Category: Internet Marketing

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 … Continue reading

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 … Continue reading

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. … Continue reading

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 … Continue reading

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 … Continue reading

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 … Continue reading

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 … Continue reading

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 … Continue reading

The Aftermath of Google’s Panda-Farmer Update

Some people are calling this the Farmer Update, while others are referring to it as Panda. Either way, it had a noticeable impact on Google search results.

URL Shorteners and SEO

Matt Cutts, one of Google’s Quality Engineers, posted a video that clarifies the question of whether URL shorteners pass PageRank and anchor text. It appears that URL shorteners, such as bit.ly and goo.gl (Google’s new URL shortener service) will pass … Continue reading

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