Google Unnatural Links Penalty – A Wake Up Call to Webmasters

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If you haven’t yet heard, Google is on a rampage to “clean up” the webspam created by overly aggressive SEO firms seeking to rank their clients by the use of what Google considers to be “Unnatural Links”.   Since February of 2012, Google has sent out over 700,000 warnings through Google Webmaster Tools notifying clients of [...]

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5 SEO-Friendly Content Development Tips

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- Guest Post by Sara Lancaster of No.2 Pen -  You bought the domain name, you have a website design you love, and you’ve hired a trusty SEO consultant. Now you’re missing just one thing: web content that’s search engine friendly. While SEO-friendly web content development might sound scary, it doesn’t have to be. Search [...]

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Hey Google, Check Out My 301 Redirects

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When a site goes live on a new domain, or a new website design requires moving old pages to new URL’s, it is imperative that you use a 301 redirect (permanent redirect) to point all of the old pages to the new URL’s so that you don’t lose your existing page rankings and associated site [...]

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Using Delicious and Twitter to Create Followed Links

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Delicious and Twitter CAN be used to Create “Followed” Links. Social Bookmarking is one of the most popular link-building techniques around, and for good reason. The links from many social sites are “followed”, they allow you to control the anchor text of the link, and you get the added benefit of social promotion and the [...]

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Search Engine Optimization in 2009

Search Engine Optimization

Last night I pondered the future of Search Engine Optimization, particularly the effects of Universal Search and it’s full implementation, and while some of these changes have already started to show, yet others have yet to be fully implemented. I came up with a list of 5 primary attributes that I feel will be essential to [...]

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