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The Evolution of SEO in New Zealand

Bill Hartzer

In the mid to late 2000s, it was possible to write lots of keyword rich articles, submit them to article directories such as Ezinearticles.com and get them highly ranked in a short time. When Panda was implemented, however, the tactic of blasting articles to directories became virtually useless.

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Conquering Big Industries: My Bulletproof SEO Strategy

Viper Chill

Directory Submissions By nature, directory links are of a very poor quality. Sometimes I’ll also pay $100 or so to BOTW.org which is a human-filtered directory which can give me some great link juice. As soon as I’m cached in this directory I find my rankings to increase almost instantly.

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Help! My Baby is Sick and Someone is Stealing My Money!

ProBlogger

I noted, as usual that mobile visitors represented about twenty percent of my overall traffic, split roughly 50/50 between tablets and smart-phones, which is exactly what I would expect from reading the latest tech news headlines. Smart-phone users aren’t quite so keen to buy stuff, yet. Mobile is growing like crazy.