For years, guest blogging has been a method individuals have used to build links to their websites. In 2014, expect things to change. Why? It’s because guest blogging, once filled with good intentions, has now become a spammy practice. If you have been doing a lot of guest blogging lately, then you may not be …
The Role of the How Search Works Website in Your SEO Efforts
In order to use the How Search Works website, all you have to do is Google it and you will find it at the top of the search results page. After you click, you are brought to a page that shows you the story of how search works. The first part focuses on crawling and …
Continue reading “The Role of the How Search Works Website in Your SEO Efforts”
Simple SEO and SEM Strategies to Boost Rankings
When you want to have a highly effective website, there are some SEO and SEM practices that you can incorporate into your website to ensure it performs well and that it converts visitors into customers the way you want it to. The following are tips that can help you better succeed at improved rankings. Disavow …
Continue reading “Simple SEO and SEM Strategies to Boost Rankings”
How to Handle the Shift From SEO to SEM: Part 1
When Google releases an update to their algorithm, the rumors start flying. In May 2013, the rumor was that SEO was dead. The moment the name “Penguin 2.0,” now updated to 2.1, was mentioned, search engine optimization experts started panicking. When Google released Hummingbird, its most significant update in 12 years, websites started seeing their …
Continue reading “How to Handle the Shift From SEO to SEM: Part 1”
How to Deal With Unnatural Links to Your Site
Even if your website has a lot of high quality content, having low quality links can damage the search engine’s impression of your website. This forces them to take action, which can hurt your website’s ranking, thus making it harder to find it in the search engine results pages. If SEO is what you are …
Continue reading “How to Deal With Unnatural Links to Your Site”
Google allows custom URL for Google+ pages
Following Facebook, Twitter and other Social Media giants Goggle finally has made the customization of the Google+ URL available. It’s however not for everybody and is not as flexible as it sounds. To qualify for personal Google+ page it needs to have 10 or more followers, be at least 30 day old and have a profile photo. …
Continue reading “Google allows custom URL for Google+ pages”
Matt Cutts Answers Questions About Guest Blogging and Search Engine Results
It’s time to take a look at some questions head of Google’s webspam team, Matt Cutts answered today over on his YouTube channel. Each of these questions have to do with search engine optimization in some way or another and are designed to aid webmasters in making good decisions regarding site content and structure. One …
Continue reading “Matt Cutts Answers Questions About Guest Blogging and Search Engine Results”
SEO Questions About NoFollow Links and PageRank
It’s that time once again where we look at questions posed to chief of Google’s webspam team, Matt Cutts, and round up his answers. It’s a SEO Q&A and hopefully it helps budding and experienced webmasters alike find greater success in their optimization efforts. The first question Matt Cutts addressed this week has to do …
Continue reading “SEO Questions About NoFollow Links and PageRank”
Google Updates Search with Hummingbird
Well, Google has done it again. They have updated their search engine in an effort to provide more accurate results for complex search queries. The update just rolled out and it’s called Hummingbird and may dramatically affect how we approach SEO from here on out. This latest update is actually slated to be the biggest …
SEO Questions About No-Follow Links, Automatically Generated Pages and the Effects of Panda
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 …