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10 Things I Care More About Than Google Plus Votes 21 Aug 2013 | 09:21 pm
There was a bit of a fuss yesterday on whether or not votes (or related activity) on Google’s social network leads to better rankings. The title of this article popped into my head, and the following...
What Does Google Mean By A Level Playing Field? 21 Aug 2013 | 09:19 pm
What about the people optimizing really hard and doing a lot of SEO. We don’t normally pre-announce changes but there is something we are working in the last few months and hope to release it in the n...
Verdict: A ‘Prolonged, Sustained’ Sin Bin For Google Manual Actions On Artificial Links 21 Aug 2013 | 09:18 pm
The penalty box (sometimes called the sin bin, bad box, or simply bin) is the area in ice hockey, rugby league, rugby union and some other sports where a player sits to serve the time of a given penal...
Matt Cutts Debunks Google Plus Votes as Important Ranking Factors 20 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
Do Google +1′s Improve rankings in Google natural SERPS? There’s a lot of strange seo news about at the moment. Mostly down to ‘correlation’ studies showing Google Plus votes correlation with high ran...
Unnatural Links Warning? Your Backlinks Will Need MANUALLY Checked 9 Aug 2013 | 03:02 pm
There’s no one tool out there I trust more than myself to identify problematic links in a backlink profile. A tool can work out obvious spammy sites but no link analysis tool can determine out overall...
Which Search Engine Gives The Best Linkbuilding Advice? 9 Aug 2013 | 03:01 pm
Unless you have no clue about what is going on and think GooglePlus counts are the number one ranking factor, you’ll realise building high quality links to your site is STILL the single most important...
The Simplest White Hat SEO Tip? 9 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Somebody asked me about this and I thought what was probably the most simple thing anyone can do. The chart above illustrates a reasonably valuable 4 word term I noticed a page I had didn’t rank high ...
Ding Ding. Google v Payday Loans SERPS in the UK 12 Jun 2013 | 04:08 am
Google has declared they are rolling out more changes to combat ‘spammy’ SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages) like “payday loans”. What’s interesting is Google doesn’t often tell us a specific SERP is ...
Website Lost Rankings in Google? Say Hello to Penguin 2. 23 May 2013 | 07:25 pm
We started rolling out the next generation of the Penguin webspam algorithm this afternoon (May 22, 2013), and the rollout is now complete. About 2.3% of English-US queries are affected to the degree ...
How To Put Your Company Logo On Google SERPS 16 May 2013 | 06:02 am
You can now put your company logo on search results using simple code, placed on the home page of your website: Today, we’re launching support for the schema.org markup for organization logos, a way t...
