Einstein once said, “The formulation of the problem is often more important than the solution” and in the case of trying to figure out why your website has lost traffic or ranking, this couldn’t be more true! The first thing to do in a dicey SEO situation is, Don’t Hit The Panic Button! One of [...]
To Properly track the visitors of your site is the first and foremost critical step of collecting reconnaissance traffic data. Without it, you’re lost like a blind man in an orgy trying to feel things out. There are no clear instructions for installing Google Analytics to track multiple subdomains or two different domains in the [...]
Is Article Marketing Dead? The question isn’t whether or not article marketing is dead; The real question is how to adapt your article marketing to a post Panda SEO era. After watching the top article directories loose anywhere from 50% to 80% of their traffic, it’s clear that a new strategy is well overdue. Matt [...]
In 2003, I was a real estate agent living in Orlando, FL sharing an office with a mortgage company. Together we spent tens of thousands of dollars buying sales leads until I learned the magic of SEO, PPC campaigns and telemarketing. Within 4 months, I was generating more real estate and mortgage leads than we [...]
Link Wheels still work after Panda if they are white hat and manually built to be 100% compliant with Google Webmaster Guidelines. Black-hat tools like SEnuke that can automate this task, can and will get your website penalized. Content based link wheels are not only effective on mainstream sites but also with porn and other [...]
Google has been cleared of all anti-trust and anti-competitive charges as the FTC has dropped all charges and closed all investigations against Google. This comes just a few months after Google was ordered to pay a record $22.5 million to settle previous FTC charges for “Misrepresented Privacy Assurances to Users of Apple’s Safari Internet Browser”. [...]
Is .XXX Internet Censorship? Adult content is under attack and even Google is getting in on the censorship with their new SafeSearch algorithm update that was deployed on Dec. 11th 2012. Furthermore, Google has also banned the use of Webmaster Tools, Analytics or any other Google services with .xxx domains. It’s clear that this whole [...]
Google Advanced Operators are basically, extra commands that you type into Google that help you filter your search. Think of them as searching short-cuts to help you find what you need easier and faster. Google has always had Advanced Search Operators and often released new ones, unannounced. Some of us SEOs out there stumbled across [...]
Without any official announcement, Google rolled out a new algorithm update that changes the way adult websites are ranked and included new adult safety features in their “SafeSearch” setting in Google Images. This is a major update that impacts adult SEO and Google quietly deployed it on December the 11th 2012. This new algo update affects [...]
Google has been placing an ever increasing emphasis on social media in their ranking algorithms and some even argue that “adult social signals” are or will soon be more important than links! Rob from Pivoweb.com who commented on Matt Cutts’ blog put it the best when he said, “The more Google relies on social signals [...]
