Search Engine Tips

Many webmasters rely on ads to monetize their content. Research has shown time and time again that ads in the header convert very well. But that’s not what Google wants to see. According to Google’s Inside Search blog, blogs with too many ads above the fold are going to be penalized. The penalties started to [...]

Google+ is a growing community. It may not have as many members as Facebook and Twitter yet. But the community is expected to reach new heights in the next couple of years. Considering that it is being run by Google, you’d be out of your mind not to invest some time building your presence in [...]

Many webmasters constantly worry about losing their search engine rankings. That is a huge issue to be concerned about if you make the majority of your revenue from monetizing your search traffic. Too many webmasters try to take shortcuts when it comes to developing their portals. By having great content on your website all the [...]

Many webmasters have been wondering about the limits of what Google quality raters can do. Can they possibly cause a site to lose its rankings? Some have speculated that if multiple quality raters raise a red flag on a URL, it would lose its ranking. Matt Cutts has taken time to debunk that:

Google is the most powerful search engine on the planet (arguably). Knowing how to use Google and all its features to their fullest is a must for searchers and search engine professionals. When you know how to use the right queries to look up what you need, you can get things done that much faster. [...]

Google+ has just enabled Google+ Pages for brands. Some people have expressed doubts about the way Google has gotten started with Pages. In reality, if you are a business owner, you can not afford to sit in the sidelines. The jury is still out on how well Google+ pages will rank in the search engines [...]

Let’s face it. We all have spell-checkers these days. Not editing the work you publish online is not the best way to make the best impression on your visitors. There have been rumors that Google may use spelling and grammar to separate professional quality websites from the rest. As Matt Cutts has explained in the [...]

The idea of creating thousands of pages full of junk just to make a decent amount of money from ads is appealing to a lot of SEOs. I have personally come to know individuals who have made a ton of money this way from AdSense and other networks. Being a good content farmer does not [...]

Many of us are using WordPress to power up our WordPress comments. Many folks use the number of comments they get to gauge the level of interest in their websites. The Facebook Comments system makes the process of leaving comments much easier for your visitors. Since people will have to use their real names to [...]

In the past few months, I have heard from many “experts” who claim Google Panda has made the quality of search results better. As others have pointed this out in the past, not all is well after the implementation of Google Panda. Not only there are a ton of “Google-related” sites in the SERPs, posts [...]