Archive for the ‘Link Building’ Category

Google Downgrades Google’s Listing For Breaking Google’s Rules

5, Jan 2012

the strange clicking noise was yesterday, you’ll be happy to find out that it wasn’t a swarm of crickets outside your house. No, it was every SEO in the world tutting loudly after Google was found to have breached Google’s own rules on buying links.

Is SEO Prominent Enough on Your To-Do List?

10, Jan 2011

Today marks the first full week of work following the laid-back Christmas period. To-do lists are being drawn up, plans for the year are being finalised, and everyone’s knuckling down to making sure that 2011 is as profitable and successful as possible. But are you placing enough importance on one of the key marketing tactics [...]

Is Social Bookmarking Still Relevant for SEO?

20, Oct 2010

Before the first ever Tweet, before FourSquare checked into the scene and before Facebook became the all-encompassing behemoth that it is now, there was social bookmarking. SEOs loved social bookmarking websites. They were easy to use, passed along some authority and generated huge amounts of traffic. Then, slowly, the social bookmarking sites started to implement [...]

Blog Comment Etiquette

29, Sep 2010

Leaving comments on relevant and well regarded blogs is a link building technique that divides opinions. Some people claim it will have no effect on listings, others swear by it. What is true though, is that a well-written comment will drive traffic towards your site, regardless of whether your search engine listings benefit. But just [...]

Toolbar PageRank – A Key Link Building Tool?

2, Sep 2010

Google’s Toolbar PageRank (PR) has a mixed reputation amongst SEOs. Some say that it is deliberately misleading, as it has no relation the PageRank algorithm that determines listings. Others however, find a use for it. Here at the FirstFound Blog, we’ve found that it can be useful in identifying sites to request links from. PageRank [...]

Is Your Company Website Making These Fatal Mistakes?

16, Apr 2010

“SEO isn’t a matter of life and death. It’s much more important than that.” Ok, that’s not exactly what Bill Shankly said, but that’s because he wasn’t an SEO. Optimising your website might not literally be a matter of life and death, but poor SEO can be fatal to your online aspirations. If your website [...]

5 Tips for an Effective SEO Link Building Campaign

18, Jan 2010

The top 5 most important considerations for an effective link building campaign from naturally generated links won for good content, to social media and creative link building strategies to future proof your search engine optimisation strategy for 2010.


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