post she writes is a product review, she also has articles on topic of the niche…

Those who know me are aware of the fact that I like messing with international markets. Now, Google may or may not be the search engine of choice for non-English speaking markets (what we know about Google’s share of the search market is mainly true about the English-speaking market – elsewhere results may differ), but…