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Tip #130 – You’re my favourite waste of time

Date: 17th March 2008
No Comments Related Categories: Links, No no no!, Uncategorized
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Another mistake lots of people make – submitting to 1000+ search engines.

Only surpassed by the people that promise to submit your site to 1000+ search engines for you for ‘just $19.95’.

Here’s some news – there AREN’T 1000 search engines. Most of the traffic that comes via search engines comes from ten main search engines. Google, MSN, AOL and Yahoo make up the bulk, Lycos, Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, Hotbot, Follow on, and any one of about 5 smaller engines make up the rest.

What you WILL get from those 1000+ submissions is spam …. And lots of it.  Read more...

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Can you Digg us? Yes you can!

Date: 14th March 2008
No Comments Related Categories: Admin posts, Blogging, Bonus Tips, Content, Cool Tools, Domain names, Free Listings, Freebies, Google, Key Phrases, Links, No no no!, Social Networking, Titles & Tags, Tracking
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You’ll notice a funky new button on the right hand side of this page, below the blurb about 299 Steps to Website Heaven – that’s a Digg button and we’d love it if you could add us to your Digg account.

Haven’t got a Digg account? Why on earth not? That was one of the 299 Steps to Website Heaven!

Thanks to all of you lovely readers who decide to Digg us, in addition to those of you that have Stumble-d Us, Delicious-ed us and Facebooked us!

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tip #111 – the invisible man

Date: 13th March 2008
No Comments Related Categories: Google, Key Phrases, No no no!, Uncategorized
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White text on a white background, black text on a black background – just don’t do it!

Website owners do this to stuff the page with keywords, but because they’re the same colour as the background, casual visitors can’t see them, only search engine spiders.

Google doesn’t like it; it’s classed as spamming, and will get you into trouble

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Tip #123 – Hand-le it yourself

Date: 27th February 2008
No Comments Related Categories: Google, No no no!
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It’s tempting to used automated submission tools that promise they ‘know the secrets that will get you to the top’ – trust me, they don’t!

However much time you think you will save generating pages with these tools and then submitting to thousands of search engines and directories, believe me, you won’t.

All you’ll get is spam and a possible ban from the important search engines.

Submit to Google et al by hand, not through software; it’s really not worth the risk. (Even better, get a decent link on a decent site and you won’t need to submit at all)  Read more...

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Tip #215 – Point it out

Date: 24th January 2008
No Comments Related Categories: Domain names, No no no!
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It doesn’t matter if you own 5, 50 or 500 domains – buying all the domains in the world to point at your site in an attempt to get higher Google listings won’t help you.

In general when you buy a domain and point it to another domain, it will probably be done in one of two ways ; META refresh redirection or frames. (There is another way to redirect domains, which we’ll cover later, but it still won’t help your SEO)

Now, what happens when you submit the spangly new domain name to Google and it comes along?  Read more...

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