Just a Link Builder- Let me tell you, Link Building is ART

I recently attended an SEO networking meeting in London, where one SEO said about another guy, promoted recently to Account Manager, “you know, he used to be just a link builder”. It had been a long time since I last got so furies as I did with this comment! So what does he mean by that? That link builder is [...]

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Optimizing for Your Own Name in SERP- Ultimate Guide

Yay! I woke up this morning and addictively checked my rankings (and also all my client’s) [This is so wrong- it's SATURDAY!]. Report brought me some great news! When typed “SEO Consultant London” I found my site jumped to 2nd position on both, Google.co.uk and .com. What a joy!:) At the same time, I seriously promised myself I am NOT [...]

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The Reasons Behind Social (and Google’s Path to Social Search)

For the last few years, we have heard from many sources around us that: social media is a feature; we want to provide the most enjoyable experience online; we want to make sharing experience easier and better…etc. What actually is behind all that talk (or PR talk)? What’s the real agenda? It’s obviously all about knowing what we do/ like/want [...]

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PhpRemoteView hack: Superpuperdomain.com- How to Remove it

A few days ago a new PhpRemoteView hack, a malicious JavaScript loading from superpuperdomain.com/count.php, attacked many WordPress website, including some of mine. There are already a few discussions on this topic and it was a pretty difficult to find a reliable source how to get rid of this problem, but a few websites like tbogard.com and techspheria.com introduce interesting solutions, [...]

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Update WP Plugins and Change WordPress Password ASAP

Those of you who installed the following plugins: AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache on their self-hosted WordPress blogs, should change their WordPress passwords as soon as possible. Wordpress discovered that the mentioned plugins contains cleverly disguised backdoors. The backdoors might offer access to the dashoboard but using a different URL, and using a password known to the hacker (but [...]

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How to Make a WordPress Sidebar Smashing

Custom Wordpress Sidebar

I recently was asked to create a WordPress website with many sophisticated features. One of the requirements was to have a flexible/ customize wordpress sidebar so different widgets can be used according to the owner preferences on different posts, pages as well as categories and tags. There are a few widgets and plugins that I used and would like to [...]

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