Paid links on the BBC – an SEO controversy

A few months back I attended the excellent ProSEO Seminar in London. One of the speakers was Russell Smith, Editorial big cheese of the BBC News website. His talk on data journalism was very interesting but what stuck in my mind was a question which came from the floor during the Q&A session. Someone asked if he was aware of journalists placing out-bound links on the BBC news pages.
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Move a WordPress site to a new domain without affecting SEO

After my issues with the sluggish speed of my site, I decided to move to a new, Manchester based hosting company. I also thought a more Manchester centric domain would be a good idea, hence the move from TokyoRepublik.com to MancunianRepublik.com.

Moving domains throws up a plethora of problems with regard to SEO. The TokyoRepublik.com site had been live for over 5 years and had built up some pretty good in-bound links and domain history. I needed to find a way to keep all (or at least most) of this SEO good stuff. Here is a checklist of the steps I took.
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Leaving Media Temple to speed up WordPress

A little while back I wrote about how to speed up WordPress to improve rankings. Some of the comments I received pointed to the fact that the problems may lie with my Grid Service hosting plan, provided by Media Temple. I got in touch with the company who replied with the following:
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