Search Engine Tips

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:

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 [...]

Let’s face it. Link building can be a scary thing if you have never really put any serious effort into doing it. After all, who needs to build links when you can just write killer articles and let your readers take care of the rest for you. Believe it or not, some top bloggers and [...]

So you want to get more traffic to your WordPress blog? One way to do that is by optimizing each and every post for your blog. Your content always going to be play a big role on how your visitors perceive your website and your business as a whole. However, if you have spent a [...]

2009 is finally over, and it has been one busy year in the field of search engine optimization. We are no longer in the predictable era of search engine optimization. Google, Bing, and other top search engines are jumping on the latest trends and changing the way we all search. Personalized Search is going to [...]

Throwing big words around is often used by consultants to justify the big bucks that they are getting. Let’s say you have a meeting with a client, and you start throwing around acronyms and big words. There is a good chance that you can impress the individual if they are simple enough to get impressed [...]

That’s the claim many have made in the past, and it is interesting to look at. An orphan page is one that is not linked from any other page from your site. That pretty much makes it difficult for search engine robots to navigate through those pages. Search engine robots are not that smart to [...]

If you have been reading SEO news lately, you have probably heard webmasters complaining about getting penalized for duplicate content. Search engines do frown upon duplicate content. The reason is, it is a short-cut to add content to your site, and it adds no value for the searcher. But how serious is the penalty for [...]

One of the most interesting aspects of SEO industry is the fact that there are so many self-proclaimed experts who claim to know everything about search engines. Some of the consultants swear on their parents’ graves about the effectiveness of some of their techniques. Now here is the thing. Nobody knows for sure what works [...]

Search engine optimization is now being used by more companies to take advantage of the so-called “free traffic” on search engines. So the obvious general terms are becoming super competitive. It’s not to say that you can’t get ranked for broad terms, but the conversion won’t be that great even if you manage to rank [...]