I spend a few hours each day helping site owners and business owners recover from the dreaded Google Penguin algorithm update. I thought that I had received crazy emails from site owners who don’t know how to update their website. But it’s also amazingly hilarious to me when I run into a site owner who doesn’t even know that certain pages exist on their website. [Read more…]
Why This Website Owner Won’t Remove a Low Quality Link
Wow, I now have heard it all. Seriously. There are reasons why website owners will not remove a link from their low quality website to your website when asked, but this one really takes the cake. For a little background, I routinely help website owners clean up the links to their website as part of my Google Penguin Recovery services. Not only do I identify low quality and toxic links to websites, I help remove those links from the web. [Read more…]
Google Hosts Low Quality Article Directory with Links They Want Us to Remove
Oh, the irony. Google is hosting the very articles that contain links that Google is telling us that they want removed. Wait. What?!? That’s right, in what can only be a unique twist of irony, Google is playing web host to thousands of low quality spammy articles, the exact same type of articles that Google wants us to remove. And the links that they’re penalizing websites for having. [Read more…]
Shady Search Engine Optimization Firms Still Hurting SEO Industry
I am still amazed that shady search engine optimization firms are still relying on what I would call shady marketing techniques like sending UCE Spam (UCE stands for Unsolicited Commercial Email), trying to get more search engine optimization business. It is the companies like the ones detailed below that send emails like the one below that is truly hurting the search engine optimization industry as a whole.
Fresh Content Is Crucial To SEO
One of the biggest things that anyone needs to know about search engine optimisation, or SEO, is that fresh content is still king. Letting a website sit dormant for months or even weeks can cause it to fall behind. It can quickly become outdated. The search results ranking will drop, potentially falling out of the top 10 search results or first page, which is where the vast majority of people look for their keyword search query. In order to use local SEO in Brisbane to your advance in order to stay on those top pages, site owners have to focus on fresh, high quality content as much as possible. [Read more…]
Linked from These Directories? Be Prepared To Pay for Removal
There’s a search engine optimization company out there that is requiring that you pay for removal if you want your link removed from their directory. This same SEO company built these web directories several years ago, touting the fact that they would help your search engine rankings if you were to get listed. Now they want payment for removal of your link.
If you have a link on one of these directories, then expect to pay $25 for each link to be removed: [Read more…]
Get Your Site on Google’s Front Page Search
Have you received an email (usually an unsolicited email) from someone offering to get your site on Google’s front page? Well, I get these all the time, from companies that claim that they can help a website’s search engine rankings. The problem, though, is that even with all of the Google algorithm updates, including Google Penguin and Google Panda, the SEO scammers (as I’d like to call them) are still sending out these emails, touting their SEO services: [Read more…]
Business Owner Offers Free Advice On How to Rank Quickly in Google Without SEO; With a Catch
A business owner in Columbus, Ohio is offering fellow business owners free advice on how to rank quickly in the Google search results while staying away from costly SEO firms and using Search Engine Optimization to rank number one in Google. But there’s only one catch. This free advice comes with only one requirement: businesses must set up or switch their credit card processing function to his company. [Read more…]
Dear Shady SEO Firm: Stop Spreading Rumors about Unnatural Links and Google Penalties
Dear Shady SEO Firm:
Would you please stop, immediately, from spreading false and untrue rumors about the Google Disavow Tool? By spreading false rumors, you’re hurting the SEO industry as a whole and making it even more difficult for us honest, Google-Webmaster-Acceptable-Guideline-Abiding SEOs to get our jobs done properly. And don’t even think about threatening website owners about removing links to your client websites. That’s just flat out wrong. [Read more…]
Multiple Reconsideration Requests Might Result in Another Google Warning
If you file multiple reconsideration requests after your website was manually penalized by Google, then there is a good chance that Google will give you another warning. That warning message from Google might just ask you to wait a few weeks before you file another reconsideration request. [Read more…]
