There is a lot of speculation concerning the influence of rank tracking on the reported search volume of keywords. In this experiment, I took two very closely related keywords which were initially not seen as two separate keywords by Google …
Rank Tracking Experiment: Search Volume
Posted by IrishWonder
on May 17, 2018
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Rank Tracking Experiment: Negative Queries
Posted by IrishWonder
on April 25, 2018
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Do negative queries have influence on rankings of a site? I decided to run a test and check if rank tracking for a phrase like [generic keyword] -[brand] would influence the rankings of said brand in the [generic keyword] SERPs. …
Hacked Joomla, Link Spam and Negative SEO Fears
Posted by IrishWonder
on February 8, 2018
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Recently, igaming affiliates have been complaining about something that to many of them looks like negative SEO against their sites. A number of people have reported seeing links to their sites from pages that look like this: However, this is …
Creative SEO Is Far From Dead
Posted by IrishWonder
on January 6, 2018
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Or the story of sneaking into one super competitive Google SERP I came up with this post idea last month when working on two articles for two igaming publications. One was for Trafficology about SEO and linkbuilding in the modern …
Top Domain Registrars and What It Means to You
Posted by IrishWonder
on January 30, 2016
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The first decision one has to make when registering a new domain is what registrar to choose – and with close to 2,000 registrars existing today, we should be spoilt for choice, right? But the current distribution of existing domains …
CTR Manipulation Myths vs Reality
Posted by IrishWonder
on October 29, 2015
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CTR has been turning into an increasingly more powerful ranking factor in Google over the last few years so naturally, people started trying to gamble it. Consequently, Google started trying to fight the manipulation. Hence, I will try to post …
35 Ways To Burn Your Private Network
Posted by IrishWonder
on April 1, 2015
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Private networks (or private blog networks – but they don’t necessarily have to be all blogs) are a great (albeit a bit expensive when done properly) way to take a shortcut on link building efforts if you’re fine with a …
Look Google, No Links – Or a Recipe for a Major Disaster
Posted by IrishWonder
on September 10, 2014
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I know quite a few people who read this blog are involved in gambling, either as operators or as affiliates. So here’s a question: name the largest gambling affiliate site as of today? Good try everyone. Now the surprising bit. …
Don’t Buy GSA Lists: a Quick Market Analysis
Posted by IrishWonder
on August 15, 2014
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I am not going to explain what GSA Search Engine Ranker is – the target audience of this post knows it very well. Being the most advanced and flexible link automation tool as of today, I’m afraid it has become …
“Buy Viagra” SERPs of No Priority to Google
Posted by IrishWonder
on November 8, 2013
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Dear Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice, you have been hacked. Not only have you been hacked, at least 218 pages you probably have no knowledge of have been placed on your server, all targeting all sorts of pharma …
