Category Archives: SEO Tips & Tricks

A Reciprocal Link Building Strategy that Works

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on November 18, 2007. Filed under Link Building, SEO Tips & Tricks. 1 Comment.

If you’re stuggling to gain links pointing to your website then you might want to try this technique. Email the owner of a site that is similar to yours in content and ask them for a reciprocal link but here’s the trick, instead of asking them for a straight reciproacal link (ie I link to yours from [...]

Recovering from Google’s 950 Penalty

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on October 31, 2007. Filed under SEO Tips & Tricks. No comments.
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A few weeks ago I wrote about Google’s 950 penalty and gave an off the cuff solution to fixing it.  Well it turns out that Google has now offered an official solution to recover from their dreaded 950 penalty, and what do you know… it resides in their very own Google webmaster tools. Google are now offering [...]

Buying your Name’s Domain Name

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on October 29, 2007. Filed under SEO Tips & Tricks. No comments.

Do you own your name’s domain name? If you don’t then this is the time to do so. I bought my name’s domain name 4 months ago (omarkattan.com) and have been developing it as a search blog ever since. The main benefit of owning your name’s domain name (especially the .com one) is that it [...]

Changing Charatcteristics of a File – Static to Dynamic

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on October 22, 2007. Filed under Code, SEO Tips & Tricks. No comments.

Did you know that you are able to change the characteristics of a static file such as a .html or .txt file to allow it to accept dynamic code such as php or asp?  Well you can, here’s how… Lets say you’re looking to create a dynamic .csv  or .txt for a shopping feed for one of the [...]

Purchasing Links – A Best Practice Guide

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on October 17, 2007. Filed under Link Building, SEO Tips & Tricks. 1 Comment.

If you’re deciding to purchase links to boost your link popularity (I know I know, its against Google’s rules, but hey everyone’s doing it!) make sure you purchase the links for a long period of time. The longer the better. There are a few things to consider when purchasing links: As mentioned above, go for [...]