Use Google URL Removal Tool to Help with Google Penguin Recovery
Google has launched an improved URL removal tool that will make it easier to request updates based on changes on other people’s websites. But there is actually another use for this tool: it can be used to aid in a website’s Google Penguin Recovery if your site has been hit by Google Penguin. [Read more…]
The Anatomy of a Google Reconsideration Request: Manual Link Penalty
As you know, I have helped numerous businesses and site owners respond to Google’s manual link penalties. And get those manual link penalties removed or revoked by Google. Every site is unique, every website has different links pointing to them, and some have more bad links than others. And not all sites have received manual link penalty messages from Google. If you’re suffering from a Google penalty or manual action, I offer a Google Penalty Recovery Service to help you get rid of that penalty. But first, let’s talk about tye type of penalty your website has, which can vary. [Read more…]
Google Manual Penalty: After Penalty is Removed, You Must Regain Trust
If your website has been manually penalized by Google and you get that manual penalty revoked after you file a Google reconsideration request, it will take some time for Google to trust your website again. Your website might start to receive traffic again via the organic search results, but that traffic will NOT suddenly come back. [Read more…]
29 Things That Every SEO Should be Thankful For This Thanksgiving 2013
It’s the day before Thanksgiving, November 27, 2013, and that’s got me thinking: as an SEO in 2013, what should we be thankful for? Well, I have come up with a list of things that every SEO should be thankful for this year. Certainly, these aren’t in any order of importance. They’re just things that I really think we, as SEOs in 2013, should be thankful for. Some are on my list “just because”, some are a complete joke (ha, ha), and others truly help me get my job done. If you’d like to add anything to the list, feel free to comment. [Read more…]
Now Accepting Bitcoin as Payment for SEO Services
Starting today, I am going to go out on a limb (well, not exactly) to offer Bitcoin as payment for search engine optimization services. Starting on November 24, 2013, I am now offering one of my most sought-after services, an Search Engine Optimization Audit of a website (under 50 pages) for 1 bitcoin (which, at the current exchange rate, is equal to about $824 US Dollars. You can find out the latest exchange rate here. [Read more…]
It is Time to Re-Evaluate Meta Description Tags
Here we go again. It looks like it’s time to re-evaluate meta description tags, another standard web element that has been around ever since the beginning of the internet (or it seems that way). Of course we know that the meta keywords tag became useless about 10 years ago, when website owners were obviously keyword stuffing the meta keywords tag with all sorts of keywords. It was obvious to everyone, or obvious to most, that we don’t really need the meta keywords tag. But now the meta description tag? Really? [Read more…]
Behr Paint Now Offering SEO and Search Engine Marketing Services
Wow, that’s one headline that I thought I would NEVER write. But, apparently Behr Paint (Behr Process Corporation) is now offering search engine optimization and search engine marketing services to registered BehrPro professionals. Local businesses can now get their paint and their search engine optimization and search engine marketing services from the same company. [Read more…]
Google Penguin Recovery: Did Your Site Suffer from the Google Penguin Algorithm Update?
How can you tell whether or not your website has suffered a traffic loss or some sort of penalty as a result of the Google Penguin updates? And if your website actually did suffer a traffic loss, you actually might not know it: especially if you are looking at your Google Analytics. Recently, I took a look at a site’s Google Analytics to see if the site suffered from Google Panda, Google Penguin, and if my intervention into the Google Penguin recovery process was needed. [Read more…]
Google Image Mismatch Penalty: What is It?
There is a manual Google penalty called the Google Image Mismatch penalty. What exactly is the Google Image Mismatch penalty, and how can you prevent from getting penalized by Google for issues related to your images? Barry Schwartz first reported about this penalty. [Read more…]
How to Stop Google from Encrypting Your Searches
I recently spoke at the Pubcon Conference in Las Vegas, and one of the big issues that came up was the fact that Google is no longer providing keyword search data to website owners. [Read more…]