The following corny video from Google explains how social activity of your friends will now show up within web results when you are logged into your account.
READ MORE »Google Penalties for Selling Links
Today I noticed that one of my personal web properties got a ranking penalty in Google. As I began to assess the damages I realized that Google dinged me pretty badly. The daily organic visits dropped from average of 40 visits a day to around 10. Why do you ask? Well… I was selling links [...]
READ MORE »Adsense Estimated Earnings
Many industry professionals know that it is much harder to make a decent profit with Adsense as it once was (we are seeing the same thing with affiliate marketing as well). With that being known, I still have web properties that are using Adsense as a revenue source, although I have begun to get frustrated [...]
READ MORE »Diversified Link Building Strategy
As I learn and grow everyday, and the search engines continue to evolve, I am starting to see more and more importance of building a diversified link profile. I have been well aware that the branded/keyword-rich anchor text proportion is definitely a factor SEO’s need be wary of, but now I am seeing much more [...]
READ MORE »Bad SEO Hurts Rankings
Many businesses are scared to invest in SEO due to all the horror stories and bad reputation that shady SEOs have created. One problem about SEO is that there is a plethora of content available on the subject (this blog for instance), that nearly every blog reader thinks they are an expert in SEO (or [...]
READ MORE »Google Places Domination
We continue to see more and more updates to the Google user interface, from the various universal search results (live, shopping, news, places) that have made their way into the organic results. The latest update included in the SERP results places a much higher focus on Google Places results. A large number of organic results [...]
READ MORE »Keyword Research
SEOs know the foundation of a solid SEO campaign starts with extensive keyword research. We start by finding the most relevant keywords that have substantial search volume, with limited competition. Unfortunately, our job just got much harder for those who have been depending on the Google Adwords Keyword research tool. The tool now only provides [...]
READ MORE »Are SEO Services Really Worth It?
Search engine optimization services are often misunderstood and the trickery going on in the industry clouds things even greater. There is quite a bit of bad press around SEO services and linkbuilding, simply because consumers do not understand what they are paying for, and may be getting ripped off. This post outlines the long-term benefits [...]
READ MORE »Taking a Closer Look at Linkbuilding
Every SEO should know the sheer power of obtaining backlinks to a website. When analyzing the search engine algorithm it is apparent that inbound links power a large percent of the index results. On-page SEO elements can only take you so far, it will be inbound links, that will generate rankings for competitive keywords. The [...]
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