Google planning major changes for Summer 2013
Over the past few weeks and months there has been much speculation and rumors surrounding changes coming in Google. Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s webspam team, has also hinted at changes to come. And while we don’t know when…
Negative SEO
Matt Cutts, from Google’s webspam team has posted a new video talking about “negative SEO”. We’ve been asked in the past about negative SEO – what it is, do we use it, can it negatively impact a website. So we…
What is Googlebot?
If you are dealing with a search engine marketing firm, or considering dealing with one, or even if you are just researching search engine optimization or Google and search engines in general, you have probably heard or read the word…
Think Ranking is Not Important? Think again!
There are a lot of people out there that will tell you that organic positioning is not important. Some go one to say that “as long as you are found on page 1 you are ok.” But some recent research…
Google’s New Link Disavow Tool – Should You Use It?
Google recently released a new tool which is supposed to help you let Google know that there are links pointing to your site that you would prefer they didn’t include when determining your site’s overall ranking. While it seems like…
Google Updates for September
Recently, Google announced 4 fairly new and major updates to some of its ranking algorithms. We don’t often hear of both the Panda and Penguin algorithms being updated together, but this is what just happened. Google also added another quality…
Site Down – Now What?
If your website is hosted on GoDaddy no doubt you were panicking yesterday as your site was down and you weren’t getting emails. This leads to the question: How do search engines like Google deal with a site that’s down…
Is Google PageRank Important?
There is a long running debate in the SEO world about whether Google’s PageRank and its corresponding algorithms have any value in SEO anymore. Some think that PageRank is an old tool that Google no longer uses while others think…
Page Load Speed – Is It Important?
About 2 ½ years ago Google announced that site speed was going to be a factor in rankings. And while not as important as content or links, site speed is a factor which can be easily improved to help influence…
Another Free Google Tool – Google AdWords
When people think of Google AdWords they don’t initially think of it as a free Google tool. But the truth of the matter is Google AdWords is not just for advertisers. It has some really helpful features that most people…
