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The WTF SEO Blog is where I get to post about various aspects of SEO; these posts are divided into both categories and tags to make them easier to find. The categories are just a way to show certain posts above others while the tags attack certain terms in a roundabout way.

Live Blogging is Dead: Long Live Dead Blogging

There is No Such Thing as Dead Blogging

OK, I know there is no such thing as Dead Blogging, and live blogging still has its place. Also, I love the idea of live blogging. However, when it comes to SEO, those little liveblog_entry posts are not ideal. OK, they will not have much effect, but I want to use liveblogging in a different way. Hence, Dead Blogging!

Dead blogging is different from the live version. In dead blogging, I hide the individual snippets used to create the page. Google et al. can’t see them. In live blogging, these scraps of content often find their way into the index. I don’t want this. And yes, I know I could tell Google not to index them.

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Live Blogging is Dead: Long Live Dead Blogging

Web Designer in Ringwood Telling Me I’m Wrong

I have a friend who has a website built by someone who offers Web Design in Ringwood. I pointed out to said friend that the links to the home page were incorrectly coded. So, as most of us would, he contacted the web designer guy in Ringwood and pointed out what I had said.

Alas, as is the case with numerous web designers in the past, he was told that I was wrong and it is how web designers always do it. Well, something that is technically wrong, is still technically wrong even of the whole world is doing it?

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Web Designer in Ringwood Telling Me I’m Wrong

Using Boilerplate’s & Attacking Client Based Terms such as Architect Midhurst

SEO’s should know better, yet many undertake frowned upon Local SEO techniques in order to gain clients. Two such techniques are using boilerplate’s and attacking terms that clients may use; such as Architect Midhurst.

Boilerplate’s to Attack Towns & Cities via SEO

I am really surprised that this is still happening. What a boilerplate is, is to create a webpage of content to attack a town or city. Then use the same content on another page in order to attack another town or city by just exchanging the name of the town or city with the one you want to rank for. Not sure if that reads well or not; but I am sure you get my drift.

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Using Boilerplate’s & Attacking Client Based Terms such as Architect Midhurst

SEO Services, Social Media & Digital Marketing Agency

If you have ever visit WTF SEO in the near future, you might notice a change. The words SEO Coach and SEO Consultant may well have been replaced by SEO Services, Social Media & Digital Marketing Agency. Why?

Well for years WTF SEO has been little more than a plaything; however now it needs to change. Previously, my two reasons for running the website were to rank for SEO Portsmouth and to pinpoint what I considered to be examples of poor SEO.

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SEO Services, Social Media & Digital Marketing Agency

SEO is a Racket!

Do You Need Protection?

SEO is a Racket! Do you need Protection?I get a lot of people asking me for help; most are extremely cautious due to the work of other SEO companies. They see SEO as a glorified protection racket. Sadly I have to agree with them.

Like gangland thugs; these SEO’s demand a monthly fee, initially to promote their clients websites and after a while to release them from the jaws of the rampaging black and white animals belonging to that US based mob; Google.

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SEO is a Racket!

Royal Caribbean’s Cruise1st Could be Sunk

Could Royal Caribbean’s branded websites be sunk in Google? Is Cruise1st trying to game Google in the way they are linking their domains?

OK; got your attention! I spend my day looking at websites in order to try and understand what makes them rank. Sometimes I come across something that looks suspicious. By that I mean, something that I think might go against Google’s webmaster guidelines.

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Royal Caribbean’s Cruise1st Could be Sunk

I Frame Cruise Nation

Are Cruise Nation Guilty of Gaming Google by Using IFrames in Order to Sell Cheap Cruises?

OK; this may well be off target however Cruise Nation has risen up the rankings in Google for numerous cruise-related terms; so I took a look at their link profile and am not sure if what they are doing is right.

Cruise Nation is using Iframes

Cruise Nation is using Iframes (hence “I Frame Cruise Nation”) on at least 28 websites that belong to one person whom I will not name; these websites are all hosted from one ip address.

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I Frame Cruise Nation

SEO is not Dead…it has Evolved

Why we should still call SEO, SEO!

I read an article from a local competitor that states “Why We Need To Stop Calling It SEO” yet under the title of “What is SEO” they show their lack of understanding of what SEO has become and why it is more important than ever.

SEO; or search engine optimisation to give it it’s full title is NOT just about optimising web pages to conform to Google’s et all good practises; though I will give them some credit; it is part and an important part of what SEO is about.

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SEO is not Dead…it has Evolved

The Power of Blogging; every SEO should have one!

It is amazing how powerful a blog can be. Not only for SEO; yes it can help you gain rankings if used correctly; it can also get your point across and cause change.

The WTF SEO Blog has been going for a few months now; albeit left for long periods of time while I was helping out a client who had every conceivable Google penalty under the Sun. Not my doing, mind and now corrected!

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The Power of Blogging; every SEO should have one!

10 Tips When Looking for SEO

Here are ten tips for those looking for SEO; most of this was initially posted by me on a LinkedIn thread entitled Is SEO Dead? I may add to these over time; but these will help you decide.

If you really want; you can always use me…I’m Free! Well depending on what you want to use me for; more information on this can be found on the page listing my SEO Consultant Fees.

