Tag Archives: Google

Google Says Forum Links Are Spam

With all of the changes with Google’s various algorithms there’s been some great questions being posted within the Google Webmaster forums and as of late a discussion has risen around whether or not placing a link to your website within a forum profile/signature of yours would cause any negative SEO effects. For those of us […]

Big Week For Google SEO – Panda 4.0 & Spam Algorithm 2.0 Launched

This is turning out to be a pretty big week in the SEO community as Google announces the release of version 2.0 of the Google Spam Algorithm, and a brand new Google Panda Algorithm (version 4.0). The Spam Algorithm was released over the weekend and confirmed by Matt Cutt’s yesterday via Twitter; while the new […]

Shocker – Content Length Doesn’t Actually Matter for SEO

There have always been plenty of myths in the world of SEO about what Google and various other search engines look for when crawling your website – and for years copy writers, bloggers, and webmasters were told to write content that is a minimum of 250 or 300 words long or else Google won’t index […]

StatCounter Browser Statistics for 2014 Released

StatCounter has been around for a while now, focused on offering in-depth traffic information about your website completely free of charge. Over the years StatCounter has developed quiet the network gathering data from over 2.5 million members with over 50 million page views each month. So naturally they have huge amounts of data about the different technologies used to access […]

Google Pokes Fun at BLINK & MARQUEE HTML

The <blink> and <marquee> tags are probably at the top of every single list of what to not do when building your website – and yet somehow you’ll still find sites making use of these functions. Granted there are a few times when marquee’s still come in useful – however these days you get more control […]

RIP Guest Blogging

So 2 days ago Matt Cutts called it – the death of guest blogging – at noon on 1/20/2014. Or at least the death of guest blogging for SEO purposes. A method that many SEO agencies have absolutely adored over the past few years. Okay, I’m calling it: if you’re using guest blogging as a way […]

Understanding the Importance of Referrer Logs

Referrer logging may not be a term you hear very often – however it is absolutely crucial to the success of your website and your marketing campaigns. See referrer logs are used to allow web servers and websites to identify where people are visiting them from – either for promotional or security purposes. They allow […]

Google Adsense: Your Content Better Not Suck

After a recent issue a client of mine had, I wanted to take a few minutes to touch base on proper use of Google Adsense. See among most webmaster forums you will find a plethora of people wondering how to make any substantial money from Google Adsense. I’m sure that many of you have heard this […]

New Google Manual Action for Image Mismatch

There is a new Google manual action that has came out recently, and one every webmaster should be fully aware of. This is Google’s new “image mismatch” manual action, which comes up when the images on your site don’t match up with what Google has indexed. Google has published a new help document on this […]

Google Bringing Back Favicons to Adsense

Back in July Google had introduced fav icons to their text ads – thus helping to increase click-thru rates. Unfortunately when Google announced their new Adsense formats back in September – these favicons were now removed. On October 15th, Google quietly mentioned on Google+ that they are working on bringing back the favicons. They said the […]

Matt Cutt’s Gives Warning About Using ‘Creative’ ccTLDs

Matt Cutt’s had answered a great question earlier this week about using ccTLD’s to create a unique domain name such as www.google.it for “Google It”. “Should I use ccTLDs for sites not targeted to those countries?” In-fact there is an awesome tool out there created by @case, @ceedub, @connor, and @rr called Domainr which quickly finds you some creative domain names that […]

Google Adsense Use Limited on Google Sites

Google Sites is Google’s way of letting everyone and anyone create a free website utilizing a pre-built template, and an online WYSIWYG editor; and of-course Google makes it easy to monetize your Google Sites website with Google Adsense (seeing a pattern here?). In the past you’ve always had full control over your Google Adsense ad […]

Google Now Displaying Favicons for Text Ads

Google is always adding something new to their huge portfolio of features, and recently I have started noticing that their Google Adwords text ads have began displaying the website favicons next to the title. Here is an example from this very website:

Google Makes a Stand Against Faked User Histories

Google has made a new post earlier this week, titled a A reminder about manipulative or deceptive behavior; and if you read it closely you’ll see that this isn’t so much a reminder, but a statement as to the next spam target for Google. Google states that “Recently, we’ve seen some user complaints about a deceptive technique […]

Free Google Adwords $100 Credit Giveaway 2013

All of my clients have always received a $100 Google Adwords credit to help them jump-start their online marketing. September of last year I ran a Google Adwords Credits giveaway to help give something back to the community. These were issued out at random to any new subscribers to our mailing list. For those of […]