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Google’s Panda update in June sent a large number of websites plumetting down the search engine rankings. This has left many SEO consultants and webmasters asking why is Google penalizing some good sites to get the bad ones?
There has been widespread discussion amongst webmasters and SEO experts as to what is the best approach to get their sites out…
Yahoo! have just announced that will be shutting down their much loved Yahoo! Site Explorer tool later this year as they finalise the merger of Bing and Yahoo! organic results.
Personally, I find it disappointing to see the end for site explorer which has been one of my most frequently used link checking tools for ineedhits.com and…
Some things are just difficult to get over! And Google’s ‘PageRank’ metric or PR is something that webmasters refuse to get over even though the feature was removed from the Google webmasters tool two years ago!
PageRank, in the past, was one of the 200 signals that Google used to crawl, index and rank web pages. Ever since Google removed…
Getting your homepage indexed in Google is only the 1st step to your SEO success. It’s important that all your key web pages are indexed and appearing for relevant searches.
For new websites (or poorly promoted websites), they often suffer from poor indexing which means you’re getting limited value from your Google exposure.
Below are 5 tips to help improve…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock this past week, then you would have heard what practically everyone (and I mean everyone!) is talking about, Google+.
The search giant last week released a brand new social network and it wasn’t long before it was given the label of ‘the Facebook killer”. But will this really be the case?…
Social media is probably already a key part of your marketing strategy (if it’s not…crawl out from under that rock).
But as many of you will attest, doing social media marketing effectively is a rather time consuming process. And when time’s a commodity that many small business owners lack, it helps to have tools to streamline the process.
Now before…
Hitwise UK has released new data which confirms the value of building a strong facebook presence for your business. According to their research, each new fan acquired on facebook is worth an additional 20 visitors to your website over the course of a year!
To gather this data, the UK study looked at data from the top…
It’s well known that your home page is the most important page on your website. It’s your visitors “first impression” of your whole website and also the main page listed in the search engine results, so it had better be good.
One thing to consider on your home page is the number of words it contains. What is the optimal…
With many businesses having both an offline, as well as an online presence, much of the time the two operate as 2 separate entities. Having the two elements work hand in hand can really give your business a boost, as what the customer sees in one area will be reinforced in full on the other.
I’ve outlined 7 handy tips…
When you do a search for your business name, how many pages appearing in the Top 10 of Google do you directly control?
Effectively controlling the Top 10 listing in Google can help convert more customers, as many people use search engines to learn more about your company. The more pages that you control means that you can direct the…