Laser Focus–my Mantra for 2012

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Laser Focus–Make it Your Watchword for 2012 I totally agree with the trend back towards FOCUS, as opposed to ‘multi-tasking’, which is the modus operandi of anyone who is easily distracted by the latest shiny new thing. In fact, I’m making it a major part of my business plan for 2012 to learn to focus. [...]

Should I Let My Inner Child Run Riot?

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Almost a year-and-a-half ago I took a decision that was to have far-reaching consequences on every area of my life. It’s the main reason you won’t have been reading much of my writing lately. Quite Out of Character For Me… After twenty years of freelance consulting I arbitrarily, and quite uncharacteristically decided to accept an [...]

7 Strategies for a Must-Read Blog

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Bloggers-Make Every Post Count If you blog, it’s important to write firstly because you just want to. You have something inside you that needs to be said. But in order to have a successful blog there are some parameters that need to be met. Only blog when you ‘ve got something to say (that means [...]

Do You Realize What Kind of an SEO You’re Dealing With?

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Nope, not a cliffhanger! Some of you may have wondered if I’ve slipped over the edge of a cliff somewhere. It’s been so long since I posted.  Or perhaps you were wondering if I’d given it all up and gone to live in Katmandu? Let me reassure you that I’m still here, and still battling. [...]

Cloaking 101

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Cloaking: Nefarious form of Black Hat Of all the various methods of getting a website to show further up in search results, cloaking is the one  that’s pretty much unanimously regarded as ‘Black Hat.’ There are some pertinent reasons why this is so. But first, what exactly is cloaking? Here’s Google’s definition: Cloaking refers to [...]

Why WordPress Can Help Your Business…

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This is a follow-on post for my post on the Rise of the Blog as a Business Gateway over at SEOscoop. If you read the post and the comments you will see that Glenn over at Divinewrite raised so many good points that I realized I’d left out some important information. More About WordPress and [...]

7 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Me…

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I got tagged for this back on January 25th by Neal Jansen over at The Puck Writes but I only just saw it: Sorry Neal! The Rules for This Particular Meme * Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post. (see above) * Share seven facts about yourself in the post. [...]

Spam by any other name….

Is a spammer stealing your traffic?

Is a spammer stealing your traffic? For those of you who hate it when I’m in a bad mood, RANT ALERT! I woke up this morning to find this on my blog: Hi, let me first tell you this not spam.i am a real person sitting at a real desk.I am Rajeev Mahadevan from India.I [...]

Guest Posting for Links: Singing for Your Supper

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My Big Announcement It won’t be news to you that one of the best way to get quality backlinks is guest posting for a website with complimentary content to what’s on your website. In reality of course, if you pick your guest posting venues carefully you get a whole lot more out of the deal [...]

A day in the life of a WordPress-obsessed SEO

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I have been offline for a while because my ISP had a technical problem that affected a whole batch of DSL subscribers. FAIL. Back to Business! So when I finally got back online I had a whole pile of work to catch up on. I only had three-and-a-half hours sleep last night. But so far [...]

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