When building a website and using SEO to optimize it, many webmasters run into a problem: bad links. When a site has a lot of links from less than legitimate sites pointing to it, this can dramatically reduce that site’s rank. While this is done to weed out sites using nefarious backlinking strategies, it’s not …
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It’s that time of the week, once again, to cover some of the questions posed to Google engineer, Matt Cutts, and the answers he gave to budding SEO experts just like yourself. So sit back, relax, and learn something! First up, a user wanted to know if their site was down for a day, if …
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When you have a blog and you’re writing up original content (as you should be), you might wonder how to attribute any sources you may use. That is, how do you let people know what resources you used to write the article in the first place? Recently, a webmaster got in touch with Google engineer, …
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The Webmaster Guidelines put out by Google help people who build websites learn what to do and what not to do in terms of designing and creating their homes on the web. Basically, there are some things you can do that might penalize you in the eyes of the search engine. Webspam content violations are …
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Welcome to yet another post about Google engineer, Matt Cutts, who is the head of the webspam team, and some of the answers he’s provided to questions recently over on his YouTube channel about SEO. We’re going to talk about three specific topics today. First, Cutts noted that they are going to begin sending out …
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