Thanks to the post that our writer Shaun did about interestingly shaped communities on Google maps there have been many thousands of visitors on this blog in the last week, it went really viral. Altogether the post has had over 67,000 unique visitors and many of them clicked onto the view larger map links to go and see a bigger map on Google.
I ran a report using my premium MyBlogLog account to see how many readers clicked onto the Google.com domain from this blog in the last week and then I ran one to see how many readers came from the Google.com and Google.co.uk domains, here are the results:
- This blog sent Google – 2097 visitors
- Google sent this blog – 1794 visitors
So in a bizarre case of role reversal this week I have sent Google about 15% more traffic then it sent me.
The vast majority of the Google traffic came from Google reader not from search, I wish this blog got that much search traffic.
Posted in SEO News By David Eaves, a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
June 19th, 2009
About a month ago I got a link exchange request from a guy called Suny:
“Dear Webmaster,
First of all let me introduce myself – I am Suny, Link Manager
handle online marketing for my client http://www.sunyseocompany.com
To increase the link popularity of my client’s site , we are now looking for triangular Link swapping with some good quality sites. You are already aware that Triangular Link swapping is much more popular and beneficial than Reciprocal Link exchange . This way both the sites gets the benefited . I would request you to place my client’s link at your site. ( please add my site at least page rank(1) page.)
Here are details of my site :
Url : http://www.sunyseocompany.com
Title : Professional SEO Company
Des: SEO Company ‘SEO Visions’ is home to suny and eajaz, experts in Search Engine Optimization, Traffic Building and Internet Marketing. Increase your return on investment online with us today.Email:-suny@sunyseocompany.com
Or you can simply use the following Linking code:
a href = http://www.sunyseocompany.com > Professional SEO Company SEO Company ‘SEO Visions’ is home to suny and eajaz, experts in Search Engine Optimization, Traffic Building and Internet Marketing. Increase your return on investment online with us today.Email:-suny@sunyseocompany.com
I will add your link at my site on Page Rank. choose any one site ;-
http://submitexpress.we.bs :- page rank -4
Please forward me your linking details along with confirmation where my link have been added by you.
Hoping an early and positive response from your side.
Have a nice day ahead 
Best Regards”
All sounds pretty good right? Wrong, the site Suny is offering me a link on is an exact rip off the Submit Express UK website and he had used the old blackhat PageRank 10 trick to fake the PageRank, when he 1st sent me the email his website http://submitexpress.we.bs was showing a PageRank 4/10.
I knew he had faked it because at the time if I looked at the Google cache of http://submitexpress.we.bs it went straight to the cache of http://www.submitexpress.co.uk.
If I had of gone for his deal I would have got no real link as the site he was offering me a link on was not even included in the Google index.
What this guy was doing was wrong on so many different levels so I emailed Submit Express and told them what he had done.
Today I got I new email from Sunny that was pretty much the same as the last one only this time he was offering me a link on a new URL:
“I will add your link at my site on Page Rank.
http://www.seocompanys.we.bs/ page rank -5″
If you check right now that site that he is offering me a link from: http://www.seocompanys.we.bs is an exact clone of SEOCompany.ca and if you click on the link below:
Google cache of: http://www.seocompanys.we.bs
You will see that the cache of seocompanys.we.bs just goes straight to the cache of seocompany.ca. This is because Suny has used the old redirect trick.
This guy has really gone the extra mile with the link exchange scam, I bet a few people have been taken in by the prospect of a nice link from a PR4 or PR5 site.
I feel sorry for the people who are getting ripped off by this guy so I have outed him. I am surprised that the fake PageRank trick still works.
Posted in SEO News By David Eaves, a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
May 12th, 2009
I have been really busy working this week so I haven’t had chance to do a proper post. There are a few things I want to talk about though:
Advertising
I am now running adsense on the site. Sorry about that. I just like the idea of getting free money, even if it is not a lot. I think if you want your ads to show up on this site you can select it with Google adwords or something, but I am not 100% sure. Other then that I am open to offers, I will sell a banner on the frontpage of this site if the money is right. No text links or anything though – I know it sucks.
According to Google Analytics this site has had 20,833 mainly very highly targeted visitors in the last 30 days. Although admittedly this Watch-Movies.net SEO review has accounted for about 5,000 of those.
Please drop me a mail, if you are interested in advertising on this site.
The Times Got Their PageRank Back
I 1st noticed this yesterday, it is nice to see some good has come out of the authority sites with a PageRank penalty post.
Directory Listings
I have started to make a UK SEO directory and a web designers directory.
The SEO one is already quite comprehensive – I have listed most of the better whitehat-ish UK companies that I know about in there. Please feel free to drop me a mail if you would like a listing, but I am very strict. You wont here back from me either way, if I think your site is the real deal it will be listed.
