As of mid-April, algorithmic rollouts by Google’s Webspam team have impacted webmasters who have either built low-quality links, or had links directed at their sites using low-quality methods. Around 700,000 warning notices have been sent via webmaster tools, with penalties ranging from the loss of a few places in the rankings, to being de-indexed altogether. These recent penalties have led some to question whether there will be a resurgence in previous Black hat techniques being applied as part of a negative SEO strategy. For obvious reasons, there is a great deal of interest in the strategies SEO professionals are employing in evaluating link prospects. This survey by Orange line examines what they’re (statistically) saying. Does the difficulty of acquiring a link from a domain deter you...
Many think that nofollow links are useless and some think they are useful. But really do they have any importance to them? The common places where we find no follow links are blog comments and forum signatures. They cannot provide value towards your Google pagerank, but they are not useless at all. They can help in fulfilling the main motive of driving traffic to your site. So let’s find out what all a Nofollow Link can...
If you're a real estate professional, you know that keeping up with the competition means inserting yourself into every possible niche and utilizing every available soapbox in order to get your name, brand and offerings out to potential buyers and sellers. With the rapidly changing face of media and marketing in today's technologically savvy world, this means making an advertising jump from bus stop benches to far-reaching social media platforms. Whether you're an old hand when...
One of the deadliest mistakes an online marketer can make is known as over-optimization. Basically, it's SEO carried too far. Like it or not, search engine optimization is also manipulation. One uses techniques that are believed to elicit a favorable response from search engines, such as Google. When you do SEO too well - or rather, use it too much - you could be over-optimizng your website. And this in turn can lead to penalties...
Though it took some time, Google finally took the step to enter the social media arena with Google Plus. The platform is fairly intuitive to use and has had strong growth since its implementation. Organization through Circles provides an excellent way for the user to direct the correct content to the appropriate audience. Of course, businesses and marketers want to know how Google Plus is impacting SEO. *Matt Cutts, Principle Search Engineer, Speaks On Google Plus...
Panda 3.4: Google Avoids Putting it in Black and White The latest Panda update almost slipped out under the radar, since Google chose to announce it on Twitter – a departure from its usual practice of drip-feed by blog. Reaction from the online community was muted, particularly since this is a data-refresh update that has little noticeable effect on almost all queries. Search Engine Land, which is keeping count, labels the update “Panda 3.4,” while Search Engine...
With Twitter's introduction last year of a more official method of retweeting, there has been ongoing confusion concerning what exactly the difference is between the traditional retweet of a Twitter post and the newer RT method. While it's not difficult to find value in the new method introduced by the Twitter team, the use of the community-created term "retweet" has blurred the lines between the two to the point of leaving users unsure which is the...
There is definitely no shortage of Q&A sites in the internet space. And while it can still be considered a newcomer, Quora is one that has managed to stand out from the crowd. Slowly but surely, the service has been introducing new features that bring innovation to an increasingly crowded market and further establish itself as one of the key players. A while back, Quora introduced its credits feature as a reward system of sorts....
If you have found this post after receiving a LinkedIn Sales Message from a company called ZENO, please notice that their links have been omitted from this post because of complaints and unethical spamming of this site. Rugby is a great game, isn’t it? Being of a rather modest build I wasn’t the most athletic kid in school and tended to steer clear of most of the rougher sports. Then, one fine day, a kindly gym...
If you’re active in promoting your web site online, there’s no doubt you’ve heard of Google’s Panda update. Implemented in late winter and early spring of 2011, this algorithm update was designed to eliminate low quality content spam from the database, thus improving the quality of results for Google’s search audience. Whether or not Google was successful in this is a matter of some debate; some very obvious “content farms” are still being prominently featured in...
