Google have announced they aim to penalize those with content that is used illegally and infringes copyright in the latest important SEO algorithm change. It seems like a good idea in principle, assuming you believe that copyright infringement is wrong and should be discouraged, the idea is that if a website has a large number …
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Lets take a look at the latest post of inbound links from Matt Cutts and see what it means for your website in the post-penguin world. Google’s original link messages as Matt refers to them are known by many website owners who used black hat techniques in the past and also those who didn’t, or …
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97% of Americans look for local goods and services online so there is basically no type of business who can’t benefit from having a website and making sure it can be found by the right people. Appearing in organic search results on sites like Google, Bing and Yahoo costs nothing in itself and if you …
It’s not just duplicate content that will affect where you rank it seems but Matt Cutts of Google’s Webspam team also wants to see you bring additional value. Based on interviews with him on the matter if you have the same content as another site just written differently Google will try to catch this and …
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These 12 steps are based on Google’s advice to small business owners with websites they may not have time to invest in with SEO research but who want to make sure they don’t get penalized and make sure they do benefit from organic SEO. 301 permanent redirects Use 301 permanent redirects to avoid pages appearing …
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Google Pagerank is a simple scale from 0 to 10 (as well as n/a for very new pages) as it is an important factor in where your site appears in Google’s results a lot of effort is put into improving it by online marketing professionals. Google Pagerank gets a lot of focus because of the …
As a small business finding time to do your SEO internally is one of the biggest barriers you will come across, unfortunately to do it well you need to work at it, this means setting aside time each day, either that or outsourcing it. SEO is partly about trial and error, once you have it …
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Good news for businesses, bad news for established SEO companies the industry is becoming more competitive and the shortage of SEO professionals is beginning to be filled, though gurus with more than a few years experience are still in the minority. Affordable SEO then may become a reality for many more small businesses and not …
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If you ever thought as a webmaster that Google were on your side that myth may have been blown out of the water with Google Penguin. In the past Google have slowly rolled out changes and seen the effects they have had on sites before rolling them out completely. It seems with Google Penguin though …
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If you haven’t been affected by Penguin yet then the best thing is to make sure you won’t be, before its too late. For a lot of people though it is too late and everyday that a penalty remains or the filter affects your ranking you are losing money so you need a quick penguin …
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