A Google Plus member reports that Google may be testing a red indicator to identify slow web sites when searching with a mobile device. K. Neeraj Kayastha displayed an image of the search results he saw while doing a mobile search using his Android phone. The test appears to be taking place in India. I […]
Responsive Web Design Now Offers a Ranking Advantage
Google announced a ranking algorithm change that gives mobile-friendly web sites an advantage in search results when users search from a mobile device. They talked about this change over a year ago, and are now putting it into place. The key aspect of is that the advantage is only apparent when searches are performed through […]
Do Sites Get Penalized for Invalid HTML?
The question of whether or not Google will penalize a site for not using absolutely clean, valid HTML coding comes up a lot. For many years most SEO companies believed that this did have a significant impact on search engine rankings. However, Google clarified that issue several years ago. Matt Cutts recently re-iterated that Google […]
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 […]
How To Create a Keyword Theme
A keyword theme places a focus on a page that search engine spiders use to determine the set of keywords that best represents a web page. How you craft a keyword theme when writing content for a page can make a huge difference in the rank position for that page. This SEO tutorial shows you […]
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 […]
Content Curation – What You Need to Know
The concept of “content curation” has been around for a few years. Content curation refers to the research and gathering of the best and most relevant articles related to a particular topic, and then presenting them in an interesting and useful way for other users. This is similar to what a museum curator does when […]
How a WordPress Project Comes Together
WordPress makes a very nice platform for building many types of web sites — especially business sites. You may want to convert an existing site to WordPress, build a brand new site or add a additional site to use to drive supplemental business. Here is the basic plan that we follow when building a WordPress […]
Are Tag Clouds a Good Idea?
hold until cleared from index Questions have recently been asked about the SEO value of using tag clouds with web sites. We have a response from Matt Cutts from Google regarding this type of linking methodology. Tags are an additional method for joining similar articles through a common keyword. Tag clouds are the collections of […]
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. This update was launched around February 23. Google announced the update in an article called Finding More High-Quality Sites in Search just as the dust was beginning to […]