Google Penguin really caught the SEO world flat-footed. Overnight, a lot of online business empires started to crumble; thanks to this dreaded update. By tightening up its expectations regarding backlink quality, Google really put the fear in the hearts of many online entrepreneurs regarding
how they should link to other websites. After Penguin dropped and the initial carnage cleared up, ...
There’s a lot of SEO myths floating around on the internet. One of the hardest to kill myths out there is the whole idea that Google is somehow factoring in social media mentions and social media mentions in how to rank your webpage for a particular keyword.
This gets a lot of people excited, because social ...
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There are many micro-outsourcing platforms offering outsourced services to people looking for back links. These micro-outsourcing platforms can actually do your website more harm than good. Seriously.
If you order many of these micro-outsourcing SEO services, you can say goodbye to whatever rankings you currently have. Make no mistake about it. After Google Penguin rolled out, the name of the game ...
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It used to be very easy to make thousands of dollars every single month with SEO. Seriously, it was. Back in 2009, all you needed to do was to get the right list of keywords and everything else pretty much fell into line. You only need to create junk articles based on those keywords, use software to build all sorts ...
After Google Penguin rolled out, it has gotten harder and harder to get back links. If you are looking to build back links in an ethical and clean way, it has really been a tough road to hoe. Seriously. In fact, it has gotten so tough that guest posting is under a lot of scrutiny by Google.
This should not be ...
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Prior to Google Penguin, how other sites linked to your site didn’t matter. What mattered to Google was how you linked out from your site. Penguin dropped and now, how other sites linked to your website can impact your rankings. Penguin was very harsh. Lots of websites got hammered hard because they were very sloppy in how they built ...
Old school SEO was much simpler for the spammers. You only needed to compile a list of sites that would publish content with very little editorial oversight. In fact, many of these article directory sites and link directory sites simply provide a form anyone can fill out. As long as you target the right keywords and you filled out enough of these ...
Whether you run a start-up or own a thriving online property, your inbox has probably been hit at least more than twice by an SEO ‘agency’ making all sorts of promises regarding your rankings. And, to top it all off, they are offering to give you such near-miraculous results at rock bottom prices. If you’ve gotten such emails, don’t worry-you are hardly ...
A lot of digital agencies have their very own catchphrase or ‘summary statement’ for SEO. The usual suspects involve anything from the old standby ‘quality content,’ to ‘value-added online branding’ to ‘relationship-based SEO’ to the ever-so-catchy and trendy ‘growth hacking.’ While there is a lot of value to these concepts, they tend to nip at the edges of the core fundamental of earning backlinks in the Age of ...
Backlinks are important when it comes to search engine optimization. Search engines use backlinks and other signals in determining how high to rank your website for certain keyword queries. It’s important to know that the higher the quality of the backlinks you get, the higher you will rank on Google. However, you have to solve one huge problem: how do you get high quality backlinks? The good news ...