By Clifton Tolboe For our weekly ThoughLab SEO update we are going to focus on a topic that is easily misunderstood and widely abused – black hat SEO, sometimes called negative SEO and its effect (s) in relation to …
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By: Clifton Tolboe There are basically only two types of work that can be classified as search engine optimization- onsite, meaning title tags and off-site, meaning links, press releases, social media, traditional media, and Google and Bing analytics. Despite the …
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By Clifton Tolboe Today we’re going back to the SEO playground! And nothing is more basic and important to a site than properly written title tags. You know the ones that used to appear in the little blue bars in …
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Google has become the prominent search engine, defeating other search engines because deep down, it has always been better at what it did – connecting users to the sites they were looking for. Many people now look at Google like …
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See what we did there? BAMBOOzled. All punning aside, the truth is that the rabid Panda big G released from its caged laboratory early this year, came along and feasted on the sour underbelly of the Internet. “Hooray,” we hear …
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Google recently launched a new way to search called “Google Instant”. Now, when you browse to Google and start to search, “instant” is automatically turned on and as you type the results you see the results change instantly as you …
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Google finds a way around the Chinese government’s censorship of their service.
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A brief explanation of how canonicalization can benefit your search engine optimization (SEO), and how to use a simple script created by Google to maximize your search rankings by specifying a single URL and streamlining search results.
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In explaining Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to prospects and clients alike it seems that there are a lot of companies that look at search engines and SEO as a mystical realm where one only hopes to rank well. Because of …
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Google is raising the bar again as they have been developing an entirely new version of the search engine everyone loves. Although most users will never notice the difference in results; Google boasts faster indexing speeds, more accurate results and a …
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