Hearing from a familiar voice, I’ve been inspired to get through a difficult period of time. Matt Cutts, someone who all of us in the SEO community have looked to for advice on how to build better websites to rank higher within google rankings, gives us a bit...
Earlier this year, we saw huge changes to google’s search results algorithm by the name of Panda and Penguin. It literally destroyed the traffic of many companies. It even made the main stream media. This Wall Street Journal article pointing to the drops in...
In the past few months, our traffic on our SEO Blog for primarily Google Searches has grown significantly. A majority of it’s come from people searching for terms like “most searched on google” or”top searches.” The question most people...
After Penguin’s destroyed the traffic for many businesses, companies have been trying to “rebuild” and cure themselves at all costs. We thought we would post some good links about some link building suggestions that companies may consider in order...
Google makes many changes to their algorithm annually (reported to be around 500+ or so a year), but the past 2 years have had two significant updates: Panda and Penguin. With the most recent Penguin update to their algorithm, we’ve seen some websites...
As usual, google’s trying to be as transparent as possible and listing what they’ve been doing to their search engine algorithm this past month. At the same time, they’re still not giving you the secret sauce, but just pointing to what the secret...
Late last year when Google decided to hide the source of the traffic to websites from organic searches, they had predicted that it would impact less than 10% of the searches. However, more sites are starting to complain that it’s growing to be much higher than...
As you may have seen, we’ve done a study with updates to it several times here in a a post called “Top Google Searches in 2012: The Most Popular Keywords Study.” However, there’s quite a bit of data we’ve aggregated and haven’t had...
My original post is hosted over at the Seattle SEO Network (to be published 4/30/2012) where I discuss in limited detail about some great posts/articles you should read about and a few personal thoughts about the changes. Take a look at the post by clicking on the...
Algorithm Change Penalties Can be Lifted for a Specific Website Recently, I had a search for “when will google lift penalty of april 2012” bring a visitor to our blog. We have a post that talks about when penalties can be lifted against a particular site...
Here’s an infographic by SEOBook that they like to call “Goldilocks SEO” we saw on Search Engine Land recently. There’s warnings about the “over optimization” penalty and how to deal with it like SEOMoz’s CEO Rand doing a...
This past month, we’ve seen a large increase in traffic from not only “quality” searches (291 visits at the time of this writing for the past 30 days), but also “fresh” searches that we didn’t have at all before this month. Looks...
This past month’s search market share stayed relatively the same. No big surprises or changes that rocked the search world. This month, however, yahoo only dropped .1% vs. last month dropping .3%. Despite search engine’s like Blekko claiming...
When visiting Search Engine Land, I noticed in their suggested articles that the 3rd Featured article at the bottom of the homepage was a story about how Blekko’s traffic increased (almost) 400%. However, regardless of what they say about the search engine that...
WordPress is a MUST for your CMS If you haven’t figured it out by now, WordPress is dominating the Content Management Systems (aka CMS) throughout the world. If you check out their WordPress Statistics Central Page, you’ll see in real time. Update:...
While there are many sources of Internet data that are paid, there happens to be more and more that are free. And for own edification, but also for yours as well, I thought I’d aggregate them all here and even say a few things about them. Associations provide a...
And another example was proven earlier when they dropped the rankings of a number of sites they thought were “parked domains.” It happens. Basically, google is constantly changing their algorithm and finding poor results from them. So, if you do notice...
It’s kind of cool when your #1 keyword that’s generating traffic to your website is “quality”. Obviously, you can see the dreaded “not provided” is the #1 source (aka logged in users), but in terms of phrases that we can track,...
No, I’m not talking about getting fresh with your neighbor… Rather, just like I pointed out late last year, “freshness” of a website is making a big difference in your online presence – in terms of ranking with google. I pointed out 35%...
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