SEOibiza – The Ancient Ibicenco Combat Arts
This will only make sense to SEOs, but it’s pretty funny. One imagines this scene must have been played out in 200 languages in boardrooms worldwide from April 24th onwards.
So, moving forwards, if, in light of Hitler’s revelations, anybody needs a good content writer, even though content is still not king we would like to recommend an online pal called Rob.
here is his website www.writing-resources.org
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Ok so the results youve all been waiting for are in. After several slack-arse but fairly conclusive tests we can now announce:
Links still work and exact match domains still work, EMDs better than ever in fact.
so enough whining and despondence, its all good, crack on.
As you were.
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So this is one of our SEO experiments posts, absent from the site for quite some time now, because although almost every post usually contains some form of experimentation one way or another, it’s been quite a while since we did one specifically for the purpose, as far back as the good old days of the ”brand new SXO” or the SEO Scotland testing (remember that? :) )
So this post has been prompted by some interesting new “SEO information” ie:
Apparently the only people who think that links do affect rankings are either outdated and don’t know what they’re talking about, or are just pumping their SEO linking software (SEOMoz for example)
Seriously, .. No BS SEO <— here – that’s (one of) the test links that will apparently make no difference to rankings of the page.
So, far be it from us to go round starting on people on the internet (very much any more 
) but when you:
In the end, your luck will run out and someone will probably call you out..
Well, as it should happen, since the very first inception of this site back in 2007, we have done nothing but test with it one way and another, and many rankings put in place all the way back in 2008/09 are still there (some above people who would generally be regarded as very much better known and qualified than us) like this..
Now we know these are not “competitive” keywords, as in people are building lots of powerful links to try and get past us, and we are also fairly confident that Mr Martinez would not approve of our “SEO scientific” methods much either, however as most of the “serious” testing really stopped in 2009, and most of the test rankings still remain..
..And this through countless Google updates, 2 full site rebuilds, multiple URL changes, changes to GEO targeting (and back again) and much more besides.. ..all in the way of SEO testing, with lots of stuff we have talked about – ie advanced WordPress SEO user tactics..
But also lots of more experimental trickery going on under the hood from time to time that doesn’t get more than hinted at, and only ever discussed with peers in private, so it’s probably fair to say we have a reasonable idea what is involved in ranking in the SERPs?
And we are categorically stating that quality Links definitely affect rankings and that we are going to use our know how and resources to squash this utter BS SEO information here and now, before too many people get suckered in by it and waste time and money on all the wrong things in SEO.
New business plan required amigo.. 
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Lots of SEOs think they are rock stars, but that’s not what were talking about here. It’s actually been quite a long time since we’ve felt the need to blog about SEO, and have been super-busy on lots of our own projects as always, but felt that this one was probably worth a mention.
We’ve stated before that Ibiza is an amazing place to live and work, and that had we stayed in London and been called “SEO Clapham”, (for example) that things might not have worked out quite the same, and this is a perfect example.. Back in August, the phone rang, and was answered:
“Hello, is that SEO Ibiza?”
- Yes indeed, how can we help?
“Hi, it’s Andy Taylor, I’ve been recommended to you by Ade (Ibiza blog) “
Well it’s got to be said that it’s not every day that one of your childhood heroes (Duran Duran) ring you up out of the blue.. only in Ibiza in fact.
So (bizarrely enough) it turns out Andy is already a bit of a WordPress expert, (arent all Rockstars? ) but was getting frustrated with the limitations of Wordpress.com because he is working with a pioneering new system called Topspin which allows artists to market and sell their products directly to the customer, thereby cutting out the (broadly hated) middlemen (record companies)
But WordPress hosted systems don’t allow you to do what he wants to do, and so a few months and lots of design tweaking (by Ade) later we are (slightly surreally) happy to announce and soft launch:
Now we just have to get it past the other 38 million or so sites about Duran Duran..
Watch this space..
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