An SEO Silver Bullet Post Penguin
It’s easy to keep the dreaded Google Pandas and Penguins away from your website house – all you need is an SEO silver bullet. You need an SEO strategy that is immune to Google’s constant algorithmic tweaks. Google Penguin has come and gone, but
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When Google Penguins Attack!
For about a month, we’ve been talking about Google’s over-optimization / webspam update. If your website has been penalized with this latest update, your enemy now has a name – Google Penguin. Officially let out of its cage on April 24, 2012,
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April 24-25, 2012: Google’s Webspam Update
For some webmasters and SEO today is the day – a day of reckoning. Think of all the SEOs filling up their coffee mug for the umpteenth time today to try to fix months, and in some cases years, of dirty deeds! Today on Google Webmaster Central, the company
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Google’s Over-Optimization Penalty – Rand’s Take
Watch this video! SEO industry guru, Rand Fishkin, covered an interesting topic during this past week’s Whiteboard Friday – “6 Changes Every SEO Should Make BEFORE the Over-Optimization Penalty Hits.” Watch the video and see them all for yourself. A few of our comments: One of Rand’s suggestions is to use “authentic, non-spammy title tags.” [...]
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Negative SEO: Having Web Enemies Can Hurt Your Rankings
If you haven’t read the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, your organic rankings could be at risk! It turns out that having enemies on the web can kill your SEO. For years, link builders speculated that the worst thing Google might do if they were caught is to devalue the links. Their [...]
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Does Google Take Manual Action on Webspam?
Watch this video! In this video, Matt Cutts makes some pretty interesting comments. He mentions duplicate content and that Google wants webmasters to avoid duplicate content. He also uses the term “doorway domain”. Makes you wonder if city or geo-targeted pages on websites or geo-targeted domains are going to be the next to get whacked [...]
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Unnatural Links Low Quality Links
As mentioned in an earlier post on this blog, Google is on the war path again and this time they’re searching (no pun intended) for low-quality, unnatural links. We’ve known for years that inbound links are
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April 3, 2012 Google Algorithm Updates
Today Google announced over a dozen updates to their algorithm. Some of them don’t seem to have relevance to SEO, where as others should have a direct impact. Here are a few we think constitute a ranking signal change (and how you should
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March 23, 2012 – Google Panda Attacks Again!
Google Panda is like an wart that just won’t go away (not that we would know anything about warts). Today, March 23rd at 6pm, Google announced via Twitter that another Panda update is rolling out and 1.6% of searches will be impacted. Our guess is that this update could be part of Google’s promise to [...]
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How Much SEO? A Dab Will Do Yah.
Recently, at SXSW, Matt Cutts, Google’s head spam cop, announced that Google is working on a penalty to punish over-optimized websites. The new addition to the algorithm could be implemented as early as three weeks from now (if it hasn’t started being implemented now). The purpose of the penalty is to devalue sites that have [...]
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