Archive for 'Google'
PR9 Backlink Guarantee Scam
Have you come across marketing emails that guarantee you link placement on a PR9 (PageRank) web site? It’s highly unlikely that your link will be included on a PR9 page and in most cases they will place your link on a highly ranked web site, but your link will be placed on deeper pages inside [...]
Full StorySEO at the Core
You just launched your site and now you want to be rich and famous and you may go about it all wrong. The first thing most people do is try to find a way to rank high in search results in a matter of a week or two, but it doesn’t come that easy. Your [...]
Full StoryGoogle PageRank Update Already?
This has to be the shortest time between Google PageRank updates in a long time or at least since I can remember. The last Google PageRank update happened on July 18th to correct a bug with the update that occurred at the end of June 2011. Google pushed the update at around 12:00 PM CDT [...]
Full StorySecurity News: Google AdWords Phishing Attack
If you are currently running ad campaigns using Google AdWords, you may have received an email that your Google AdWords campaign may have stopped running. The email is not from Google, it is a phishing scam trying to trick users into visiting a bogus website that looks just like the Google AdWords login page. If [...]
Full StoryGoogle Plus Users Grow to 18 Million
Google+ is still in beta and only a small user base has the privilege of giving it a long test drive, but it made a huge splash amongst iPhone users – more on that in a bit. According to one analyst, Google+ user base is just under 18 million. During a Thursday earnings call, Google [...]
Full StoryWill Google+ Strike Out?
First it was Google Buzz, and last August it was Google Wave and now Google+ (Plus). Google the leader in search holds two-thirds of the U.S. market in search and now it is trying once again to compete with the largest social network – Facebook. Will Google strikeout or is three the charm? What makes [...]
Full StoryGoogle Removing AdWords Position Preference
So you like it on top? Get your mind out of the gutter! I am talking about a feature for Adwords called Position Preference. Google has announced they’re retiring the position preference bidding feature in AdWords. Advertisers will no longer be able to select a preference to what position they would like their ad to [...]
Full StoryBounce Rate Not Weighed in Google Algorithm
Many webmasters still look at this metric as a ranking value and they really need to dispel this myth. Bounce rate as defined by Google is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page. In fact, bounce rate can be skewed in several ways, [...]
Full StoryWhy Google Could Fall to Facebook
Even the Mighty Casey struck out and Google may be the next to fall from being the most visited site on the internet. Since March 2010, Facebook has gained a ton of ground on the King and is currently less than 10% less in unique visitors daily according to Compete.com. Facebook is currently the second [...]
Full StoryHow Do You Measure Blog Success
The most important metric I use when measuring my blog success is traffic from search. This metric tells me that my articles are being indexed and they are positioned high in SERP (Search Engine Result Page). If visitors are coming to your blog from search, it means they are looking for content you are publishing [...]
Full StoryGoogle Search Update Already Impacting Content Farms
In the last couple of weeks, there’s been a buzz about Google making changes to their algorithm that will ultimately have a direct effect on search results. This change by Google will reduce the level of low-quality, non-useful content from search results. According to Google, approximately 11.8% of search queries have been updated, which largely [...]
Full StoryComment Spam Flying Under the Radar
If you own and author a blog, I am sure you had your fair share of comment spam. If you have Askimet installed, you are blocking most comment spam, but there are those comments that seem to fly under the radar. If you have comments set to “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” [...]
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