Google Pagerank Calculation

There are many webmasters that keep a close eye on Pagerank to measure the effectiveness of incoming links or backlinks to their website or blog. The biggest question is how many backlinks you need to move your Pagerank up. It’s not only the amount of backlinks, but the quality of those backlinks.
Each Pagerank level is [...]

How to Check Your Significant Keywords

It’s important that the keywords you use are significant with your sites content. You do not want keywords that have little or no relevance to your site.
Your most significant keywords should reflect the subject matter of your site.
I try to use at least one of my top five significant keywords in my content. This tells [...]

Google Considering Site Speed as a Factor for Pagerank

The buzz is flying in the SEO space about site speed having weight on Pagerank. It seems odd that Google will add such an indicator to its algorithm. What about sites like eBay, iStockphoto and Flickr to name a few? Will these sites be penalized due to their massive index of content and images? I [...]

Google PageRank Update Underway!

The Google toolbar update is underway! The update started early this morning here in the USA and it should continue for the next 24 to 48 hours. There are many bloggers that keep a close watch on their Google PageRank and only wish for one thing, and that is an increase on their homepage and [...]

Have you been Penalized by Google?

There are many websites and blogs that are banned from Google’s index and the owners of these websites or blogs have no idea that they’re in the penalty box. If your website or blog is penalized, you need to find out why it’s penalized and address the issues.
Tools to check if your website or blog [...]

Google Trends Makes Changes to Top 100

If you are familiar with Google Trends, which lists the fastest rising searches on the web at any given hour. If you click on one of the hottest trends it will take you to a page that shows you the following information;

Hotness – On Fire, Spicy, Medium, and Mild
Related Searches – Search terms related to [...]

Google Search Traffic Down

In the last 2 months, I have been keeping a close eye on 5 websites that I currently track analytics for and noticed that Google search traffic is down by 50% across the board. This is a substantial decrease and one that I am sure many can’t answer why. Did Google change their algorithm in [...]

Googlebot and a Cup of Coffee

I was sitting at my computer early in the morning like I do everyday, but this day I had company. The Googlebot appeared, but not just one, but many. I was curious to see what content it was gobbling up, and than it stared me right in the face, it was an article I just [...]

Google Pagerank Update More Frequent

If you haven’t noticed, the Google Pagerank update is becoming more frequent as of late. In the past 2 years, the average between updates was approximately 3 months, but the last 4 updates have come much sooner.
Last 6 updates
January 1, 2009
April 1, 2009 – 3 months
May 8, 2009 – 23 days
May 19, 2009 – 11 [...]