After many years of encouraging website owners to use guest blogging as a legitimate method for building links, Google may now have guest bloggers in their sites for a new range of penalties. A guest blogger is someone who published articles on other sites in order to send traffic to their own site. It has […]
Guest Blogging and Google
One by one, Google’s Penguin updates have effectively eliminated most backlink building opportunities that worked well a few years ago. Moreover, most spammy and poor quality link building techniques that were formerly ignored by Google now result in negative ranking penalties. One viable opportunity for valid and natural link building appears to be guest blogging. […]
Google May Be Going After Forum Links With Penguin Updates
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 […]
The Google Panda Update Requires Unique Content
If your web site’s traffic from Google dropped off dramatically sometime since February of 2011, the site was probably filtered out by Google’s Panda update. The Panda Update was not one update, but rather was a series of ranking algorithm updates that were launched during 2011. The targets for Panda are sites with low-quality content, […]