The last Google update dubbed “Penguin” has had a far reaching impact that seems well beyond the 3% that the company had predicted. The foretold intent was to target web spam, but reports of high quality websites that never did a day of link building in their lives have been hit by the … [Read more...]
What will Matter in SEO in 2012?
SEO is an evolving process. It doesn’t remain static for a year at a time ever. The Internet and the way that consumers use it changes all of the time and SEOs must respond to that. In addition, Google and Bing alike are getting better at delivering higher quality results – in essence at the … [Read more...]
5 Tips For Making Your Website Panda Friendly
Earlier this year, Google released a new algorithm change which is commonly known as the Panda update. This update uses a variety of metrics defined by human reviewers to figure out the level of quality that a site has. The introduction of this update makes it much harder for low-quality and … [Read more...]
What Google’s New Adwords Placement Means for Search
Have you noticed that Adwords advertisements are now showing up at the bottom of the search results on Google? There is some testing going on right now with Google, but every test has a purpose and gives us some insight to what is going on the giant search engine's brain. In this post we will … [Read more...]
My Theory on the October 14th Google Update
On October 14th or 15th (depending on where you live) there was a pretty major Google algorithm update. Matt Cutts said in a tweet that it would only effect about 2% of websites, but from what I am reading it has had a much broader effect than just 2%. Having had some of my websites effected as … [Read more...]
SEO Firms Are Expensive and Google Wants it That Way
Have you looked at the prices that SEO firms are charging these days? Some SEO companies are charging as much as $5,000 a month, and for what they offer it's hard to justify paying that kind of money. But have you thought about the fact that Google wants SEO to be expensive. Think about … [Read more...]
What More Frequent Google Page Rank Updates Mean for You
If you have been watching your page rank toolbar lately you might have noticed that PR updates are coming out of nowhere these days. Google is more frequent in their PR updates, but what does this mean for your website or blog. Here are some things you need to be paying attention to. PR … [Read more...]
Is SEO Clogging Up the Internet?
Search engines like Google are always looking for better ways to display only the most relevant and quality-filled sites at the top of search page results. Search Engine Optimization is merely a way of figuring out how those search engines work and optimizing a website so that it will be more … [Read more...]
Do You Really Need to Get Your Backlinks Indexed?
I just got another email from a reputable internet marketer trying to promote a backlink indexing service. And I see these services all the time. Keep in mind that this was from a marketer that I respect and trust, so many good people disagree on this topic. So what's the answer? Should you … [Read more...]







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