What to expect from Google in the coming months.
Spammers beware! This summer, Google is going after black-hat and link spammers. In a video on YouTube, Google’s Matt Cutts announced 9 things that Google will do within the next months. How do these changes affect the position of your web pages in Google’s search results and what can you do to protect your rankings?1. There will be more Penguin updates
Google is going to launch the next generation of the Penguin algorithm within the
Mistake 1: having a website that is not crawlableAccording to Matt Cutts, the biggest SEO mistake is having a website that is not crawlable by search engines.
If your website is not crawlable, search engines cannot index your pages and your web pages won’t be listed on Google.
By correcting these issues, you make sure that search engines can index all of your pages correctly.Mistake 2: including the wrong words on your web pagesUsing the wrong words on your web pages is the
A new search engine tries to challenge Google. It doesn’t rely on backlinks and it actually delivers good results. Could this be a real alternative to Google? How can you make sure that your website will be found in this search engine?What’s the name of the new search engine?
The name of the new search engine is Samuru.com. It was developed by Stremor, the company of Brandon Wirtz. Brandon Wirtz previously tested many different ways to game Google for fun and profit. As he
Andre Weyher, a former member of Google’s web spam team, has given an interview in which he reveals several things that can be useful if you want to improve your search engine optimization campaign.1. Relevance is the new PageRankWe’ve said it before in our newsletter: do not focus on the PageRank of a web page. The PageRank that is displayed in Google’s toolbar is not the PageRank that Google actually uses in the algorithm. In addition, Google now uses other factors to
Well that’s an age old question. We’ve always thought that Google thrives on live page text, it’s the number 1 way for Google to figure out what your website is REALLY about. We all know that you can spoof a title tag, and you can’t really see any of the meta tags, so live page text must be it. Well here is Matt Cuts from Google here to tell you just what Google thinks.Share this page:
A new study shows that Google’s tolerance of spammy backlinks is decreasing:
“The Portent analysis found strong evidence that Google is steadily lowering the bar for what it considers spam link profiles. [...] We found that the majority of websites — 36 out of 50 — have “clean” profiles with less than 10 percent of their links coming from questionable sources. [...]
We discovered Google has been applying a stricter standard over time. In the initial Penguin update, the
Since the dramatic Google Penguin update a few weeks ago webmasters and companies have been going crazy trying to clean up their backlink profiles. Instead of doing things to improve their web pages, some webmasters concentrate on removing backlinks that point to their site.
If you’re a regular reader of our newsletter, you know that we don’t recommend deleting backlinks. It won’t help your website and chances are that you will waste a lot of time and money:Is Google’s
It’s SEO Tuesday and we are revisiting the importance of Links, their “Negative” effects, and the all controversial Disavow Links Tool. It’s all part of the twisted puzzle of SEO, and that’s why it takes a team to stay on top of these things.
In a video on YouTube, the head of Google’s anti-spam team Matt Cutts talked about negative SEO. Can other companies hurt your website rankings by spamming your site? What can you do to avoid this?Matt Cutts’
In e-commerce marketing, a landing page is a single page that appears in response to clicking on a search engine optimized search result or online advertisement.
Landing pages are often linked to social media, email campaigns or online advertisements and allow the click through and conversion rates to be analyzed by marketers. The general goal of a landing page is to convert site visitors into sales leads. Almost any business with a website can have a landing page- but what differentiates
It’s SEO Tuesday again here at Maine Hosting Solutions and today we’re talking one of the most important aspects of your SEO Program: LINKS! We all need LINKS, Good Links, Related Website Links.
What if someone says No-Way-Dude? How do you deal with that flat out rejection, that door slam? Well, you just do what you’ve hopefully been doing your whole life; Learn From Your Mistakes! Adapt, modify, retry.Good backlinks from related websites are the most important element in
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