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10 Tips When Looking for SEO

WTF SEO has Expired

WTF SEO is Closing Very Soon

The reason is the domain name has expired and is currently not set for renewal. So in a little under 3 months it will be gone!

I have decided I will be giving up the SEO consultancy game for good as fed up with client relationships etc. Don’t get me wrong; I love dealing with people but hate asking for money. Money is what drives the world but my inability to put a value on my work means I have earned very little in the last few years.

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WTF SEO has Expired

UK’s No 1 SEO Experts

False claims from SEO Experts

Before I start I will just say don’t be fooled by claims from SEO Experts about being the best! I say this because I was looking through some search terms the other day and came across a company pertaining to be the UK’s No 1 SEO Experts. I was intrigued and so as any SEO Expert would do; I visited the website. Oh and yes they were on page 10 or somewhere where organic searchers would fear to tread.

Hopefully the owners of the website (position1seo dot com) will read this and make some changes to their website; however I do not like the fact that he offers the sort of SEO packages that will get you into trouble one day…in my honest opinion that is.

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UK’s No 1 SEO Experts

Are Feefo Links, Paid for Links?

I don’t like doing this, writing about a local company; however, Feefo is in my mind, offering a paid-for link-building service to their numerous clients, including Iglu Cruises. Before I start, this is not an attack on Iglu; it just so happens I saw them on Feefo when I was doing my research. As I have mentioned before, it seemed apt to add them here.

Why do I think that Feefo are offering Paid for Links?

A straightforward one here! It is a review service; companies pay for their clients to review the service they received. Feefo collates all of these and post them on their website with a link back to that company’s website.

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Are Feefo Links, Paid for Links?

An SEO Expert Who Knows Little about SEO

I Admit it; I Know Very Little About SEO

Yet to some I am considered an SEO Expert! Could this just be an example of one of my little catchphrases where I tell people that if someone knows X about a subject and you know X+1; then you are the expert.

I no longer take on clients as I don’t want to be responsible for their livelihoods; by that I mean if I mess up it could cost them their business. I don’t feel I know enough to say; hand on heart; that what I say will always be right in the eyes of Google.

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An SEO Expert Who Knows Little about SEO

#WTFSEO to Promote WTF SEO

Using hashtags is common in Social Media; such as #wtfseo. Most companies and especially brands often add these hashtags to their posts in order to help them rank for searches associated with the terms on the social media websites such as Twitter; Google +and Facebook.

So I thought as this website is WTF SEO; why not claim…wrong word…use that hashtag in my posts? That way if anyone were to look for wtfseo on these social media websites I might show up near the top.

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#WTFSEO to Promote WTF SEO

WTF SEO a Part Time SEO Consultancy

A Part Time SEO Consultancy that mainly focuses on Travel SEO and Local SEO for Small Businesses

WTF SEO is now a Part Time SEO Consultancy that mainly focuses on Travel SEO and Local SEO for Small Businesses. The reason being that WTF SEO has a rather large contract that will take up most of my time and so I will only be able to offer smaller companies help and advice.

With moving to part time and the lack of need to rank for terms such as SEO Consultant I have no doubt that WTF SEO will start to fall from the highish rankings it now has. However; should I ever wish to go full time again and drop the part time element of the SEO consultancy then I have no doubt that these rankings will be regained rather quickly.

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WTF SEO a Part Time SEO Consultancy

Why You Should Not Try and Game Google

I have created a new blog which will cover all sorts of topics; however, I did add a post that would have been better suited on here. It is entitled The “SEO Portsmouth” Search Results are a Load of Bollocks with a subheading of; is Someone trying to game Google for SEO Portsmouth?

Why I did it was I felt that someone may have been trying to game Google and by doing so pinch possible clients off people who had worked hard to gain top rankings for a local search term; in this case SEO Portsmouth.

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Why You Should Not Try and Game Google

Travel SEO Threatened by Ninja Rival

A response to a person who read a blog post; criticised it; made wrong assumptions about myself and my SEO work; went Ninja and hid behind a false email address and phone number.

If you read between the lines you will see that on at least two occasions they have threatened me using words like “but nobody that works in SEO wants any scrutiny. Who knows which way Google will interpret these things…”

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Travel SEO Threatened by Ninja Rival

Robots Block the Selling of Cheap Cruises

No; Mars has not attacked! One element of SEO work, be it in Travel SEO or elsewhere, that is often overlooked is the Robots Txt File which should be found as an extension to any home page. For instance at domain.com/robots.txt.

This file is very important as it tells Google et al what to index; i.e. add to their search results and what not to index; these could be private folders and files on the server or even a development test area.

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Robots Block the Selling of Cheap Cruises

Will Iglu Cruise Melt?

Iglu Cruise recently took over from cruise dot co dot uk as the number one cruise travel agent website in the UK within Google search pages for terms like Cheap Cruises; but will they stay there?

I feel I need to add that as a Travel SEO, I have done some work in the past for a competitor of Iglu Cruise; namely Adore Cruises who have the sort of issues caused by having a link profile that used some techniques mentioned below.

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Will Iglu Cruise Melt?