We’ve come to that time once again where we’re going to discuss some common SEO questions put forth to chief of Google’s webspam team, Matt Cutts. First up is a question about no-follow links. Specifically, the user wanted to know if no-follow links could hurt their site. Cutts answers straight away with “no,” these types …
Not-So Basic Questions About the Rel=Author Tag and Google Authorship
If you keep up to date with all things search optimization (like you should be!), you know that the rel=author tag is really important for establishing yourself as an authority in Google search results. Declaring authorship presents the articles you write in the search results with your photo positioned next to them. This makes your …
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How Google Helps Webmasters With SEO
Recently, a user on YouTube asked Matt Cutts, chief of Google’s webspam team a question about when the company will support webmaster questions and not just provide automated responses. This user in particular was lamenting the fact that he has only ever received automated responses to his reconsideration requests, even though he always wrote out …
Good and Bad SEO Ideas in the Post-Panda 2.0 Period
A lot of people have tired out views of what SEO is and what it means. Yes, keywords are a part of any good optimization strategy, but they’re not everything. Optimization efforts are a lot more varied nowadays and take in numerous aspects of a site’s presence on the web. In short: good content is …
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New Methods of Backlinking to Build SEO
Back in the old days, it used to be that getting as many links to your site, through whatever means possible, was your best bet for SEO. However, nefarious backlinking strategies will now get you punished and result in your site plummeting in the rankings. With Google’s Webmaster Guidelines in hand, here are our favorite …
Guest Blogging Opportunities with Us
Affordable SEO, Tampa based SEO and internet marketing company has opened our guest blog sites for guest blogging a couple of month and would be happy to consider your blog post article for one of our blog sites. An article needs to meet our requirements outlined below to be accepted for posting on our sites. …
What is User-Generated Spam and How Does It Relate to SEO?
When you’re trying to optimize a website, much of your focus is on the content you create. That is, you spend you’re time thinking about how to rank well for specific keywords or making sure your site doesn’t have any duplicate content. This is all fine and well but it leaves a huge gap in …
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Webmaster Tools, SEO, and Penalty Link Examples
Today we’re going to discuss the latest video from chief Google engineer, Matt Cutts, who offers up regular tips and tricks to webmasters. The topic for today is penalty link examples. When you manage a website, it’s important to have an understanding of your linking strategy. This means you need to know what sites link …
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The manual spam action can be revoked by Google
We have another confirmation that with right amount of effort the manual spam action taken by Google for unnatural/spam links can be revoked. It took us a significant amount of time spent on reviewing our client’s website for unnatural linking, contacting many webmasters for removing unnatural links and utilizing Webmaster disavow tool for links/domain we …
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Hidden Content and Content Freshness: SEO Impacts
We’re going to talk about some information given out by SEO expert and Google engineer, Matt Cutts today. As you know, he’s the go-to source for everything having to do with webspam and site optimization, so without further adieu, let’s discuss some questions and answers. First up, a user wanted to know how Google treats …
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