A few weeks ago, we began to discuss the importance of SEO inbound links and why you should pay careful attention to them when developing your site. Even if you’re just revamping your site, you need to pay attention as doing these links wrong could have serious repercussions for how your site ranks on the …
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So much of the time when building a website for your business, the focus is on driving traffic to it using search engine optimization or SEO. Your focus is also likely on how to build the number of inbound links or links from other websites to your site. But what if certain sites link to …
Inbound links are a big part of search engine optimization. However, inbound links can be abused rather easily. Some people might think doing this is a quick way to make their site skyrocket to the top of the search results. However, the opposite is true. Trying to manipulate inbound links can make it so a …
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GoDaddy (godaddy.com) the web, email hosting and domain registrar company experienced significant outages today. Around 2 PM EST on Monday GoDaddy hosted websites and email services became unavailable. Within an hour wast majority of Godaddy hosted websites were down and GoDaddy has posted first acknowledgement on its Twitter account. Based on the experience of some of our customers (we are …
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Yes you do need to understand Bing to get the most out of SEO and while there are far more people using Google there are still a significant number using Bing and it makes no sense to ignore these potential customers when doing your SEO. Don’t always assume that work works for Google works for …
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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