The web design one I just need listings for – I know different people like different things. I do however have some standards, if your own website has 120+ coding errors on the homepage it does not look good. People like me have to clean up these messes and it is not my idea of a cool Friday night. An error or two here and there I don’t mind and I would probably not reject you purely on bad code, especially if you have good graphic design skills or something. But take note, it is part of the quality score – a bit like Google’s algo. Just send me a mail if you want me to check out your UK web design site.
Buy Linkbait Online
Visit our linkbait services page to buy a piece of linkbait online for £999 through Google Checkout. It says we will take a week to make it, but the truth is we have quality writers just waiting to write some linkbait for your site right now – we will probably have it done in 3 days. We have dropped the price to £999 to try and bring in some sales. Visit the page for details of what you get with the service. We have been consistently getting good results for some time now. For most medium to large sized sites it is well worth it, I had my doubts, but I have seen the benefit now. It takes time, but when well optimised sites start to build authority they can fly.
Awesome Links
I never end up linking to any of the stuff I want to link to, so here are 10 really cool blog posts from this last week – not just SEO.
I will try to get a couple of more substantial posts out next week.
Posted in SEO News By David Eaves, a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
July 24th, 2008
This article has been published with Mr Fishkin of SEO Moz’s permission.
I was just reading Ciarans article about The Guardian:
Why Doesn’t The Guardian Like SEO?
I noticed Ciarans badge, saying that he is one of the judges for the SEOmoz web 2.0 awards, and for some reason I decided to check out if the awards page was doing any better, or worst on Google. It ranked between 8th and 12th on web 2.0 for a long time. But I could not find the page anywhere, and even when I typed in web 2.0 awards the page was nowhere to be seen.
I am not 100% sure why the page is not ranking, but it looks and feels like the page has been penalised or duped out. Why might Google have penalised the page? The only thing I can think of is that it might be something to do with them giving out badges to the winners that link to the awards page – this may have tripped some sort of filter.
The awards are highly successful and have generated many thousands of links back. The badges that the winners have on their sites can be found here:
If the page is properly penalised, it is a particularly harsh move by Google if you ask me. I mean people have ran awards and given out badges to the winners for years. I think this sort of marketing ads value to the web and I do not think it should be thrown in with pay day loan, text link widgetbait etc.
Also worth knowing: I am fairly sure that the awards page had a Google PageRank 7/10 not too long ago. For me it is showing up as a gray bar.
Update: SEOmoz have been in touch with Google and found out why the page has stopped ranking. In the following post Jane Copland explains what happened:
Unwritten Google Webmaster Guideline: Don’t End URLs in .0
Posted in SEO News By David Eaves, a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
June 12th, 2008
Watch-movies-links.net is without doubt the leader in online movies. The Alexa ranking for the site is in the top 500 and according to Compete, the site is getting around one point 3 million visitors per day. Why is the site doing so well? Because of good search optimisation.
In my opinion Watch-Movies-links.net is a very well optimised site and whoever created it must be a great SEO. It is easy to see why the site dominates its niche so well, it is by no means a looker but it is incredibly easy to use.
The Rating System
One of the many things that sets it apart from the competition is the rating system in place. I am not too sure weather the site is using Drupal, Wordpress or something else, but it is fantastic. Users can view ratings for or rate any of the following:
- The movies
- The copies of the movies
It sounds simple, but no other online movie site that I have seen offers ratings for both of these things, I would imagine that they really do help the users a lot.
One Page For Each Movie
Another major thing that sets this site apart is the fact that there is only ever one page for a movie. Again this sounds simple, but if you look at all of the competition, many have multiple pages for each movie. Finding the right movie is often a nightmare. With Watch-Movies-links.net you have all of the copies for each movie on a single page.
Searching The Site
Searching for the movie you are looking for could not be simpler – if you know what you want type it into the search box and it will bring it up. If you do not know what you are looking for, you can browse movies by any of the following:
- Release date
- Movie type
Also, featured movies are shown throughout the site, and when you are browsing individual movie pages related movies are shown on the right hand side.
The User Comments
Finally the comments are managed incredibly well for a site of that size, there are no swear words, the users seem to be quite friendly and their comments are generally useful.
The site does do well on Google, if you search for watch before or after many of the movie titles you will see the site coming up. However a website of this quality deserves to be ranked far higher. If you search for a movie title on its own, the site will not usually make the top few pages. If I were Google, this is what I would have the top 5 looking like for movie titles. Like Michael Gray I believe that the official movie site should be ranked no.1.
- Official movie site
- IMDB listing
- Wikipedia I suppose
- Somewhere to buy it, Amazon or something
- Watch-movies-links.net page
Movie fans would probably never have to venture outside of the top 5 results. Instead you have review after review, with the odd place where you can buy it for more money than Amazon, or whatever whoever is at #4 is charging.
Never the less, the Watch-movies.net site is a brilliant piece of work and I would imagine that using the site is absolute bliss. I am sure that sooner or later the site will start getting the credit it deserves. I challenge anyone to find me a movie fan who wouldn’t want this site to come up in the top 5 – MPAA employees don’t count.
Posted in SEO News By David Eaves, a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
June 11th, 2008
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