Feb
17

The Top Six Social Media Trends for 2011

2010 was a fantastic year for social media growth and adoption. Through the course of the year we have witnessed Facebook overtake Google in most weekly site traffic, while some surveys reported nearly 95% of companies using LinkedIn to help in recruiting efforts. The use of social media through mobile devices increased well over 100% …

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Feb
16

Manual Link Building

Manual Link Building – what is it and how it can benefit your SEO strategy. Many companies are popping up, especially in that technical hotspot Manchester in the north west of the UK, but what services do they offer and why are some a con? I recently came across this service provider offering a Link …

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Feb
16

Google on how and when ranking penalties are removed

Google’s Matt Cutts has posted a video that describes how and when Google will remove a search ranking penalty for a site. Matt explains there are two groupings of penalties a site can receive in Google. (1) Manual Penalties, such as reports submitted to Google for things like off topic porn and things like that. …

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