Tuesday, October 9, 2012 – This month’s event focused on Google’s two biggest algorithm changes in the past two years: Panda and Penguin. SEO expert Michael Cottam began by dissecting the Panda update, including the human quality raters,...
Google Webmaster Tools fails to consistently notify people after flagging a site with malware, and this is costing people visitors, sales, and time, along with some inconvenience and embarrassment thrown in for good measure. They flag sites for...
At my Pubcon hosting session last November, I predicted that Google would make page load time a ranking factor in 2010. The very next day in his PubCon session, Matt Cutts made the announcement that speed as a ranking factor would be coming soon,...
According to Google Webmaster tools, an affiliate site of mine has over 26,000 links from several hundred different domains. That sounds great, doesn't it? One problem though - the majority of the links don't seem to actually exist, and I have no...
"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget." "You will though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it." Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking Glass So, I...
"All a user has to do to turn off personalized search is to add &pws=0 to the URL of a search query” Matt Cutts - SMX Advanced 2007 As easy as that was to repeat for every search, it looks like Google is finally listening to users, who...
by Lisa Williams We have a client who came to us in March to help procure a Reconsideration Request from Google. De-indexing and reconsideration at Google is not a simple feat. Google reconsideration and religion have a lot in common. Many...
Even though many experienced search marketers shun the use of tools, I guess I'm still a rookie because I really enjoy them. No matter how efficient I think I can be, there's always a better way to do something when you introduce a certain level of...
When we first set up this blog, we applied for an AdSense account, but for whatever reason, we decided not to add the AdSense code to this blog, so I never did. The account is there, and I've even got the code in a widget (I think), but I never made...
I don't really see how it could be true, but I found an interesting topic in our forum where Tom Hale, a local Portland PPC expert and SEMpdx member said this - "...I have a hunch best practices for Page Rank may have a relationship to best...