SEO – Search Engine Optimization, tips, resources. Anything search engine related.
Let’s face it everyone wants websites to link to them. Especially the big guys and gals right? Nobody says please don’t link to me Google, and that kind of thing. Maybe smaller iffy sites with questionable content, but not legit ones …
One of the difficult things to determine is whether or not your website was really hit by Google Panda, Penguin, or something else. This easy to use tool will help you figure out if your website was affected positively, negatively, or not…
If you follow Google updates, algorithm changes, and such you probably know that it has been more than a year since they updated Penguin. SEO’s and website owners have been watching this closely with some almost begging for it to happen. One year and counting…
There are many things that Google doesn’t like. They don’t like Microsoft too well, and they probably don’t like Apple Inc. either, but they are most likely fine with an apple (fruit) in general. When it comes to SEO there are a lot of things we are told to avoid that can get your website into trouble. From the definite NO No’s, to the gray area that’s not quite as clear. A few whoopsies and you are in penalty land…
Recently I was reading an article about Google authorship over at Tim Bonner’s website titled: Why You Should Spend More Time Thinking About Google Authorship. To be honest I don’t think about authorship that much.
Every time Google plays the update game and hands out more penalizes either algorithmically or manually I see more and more sites adding the nofollow tag to various links. Sometimes it’s in contend links. Other times it’s advertisements, affiliate links, etc. in a sidebar column.
If you have an interest in SEO, or have ever spent more than a few minutes reading up on it you may have heard the name Matt Cutts mentioned. If not I guess you have now. Matt is probably known most for being the head of the Google Webspam team.
I read up on and visit a lot of tips and resource sites. Last year (2013) I did see broken links talked about fairly often. Many talked about how having broken links on your website can have a negative impact on your rankings.
If you have been thinking about disavowing some of your backlinks, but have been putting off doing so because you haven’t received a manual penalty notification in your Webmaster Tools account Google’s Matt Cutts gives the go ahead to do so.