The Penguin Update: With Every Google Update There is Opportunity
Fri, 04 May 2012 14:01:37 +0000

The last Google update dubbed "Penguin" has had a far reaching impact that seems well beyond the 3% that the company had predicted.  The foretold intent was to target web spam, but reports of high quality websites that never did a day of link building in their lives have been hit by the not-so-friendly fire [...] Related posts:

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Copywriter Pandemic
Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:33:39 +0000

Don’t panic but if you see a sick looking chicken doing SEO updates on your machine one day… RUN AWAY! I’ve worked with a small, but perfectly formed, online agency for about 18 months now and regularly produce, along with other copywriters, blog posts for the agency’s site.  We also produce guest posts on other [...] Related posts:

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What will Matter in SEO in 2012?
Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:39:42 +0000

SEO is an evolving process. It doesn’t remain static for a year at a time ever. The Internet and the way that consumers use it changes all of the time and SEOs must respond to that. In addition, Google and Bing alike are getting better at delivering higher quality results – in essence at the [...] Related posts:

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5 Tips For Making Your Website Panda Friendly
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:08:21 +0000

Earlier this year, Google released a new algorithm change which is commonly known as the Panda update.  This update uses a variety of metrics defined by human reviewers to figure out the level of quality that a site has. The introduction of this update makes it much harder for low-quality and scraper sites to rank [...] Related posts:

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What Google’s New Adwords Placement Means for Search
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:47:40 +0000

Have you noticed that Adwords advertisements are now showing up at the bottom of the search results on Google?  There is some testing going on right now with Google, but every test has a purpose and gives us some insight to what is going on the giant search engine’s brain. In this post we will [...] Related posts:

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My Theory on the October 14th Google Update
Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:54:33 +0000

On October 14th or 15th (depending on where you live) there was a pretty major Google algorithm update.  Matt Cutts said in a tweet that it would only effect about 2% of websites, but from what I am reading it has had a much broader effect than just 2%. Having had some of my websites [...] Related posts:

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Why It is Important to Have a Social Media Friendly Website
Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:06:09 +0000

Author’s intro: This article has been written by Dr. Fortie which is a small business consultant and editor of the business administration courses online website. Aministrationcourses.net is a free blog used by the people who want to get more info about degrees in business administration to improve their business skills. E. Fortie is available by [...] Related posts:

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So I Rank #1 in Google: Now What?
Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:30:44 +0000

When you are first starting out in internet marketing or just launching a new website, your only concern is probably to get more traffic.  You target a keyword and then try to get as many quality links to the site as possible.    But what happens AFTER you rank #1 for your keyword?  What happens if [...] Related posts:

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How to Know if Buying That Website is a Good Idea
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:43:33 +0000

I recently bought a website for $250, and I know it was a great deal.  In this article I will step through my thought process and how I knew I could make my money back within 3 months just from the money made with the website.  Hope this will be a help to some of [...] Related posts:

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SEO Firms Are Expensive and Google Wants it That Way
Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:57:20 +0000

Have you looked at the prices that SEO firms are charging these days?  Some SEO companies are charging as much as $5,000 a month, and for what they offer it’s hard to justify paying that kind of money. But have you thought about the fact that Google wants SEO to be expensive. Think about it.  [...] Related posts:

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