Google is the main driver of search engine traffic and quality content is the main stay that is used by Google to rank sites. When Google makes changes in its algorithm, the search engine industry catches a cold and needs to rethink their strategies which they are using to reach the top of the charts.
This is something that has happened with the latest Google update called the Panda update. Through with this update, Google has tried to reduce the rankings of content farms or sites with low quality content – basically the high PR article sites that search engine marketers used for getting easy backlinks and get the benefit of the link juice.
Even though Google updated its algorithm many times in past, this update was...
Google is not a fan of plagiarism and so are the original-content loving writers and readers all over the net. No one wants their ideas, words and works copied by others then passed off by the plagiarists as theirs. This is why Google made a commitment to further improve their search algorithm. Enter: Google Panda.
Webmasters are now looking over their shoulders more than ever. They can no longer get away with copying other writers’ content...
In terms of SEO, simplicity is the key to successfully optimizing your site. Always remember to use strong keywords early in the text when writing page content. Craft your sentences to assist the search engine in finding the relationships between your keywords. Also, weave phrases and keywords into subsequent sentences.
But beware of repeating keywords unnecessarily. This is known as “keyword stuffing”. When search engines encounter these unnecessary repetitions, they consider them spam.
But the most important...
It’s no secret that content is the reigning king of SEO. Well-written, informative and useful content is going to bring a lot of more value to the reader, as well as the company who wrote it. Good content has legs and a life of its own. Articles can rank in the search engines, Facebook posts get shared across the social networking community, blog posts get referenced by other writers...
You’ve spent hours developing your new blog and preparing to publish your first post. After months of hard work, you’re finally ready for the big unveiling.
The only thing you need now is readers.
Driving traffic to your blog is relatively straightforward – and pretty simple – if you’re willing to invest the time necessary to spread the word. Today we’re going to discuss the five top ways to spread the word about your blog, starting with...
What is great site content? Content that sells. How do you create content that sells? By following the rules... and by adding a generous sprinkling of style, personality and verve while you're at it.
The former - the science bit - is relatively straightforward. The latter - the emotional bit - is harder to pin down and advise on. So here's twenty one relatively straightforward things to bear in mind if...
I have already shared with DailySEOTip readers our cool new concept we are building at MyBlogGuest: Articles Gallery. In short, it allows blog owners to choose from the variety of articles on different topics and, when approved, update their blogs with free unique and well-written content.
Yes, we *are* still building the concept because it is pretty much new and we discover various pitfalls as well as better ways to organize it via...
Most bloggers are too busy: they either earn living "offline" or run a number of projects and blogs simultaneously. Therefore sticking to regular blog update editorial is challenging for most bloggers.
Getting content from outside is the solution for most. The existing ways to do that are not perfect:
Getting content from article directories (like EzineArticles) you republish already live articles - thus you may hit the duplicate content filter;
Looking for guest bloggers is time consuming.
The solution?...
There are basic concepts for writing on the web that are so fundamental that it is incredible they’re so often overlooked and forgotten.
No matter how wonderful your prose, no matter how stimulating or persuasive your arguments, however much someone should read your words, if readers can not find your website, it will remain unread. Probably the reason this central fact is so frequently forgotten is that many people do...
Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team, recently said, “We have over 200 signals in our scoring to try to return the most relevant, the most useful, the most accurate search results that we can find.”
Google constantly changes its algo to provide info that’s relevant and useful to users, as quickly as possible. What ranked well last year might not rank so well this year. As they put it ...