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Has your Wordpress blog been hacked? Ours was! Find out if yours is now!

Date: 26th June 2008
Comments: 1 Related Categories: Blogging, Bonus Tips
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A few weeks ago we suffered at the hands of hackers – they’ve been targeting popular SEO sites, so maybe i should have been flattered?

Well I would have been if they hadn’t decided to place ads for all sorts of things I didn’t want my readers seeing ads for!

Withe the help of friendly ecademist Nick Braak we soon got the site up and running again (although we’re still working to add in some pages that were lost).

There’s a great tip on blogstorm today telling you how to use Google Alerts to find out if you have been hacked.  Read more...

Tags: blackhat seo, blogstorm, google alerts, hacked, matt cutts, nick braak
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From the horse’s (well, Google’s) mouth.

Date: 25th June 2008
No Comments Related Categories: Blogging, Bonus Tips, Content, Freebies, Google, Links, Titles & Tags
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USA Today recently interviewed Google’s Matt Cutts and he shared his top tips for getting listed in Google. No surprises, to be honest, but I thought I’d share :)

  1. Spotlight your search term on the page.
  2. Fill in your tags.
  3. Get other sites to link back to you.
  4. Create a blog and post often.
  5. Register for free Google tools.
  6. Don’t overdo it!

More here >>>

Tags: Google, internet marketing, listed in google, matt cutts, search engines, seo
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Ten sites Nikki Pilkington visits for Business every day

Date: 24th June 2008
No Comments Related Categories: Domain names, Social Networking, Tracking, Uncategorized
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A quick insight into the sites I visit on a daily basis:

1) Search Engine Watch – the first site dedicated to search engines, and still the best. Originally started by Danny Sullivan in 1996 (he resigned in 2006), this is a great site to find out the latest search engine stats, search engine news and more.  Read more...

Tags: business, ecademy, get clicky, Google, matt cutts, nikki pilkington
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Bonus Tip@ Webmaster Guidelines updated!

Date: 4th June 2008
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Matt Cutts of Google fame posts on his blog that Google have changed some of their documentation relating to the SEO do and don’ts in Webmaster guidelines.

Changes have been made to documentation regarding robots.txt, cloaking and IP delivery, nofollow links, doorway pages and more.

You can read the post here .

As one of our 299 Steps to Website Heaven tips is to regularly review Webmaster Guidelines, it’s nice to see them being updated after user feedback!

Tags: cloaking, doorway, Google, matt cutts, nofollow, robots.txt, seo, webmaster guidelines
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