Posts Tagged ‘seo’


Doorway Page (spam) Detection?

Author: Oliver Phillips, Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Anyone following my blog will know my frustration, shared by my clients, and many thousands of other webmasters no doubt, in relation to doorway page spamming.  It is against the Google Webmaster Guideines, yet it is dominant in many search results.
My stance is DON’T go that route  - instead build a better resource, write more unique and high quality content; [...]

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Hmm…Nobody is listening at Google

Author: Oliver Phillips, Wednesday, December 3, 2008

I see this sort of thing time and time again. “Many hours were spent building this website to comply with Google Webmaster Guidelines, yet we languish below other businesses’ websites in our sector that are still spamming Google with doorway pages, hidden text, and text designed for spiders not users - can you help?”
To be [...]

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Only natural links are good links

Author: Oliver Phillips, Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Google is getting more and more sophisticated in its ability to detect dubious SEO practices they frown upon - whether done by intention or by accident.
Doorway pages, cloaking, and hidden text are old hat now and rarely effective, although it annoys me to see some sites still getting away with these techniques. The current big issue [...]

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We don’t do SEO

Author: Oliver Phillips, Saturday, September 6, 2008

SEO or to call it by name, Search Engine Optimisation, is the process by which a website is made more attractive to the search engines, the aim being a higher position in search results on key terms which relate to the website, resulting in more traffic to the website.
I get loads of people asking about SEO, or [...]

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