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  • What is ethical SEO?

    Ethical SEO What is ethical ?

    Ethical optimisation has become somewhat of a buzz word in recent years but what exactly does it mean?

    In a nutshell ethical is any practice that might help to improve your rankings naturally while staying within the guidelines of the popular engines. Techniques such as viral marketing and producing exciting content are good examples of ethical whereas link buying and lots of to your pages would be unethical.

    When we take on a new client here at Branded3 the first step is to make sure the site adheres to the guidelines and doesn’t have things such as hidden text or doorway pages that might have been added to the site in the past (we have seen this on a number of occasions). These can be discovered by the engines at any time and could result in your domain being blacklisted.

    Once the site is clean we work within the guidelines to improve rankings in a sustainable manner. That mean that once your site reaches the top it stays there rather than disappearing after a few weeks.

    Most people believe that relies 100% on their famous algorithm to rank the results but they are increasingly using human editors and taking notice of spam reports to improve results. This means that if a low quality or sneaky site using unethical techniques suddenly starts highly for a competitive query it is likely to be reported by a competitor or found by one of the thousands of editors employed by . Once this happens your future rankings are in the hands of one person who may or may not decide to move your site down a few places.

    As becomes better at figuring out which should be highly a lot of companies that have used deceptive techniques will see their rankings start to drop dramatically. is quite happy to penalise large and has banned both BMW and Ricoh from the results in the past.

    Ethical . Get to number one and stay there.

    Before you decide to hire a optimisation company we recommend meeting them in person and taking a read of the information about SEO companies.

    Here are some key points to remember:

    • Talk to many SEOs, and ask other SEOs if they’d recommend the firm you’re considering.
    • Be wary of firms and web consultants or agencies that send bulk emails.
    • No one can guarantee a #1 on .
    • Be careful if a company is secretive or won’t clearly explain what they intend to do.
    • You should never have to link to an .
    • Some SEOs may try to sell you the ability to type directly into the browser address bar.
    • Choose wisely.
    • Be sure to understand where the goes.
    • Make sure you’re protected legally (choosing a company in the same country as your business helps in this respect)
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  • Configure Web Logs in Apache

    Author’s Note: While most of this piece discusses configuration options for any operating system supports, some of the content will be Unix/ (*nix) specific, which now includes Macintosh OS X and its underlying Unix kernel.

    One of the many pieces of the Website puzzle is Web logs. analysis is central to most Websites, and the key to getting the most out of your analysis revolves around how you your Web logs. is one of the most — if not the most — powerful solutions for Website . You will find that ’s Web logging features are flexible for the single Website or for managing numerous domains requiring Web log analysis.

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    engines use complicated secret formulas, called algorithms, to determine the order of their results.

    The profession is an upstart one, with no degrees to be earned or widely accepted canon of literature (and if there were, it’d change every five months anyway).

    So we’re all out there trying to figure this stuff out on our own, using different test cases, chasing morphing engines, and possessing varying levels of interest and talent in the writing and technical of .
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  • Using Google Analytics to understand your farm website measure Since you spend precious time keeping your farm website fresh, you need to determine how effective your website is in engaging . What do they come to your site from? What are they searching for on engines when they visit? Do they visit from bookmarks or email referrals? How long do they stay when they visit? What pages do they like the best?

    All of these questions can be answered using a web analytics package. The standard these days is Google Analytics mainly because it is , but also because it is a very impressive piece of that provides lots of detail on your website and it integrates well into other services.

    Over the next few weeks, we are going to delve into using Analytics to understand the to your farm website. What’s bounce rate? How many a day is a good rate? What is a referral? Click here to get updates right in your inbox when we update the blog.

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