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Buying backlinks 2016

April 4, 2016 by Peter Wordpress SEO Expert

Buying backlinks 2016 Wordpress SEO Expert

It’s been a while since I wrote a post about backlinks. But it’s always worth re-iterating this.

In short, my stance on these has only become stronger, because Google has become even more clever.

The shortest answer to the backlink question is that having backlinks is very beneficial.

But the longer answer is actually more important. Google has become incredibly adept at working out which backlinks are natural (i.e., someone liked your site and linked to it) as opposed to bought, meaning you paid for them.

Natural backlinks help your SEO, generally speaking. As for manipulated ones, once Google realises what you’ve done (which can take a few months) they will usually hurt your rank, often quite drastically.

There are a lot of people selling what they called “safe” links, or “Google friendly links”. In truth Google is very clear that any attempt to buy or create links is contrary to their ethos and something they will try to find and penalise you for.

And they are very good at it.

The reason people still sell them is a quirk of Google’s algorithm. When Google first see new links come in for a site they will almost always improve that sites ranking. It’s not until they’ve seen the patterns emerge and they realise they were faked links that they penalise you.

So when someone first buys links they usually do see an improvement, and feel happy with the service that made them. Months later when their site takes a hit—it’s too late.

So, are backlinks good? Absolutely. Should you try to have them created on your behalf? Absolutely not.

Filed Under: Backlinks, Google, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Playing around with making sites Accelerated Mobile Pages…

March 1, 2016 by Peter Wordpress SEO Expert

Playing around with making sites Accelerated Mobile Pages compliant.

Filed Under: Nerd-stream, Uncategorized Tagged With: google, mobile, search, search engine optimisation, seo

I just reduced a client’s website loading time…

February 19, 2016 by Peter Wordpress SEO Expert

I just reduced a client’s website loading time by 95%!

Filed Under: Nerd-stream, Uncategorized Tagged With: clients, speed, wordpress

I was having all kind of trouble installing…

February 18, 2016 by Peter Wordpress SEO Expert

I was having all kind of trouble installing Ubuntu Server today. I tried writing the disc image to a USB in a variety of ways, but it kept failing at various points of the install, check disks never succeeded, and I couldn’t help but notice I wasn’t even seeing a couple of the screens I expected too.

Over lunch I found this:

Due to changes in syslinux, it is not currently possible to use usb-creator from 14.04 and earlier releases to write USB images for 15.04 or later; we believe that it is also not possible to use usb-creator from a 15.04 or later system to write USB images for earlier releases. For now the workaround is to use a matching release of Ubuntu to write the images, but we intend to issue updates soon to work around this incompatibility

So the issue was the computer I was creating the USB on wasn’t compatible with the Ubuntu server image I was creating.

Here’s the solution:

  1. Right click your ubuntu-15.10-desktop-amd64.iso > Open with Disk Image writer
  2. Choose your usb drive and click Start Restoring… and follow the instruction.

Filed Under: Nerd-stream, Uncategorized Tagged With: install, server, ubuntu, usb

Staring at a computer screen when you’ve got…

February 15, 2016 by Peter Wordpress SEO Expert

Staring at a computer screen when you’ve got conjunctivitis sucks.

Filed Under: Nerd-stream, Uncategorized

I actually made this site over a year…

February 12, 2016 by Peter Wordpress SEO Expert

I actually made this site over a year ago, but the clients has only been in a position to put it live now:

Home – Fusion Builder Version 13Mar17

Filed Under: Nerd-stream, Uncategorized Tagged With: new site, wordpress

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