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Optimizing a Site in Baidu 4th January 2013 3:30 PM
Well for a start, obviously you need Chinese relevant content. Baidu also has it's own spiders and I've seen it crawling our site.

Here's a step by step guide from webconfs:

How to Optimize for Baidu

Anyone here have a good presence on Baidu? Must admit it's very tempting to build a site to target 1 billion online users! Anyone teach Mandarin?
Will SEO end In Future?? 4th January 2013 3:19 PM
“Some One told me that there is No scope in SEO Field and it is going to Finish Soon.
Is It Correct??”

Search Engine Optimisation is about optimising your web pages for a search engine.

As long as there are web pages and search engines then the art of SEO has a few more miles left in it

Now as for the spamming, gaming of search engines and the countless rogue SEO idiots out there claiming to be guru's and trying to squeeze money out of you for ropey links, that's a different story, but I suspect they will also be around for a long time as well
Redundancy time to be cut in half. 4th January 2013 2:38 PM
“Should I put this in the rants section Steve???”

Duly moved, about time we had a good rant
Which Article Sites do you recommend? 4th January 2013 2:34 PM
“Did i hear somewhere Ezineartilces got hit by Google and they dropped PR.. anyone?..”

They got hammered with the initial Panda roll out, and did a big damage limitation exercise, and a clean up. There was talk of them "no following" links to pacify Google, but this would have made the site worthless, can't remember the outcome.

Whether it's using now is open to speculation
“Has there been another up-date ?”

Yep, but the Panda stuff has become so routine few people even notice anymore Nothing specific on what it was targeting, so no doubt a bit more Panda tuning...

Official: It's Google Panda Update 23, Impacting ~1.3% Of Queries
State of the Uk plumbing industry 4th January 2013 1:58 PM
“...in the new year i have work hungry roofers coming down from Manchester and Sheffield, cat amongst the pigeons should sort it.”

lol I like your style sir
PC Building! 4th January 2013 1:52 PM
“You could always dual screen the 19"s though, I wouldn't toss those, or sell 'em. They can always come in handy. Not sure what to do with the servers tho. if you have desktops, you could use the HDD's, but that's about it.”

We already dual screen with 23" widescreens, because we are getting short sighted and blind lol

All the old office server stuff lives in the cloud now, other than laptops, we are a PC and Server free (and quiet) office!

Alienware... now had to Google that one! Making me feel old
New Years Resolutions 2013 4th January 2013 1:37 PM
Simple one... double web traffic for MLS UK..

Oh and lose 4 stone...

phew, better crack on...
“I learnt all my SEO techniques watching you tube and Matt Cutts till 4 in the morning for about 2 months, follow Matt Cutts advice and people can
Groupon model - is it flawed? 4th January 2013 1:23 PM
“It is actually a very strange business model. Your wondering how they made a loss but someone tell me how they make profit?”

I would have thought skimming off every business that puts up an offer must be lucrative, unless it really is a case they have to buy in all of their traffic and mailing lists