Video SEO Best Practices

Video SEO best practices are something that a majority of websites could use but often put-off because of cost and time. But website owners can actually leverage some or all of video SEO best practices without spending a lot and without having to invest too much time. In fact, just the presence of one video […]

Are You Undermining Your Website SEO?

Website SEO is shrouded in mystery to most people. What it is and how it works is too complicated, too technical and too confusing to make it worth while to learn. So, businesses hire Website SEO services to do the work for them.  And many Website SEO companies do the job they are hired to do, at […]

SEO Dictionary: NOFOLLOW

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Attribute used to prevent a link from passing link authority. Commonly used on sites with user generated content, like in blog comments. The code to use nofollow on a link appears like anchor text Nofollow can also be used in a robots meta tag to prevent a search engine from counting any outbound links on […]

What is More Effective for SEO: Social Media, Infographics or Article Directories?

One question that arises in basic SEO strategy implementation is about the use of article directories, article marketing, infographics and of course, social media. Each seems has an attraction but determining which is the most valuable can be difficult. Search engines essentially ask the same question. The answer is to attempt to arrive at the […]

Over Optimization and Google Penalization

Do not over optimize SEO...

Purchasing backlinks. Keyword stuffing above the fold. Cloaking. Hidden text. All are considered black hat SEO. But what about going pedal to the metal with legitimate techniques? “Over optimization” is the euphemism used by Google’s own Webspam engineer, Matt Cutts, referring to ambitious site owners wanting to get their page to the top of search […]

How to measure Keyword Density and SEO

Keyword density and SEO, how the relationship has changed. Years ago, when the Internet was young and the search engines less sophisticated, a website designer or owner could simply put up a site and load it with keywords. The site didn’t even have to be exactly relevant to those keywords, just enough to make it […]

Article Directory SEO: Effective or Ineffective?

Article directory SEO is something that seems to have positive optimization effects for off-page campaigns. But after the Panda and Penguin updates, the question of their effectiveness has been the subject of much speculation. Since Google doesn’t often share much of its inner workings, it is difficult to gauge how much impact article directory SEO […]

How to Lift a Manual Penalty by Google

No one wants to get hit with a manual Google penalty. It essentially means being–at least temporarily–removed from the search engine’s query results page. But in the worst case scenario, it means being removed from Big G’s index, and that spells d-e-a-t-h to practically any website. So, what’s the difference, you might ask. Well, Google […]

Google Search Quality Updates – February 7th

We all heard about the dreaded Google Panda update back in 2011. Hopefully you’re site has recovered from the update. Well, let me rephrase that, your methods should be re-evaluated as we all know that duplicate, non-useful content is no good for the Internet. This is Google’s game, they control the gateway to the Internet. […]