Jul 04
Running dozens/hundreds of websites can be an expensive business, hosting alone can cost upwards of $250 a year for each site. SEOs will often look to host each website on a different IP range or in a totally different country. You may want to host country-specific sites in their target country, but not want to have to replicate your CMS or custom platform on every hosting server. A slightly darker reason for spreading your sites across different hosts would be to manage micro-sites that appear independent and use them to point link juice into your website.
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Jun 23
Do you rank for the term [seo]? If not, why not?
I used to hear this question from prospective clients around 3 years ago whilst heading up the SEO department at a London based marketing agency. The question was usually asked by SMEs, in the belief that either Google recommended the agencies in the top 10, or that a #1 ranking for [seo] meant that their website could also get a #1 ranking for a completely different search term with ease. This myth was happily spread by those already ranking for term, many of which were using very dubious link acquisition tactics to keep their sites on the first page at the time (and most have since dropped).
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Jun 20
Ayima is currently looking for a SQL Reporting Developer to strengthen our team. We are looking for a smart, quick thinking and thorough individual who wants to develop their knowledge in this challenging industry.
The job holder will be responsible for the following primary requirements:
- To develop business information using all data available in our current business databases
- To help develop new facilities to gather business information
- Analyse, present and comment on the results of the data extraction
- To develop reports to a high standard, to enable the business to make financial, strategic and commercial decisions based on the results
- Assist in the maintenance and development of the server farm.
- It is essential that the candidates can demonstrate core competencies in writing advanced SQL queries.
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