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  1. Stephen

    Looking for good outsource for article writing

    A +1 for @stackcash and his Wordagents.com - reliable, sensibly priced and great quality.
  2. Stephen

    Google being fined as much as $3 billion in EU Antitrust case

    I agree with the above, to me it is like going into your local library in town and complaining about the colour of the walls inside.
  3. Stephen

    What to do if some one blast lots of garbage links to you website

    Do you have a manual penalty or have you been hit algorithmically? It really depends on what has actually happened as to recovery time and what you need to do next!
  4. Stephen

    What to do if some one blast lots of garbage links to you website

    Clean-up your link profile before starting any new link building. 404 pages, use disavow and request links are removed. If you get a manual penalty Google are going to want to see proper proof you have done a good effort to clean-up and not just disavow.
  5. Stephen

    RIP PR

    It has been dead a lot longer, just now Toolbar is zero! Finally!!!! :-)
  6. Stephen

    Are there known footprints for eCommerce platforms?

    There is also a nice little pluggin for Chrome that will tell you in many instances what a site is using, it is called Built With
  7. Stephen

    Copy & Paste "Competitor", how to handle?

    Another option, is he doing anything better than you at all? If so, are his skills or ideas something you had not thought of or executed so well, could he/she an asset to you on your team? Sometimes it makes sense to make friends and not enemies when it comes to business. One thing I would do...
  8. Stephen

    Do you use a daily planner?

    I use Trello a lot for specific projects, but on a day to day basis I use this http://www.basicsproducts.com/pages/notebook and I have to say I'm very pleased with it.
  9. Stephen

    What's the first few things you invest in on a new site?

    I start with content, you can't really proceed with links with nothing to point the too, but before I do any of that I spend quite a bit of time with keyword research, planning site architecture and getting the branding looking right. It will make link prospecting and building an audience much...
  10. Stephen

    You Ever Bit Off More Than You Could Chew?

    I'm currently in a niche that was easy to work but has become much harder and now my business goals have had to be pushed back by years to get to domination. Frustrating but that is the way it goes.
  11. Stephen

    Introductions Thread

    I would echo the value of agency experience. I have worked client-side, agency-side and running my own gigs and in big big start-ups. But working in agencies is where I always found I learnt the most and to that end I work one day a week at an agency for no other reason than to keep some form of...
  12. Stephen

    Meta Title Basics

    I am not wasting space, I was just pointing out that it is better to optimise Page Titles by pixel width and not character counts.
  13. Stephen

    Meta Title Basics

    Is it not better to use pixel width as the parameter for Page Title length? seeing as different characters are different pixel width.
  14. Stephen

    Do "Read More" buttons negatively affect SEO?

    Didn't Google recently state that content that is not visible to the user will not be used by Google, as many sites were using tabbed or accordion style formatting to roll in more content for SEO.
  15. Stephen

    Why do people say not to target lots of longtails?

    In my experience websites that focus on a small set of keywords and obsess over them are normally the ones that end up either being hit by the Google Penguin algorithm or being penalised manually. The best approach is to research the widest possible set of terms that are relevant to your...
  16. Stephen

    Google hires 4chan founder Moot to revive Google+

    Google+ is the unwanted child of the Google family, I think they would have to do something radical with it for it start growing as a network again.
  17. Stephen

    How many sites do I build?

    Just build the one with the strongest opportunities for you and use laser focus.
  18. Stephen

    Facebook introduces Reactions

    I like it and I think it is good, they missed one reaction thought IMAO.... Stupid!
  19. Stephen

    What are you listening to?

    It's all about Kush Sessions for me kushsessions.com
  20. Stephen

    Apple refuses to hack themselves

    I think this is the best thing Tim Cook has done, the rest of his tenure has been a bit meh. Nice to see other tech giants supporting it too.
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