Google’s recent updates to their Link Schemes page now makes it appear that they intend to go after after a much wider range of links with their upcoming Penguin updates. Links that may be deemed as poor quality or “unnatural” now include keyword stuffed links from forum posts and forum signature links. If you have […]
How To Drive Traffic With Great Content
It is not uncommon for site owners to wonder why their site does not draw in very much free traffic from Google’s organic listings. More often than not, the problem lies within the quality of the textual content found on the web site. Here are some tips to help you to focus writing great quality […]
Guaranteed Traffic Scams Are Back
We are starting to see more “guaranteed traffic” scams. Here is what you need to know about these scams so that you do not waste your money on useless services for fake traffic. Guaranteed traffic offerings typically offer to send tens of thousands of visitors to your web site for a fee. The fees are […]
Is Social Networking Important for Google Rankings?
Throughout 2010 and as late as March of 2012, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s WebSpam team and primary liaison with the SEO industry, urged the SEO community to focus on social networking as a way to improve web rankings. The idea was that social networking “signals,” which are basically social activity and communications that […]
How To Add Google Plus Images to Google Search Results
Questions have been raised lately about how to add the author images that Google is currently adding to search results listings. These are Google Plus Profile images and they do make a listing for a site stand out, which improves the chances that someone will click on your link. Theoretically, this should drive more targeted […]
Google Attacks Several Blog Networks
On March 19, 2012, Google started to de-index a large number of web sites that were a part of blog networks used by site owners and SEO companies for link building. A blog network is a large group of blogs that are set up for the purpose of posting articles that contain links to other […]
Viewing the Google Cache
For many years Google included a link to the last stored copy of a web page in their index and displayed the link along with other website information on their search results page. They recently removed the “cache” link. Here is how to view the cache for any web page in Google’s index. What is […]
What Is Link Velocity?
While link velocity is an easy concept for web site owners to understand, it is important to know how to monitor it properly or there could be a negative impact on your site rankings. Link velocity is simply the rate at which backlinks are built to a web site. If a site contains good quality, […]
Trusted Local Business Directories
Local business directories are a good way to drive traffic to a local business web site. Trusted directories are those that Google and other search engines consider to be a legitimate place to list a local business with a link to your web site. Google appears to pay close attention to these directories. How do […]
What is Sock Puppet Marketing?
Sock puppet marketing is becoming commonplace in some segments off the Internet. It is being used as a fraudulent method for promoting products and services and is an easy way to lose credibility when a site owner gets caught. There are several variations, but sock puppet marketing is essentially a situation where someone is selling […]