6 Common SEO Mistakes to Avoid

After years in SEO, I’ve seen thousands of websites and audited hundreds of them. After a while, one starts to notice trends. The same basic SEO errors are repeated over and over. Most of these are easy to find and fix, the kinds of things that any decent SEO consultant should be aware of. If you have a site and don’t have an SEO consultant, these are a few of the things you can quickly go and check yourself. If you do have an SEO...

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Google celebrates 15th birthday : 15 things you didn't know

September marks 15 years since graduates Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up a small web crawler from a garage in Silicon Valley, which went onto become the world's biggest search engine. The site was originally called BackRub, but was changed in 1997 to Google - a misspelling of the word googol which is a term for the number one followed by one hundred zeros. There is a little confusion around when Google's official birthday is, but...

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Happy Birthday Penguin!!!

Happy Birthday Google's Penguin Update Today is the one year birthday/anniversary of the release of Google's Penguin update - it was released on April 24, 2012. Since then, we've had two additional updates of it on May 24, 2012 and then on October 5, 2012. Now we await the fourth update which is expected to be really big sometime this year. This update was felt by more SEOs...

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