Just Search’s Neil Walker is SEO Mad

Well it’s been a hectic few months and so a good 6 weeks since I’ve last posted on “SEO Mad“.

First of all - Happy New Year!

I’ve got a tonne of posts in my drafts so expect a flurry of articles over the next week or so but keeping on the festive note it’s time again for Manchester SEO.

Details as follows:

http://www.manchesterdda.com/rooms/.

Organised by Peter Young of Holistic Search For more details check out the Manchester SEO Group on linkedin.

Looking forward to 2010, cheers Neil

Further on from my post last month about duplicate content on Linkedin and came across it again today, what become frustrating is that they have decided to make some geographic refernces to the people on linkedin and so I came across my profile page as:

• http://uk.linkedin.com/in/internetmarketingoptimisation

However I link to the following from my blog:

• http://www.linkedin.com/in/internetmarketingoptimisation

And the final URL I discovered mentiomned in my last post was:

• http://www.linkedin.com/pub/neil-walker/4/41a/793

This now 301 redirects to my main profile page of: http://www.linkedin.com/in/internetmarketingoptimisation. So kudos for fixing that error linkedin, hopefull you can explain what is going on with the next change.

I spotted this one the other day but it’s my first chance to Blog about it. It cocerns Google “Minty fresh results”. For full details you can read Matt Cutts blog on “Minty Fresh indexing” but in brief i dicovered a Guardian post at No.11 for the keyword SEO.

The article itself was about BBC starting to use Search engine Optimisation for their news but I did see soemthing similar when the vince update kicked in to the UK. Dave Naylor wrote a post about the vince update and this had a brief period on the frist page for the term SEO.

This is interesting because if you write a good relevant post and it creates a buzz then you can that post can have a brief spot at the top of the SERP’s for competitive keywords.