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Comment on How To Choose An SEO Company by David

David — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:57:18 +0000

Hello Carl,

Sorry to hear you are ending 2011 on such a poor note, I tried looking at your website but it appears to be down, if this is a constant problem, I’ve found this can impact on your rankings as Google is getting faster at removing sites from it’s index that aren’t always accessible.

You need to understand how much time was spent on SEO activities each month, ie I know insurance groups that are spending tens of thousands each month so their competitors will continue to fall further and further behind unless they match or exceed that investment. Some SEO companies spend that on purely $ and some are tracked by hours.

Another area to understand next time is what % of activities are done on-page vs off-page… there is only so many times you can optimise a page title and good quality links do take time to acquire/build.

Disclosure I don’t have any relationship with the web clinic.

David

Comment on How To Choose An SEO Company by Roger

Roger — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:14:38 +0000

Hi Carl, Sorry to hear about your news just be Christmas. Looks like someone is building backlinks to your site, there was a big increase in October but most links came from a site wide link on one directory so this probably didn’t help much.
Let us know how you get on, I hope they don’t get away with this, good luck.

Roger

Comment on How To Choose An SEO Company by Carl

Carl — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:19:06 +0000

Hi Guys

Just wanted to update you on the http://www.thewebclinic.co.uk, they are now taking me to court for two outstanding monthly payments. They have passed my company name to a debt recovery agency who has added our name to a credit blacklist unless we pay within 7 days.

I am contesting the payment as they did not improve my rankings as they guaranteed, in fact two of them went backwards and two were not even ranked by Google. I also got an email from my account manager Tony Haslam confirming that some of their staff is based in India!!!

Totally shafted and bailiffs letters just before Christmas!!!

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Comment on Easy Guide To Create Your Own URL Shortener by Curtis

Curtis — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:06:39 +0000

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Comment on Taking a Blogging Hiatus by Jon

Jon — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:13:11 +0000

There’s a lot of good info on the web; somewhere like Seomoz would be a good place to start. Good luck!

Comment on Is Affiliate Skimming Still An Issue In 2010? by roger

roger — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:53:19 +0000

Great article very well researched and explained a great deal to me in regards to affiliate “skimming”
thanks

Comment on Is Affiliate Skimming Still An Issue In 2010? by Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:11:55 +0000

Great article, having worked on both sides of the fence, in an aff program and later as an affiliate, you always hear lots of stories re skimming, but as stated, the position the affiliate is in, means that its best just to move on if you feel there is an issue. There are so many other brands out there to promote.

Comment on How To Choose An SEO Company by Roger

Roger — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:21:01 +0000

Hi Ewan,

Getting a bit off topic here but this is my take on the difference. Majestic figures are “link Discovery” so these figures show all links they have found over the period and will still count if they no longer exist. Yahoo’s figures should only show links that where found on their last crawl. There are rumours that Yahoo is going to shut down Site Explorer soon and they are advising people to use Bing Webmaster tools so more and more people are switching the Majestic and other tools for backlink information.
Final thought, if the majestic numbers are high and the yahoo figures are low this may indicate that there have been many temporary backlinks.

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Comment on How To Choose An SEO Company by Ewan Kennedy

Ewan Kennedy — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:43:22 +0000

Hi again Roger,

I should have added that I checked Karl’s back links using DMoz’s Open Site Explorer Tool and that gave a similar picture to Yahoo Site Explorer. I assume therefore that Majestic is including a whole tonne of low grade links being discounted by the other tools. Any thoughts on that i.e. the inconsistency in the results you observed yourself?