… for links that are so called “dodgy” or from “bad neighbourhoods.” I have seen so many web masters now worrying about their backlink profile, and for good reason. Google has not been very clear about how a bunch of backlinks that they don’t trust, could affect your own site’s search engine rankings. In the
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Are “Panda” updates over this latest one Google has released being named “Penguin?” I mean, the next update, will it be a Panda 2.9, or a Penguin 1.1? A penguin it might be, and sometimes penguins can be cute, but they are slow, clumsy, and they can’t fly. Penguins can swim, but the Google Penguin
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Google is hitting the blog networks really hard and has their sights set on them. Today it is official that one that tried to emulate Build My Rank has now been almost decimated by the de-indexing of Google. Rank Jumpers sent out the following to their subscribers today: Rank Jumpers is very disheartened to say
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For years, it has been known that an important part of external SEO is back link building. Having plenty of “quality” links back to your site(s) has counted as a “vote” of sorts as to where your site should rank in search engines and has been heavily weighted on the anchor text that is used.
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Recently, I came across a product for sale with some interesting sales copy, promising all sorts of benefits to someone who wanted to create a website and monetize it. Part of the “feature” of this product was the ability to use keywords, and populate a website with lists of Youtube videos including the descriptions that
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You know, I don’t really like outing people. In fact, I admire people that go an extra mile in order to try to provide a valuable service – even new people or new businesses. If they are legitimate. Unfortunately, there are so many so called SEO specialists and businesses cropping up that obviously have very
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A couple of years ago, I came across an interesting theory or idea. It went something like this: “If you register your domain name for a longer period than one year, and preferably up to ten years, Google’s algorithms will take that into account because it would appear you are serious about your business.” As
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Via SEO Roundtable, I came across this interesting discussion at Webmaster World. Basically, it’s a discussion about how website owner changed some text on and altered some tags on his website, and saw no effect in his search engine rankings with Google. We all like dirty little secrets, don’t we? From my observations, it seems
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I have been providing search engine optimization services since 1997. When I first got into the web development business (and that’s a story in itself – how a guy who had barely touched a computer in his life, working in law enforcement, and got started learning HTML), I figured I’d also better try to figure
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