Well for years now, actually since the Big Daddy update, webmasters and SEOs have been pondering and discussing amongst themselves and the community whether Google has been penalizing or discounting links to a site because it is a reciprocal link. There is no need to wait any longer though…according to the new Google Webmaster Guidelines [...]
There has finally been an enhancement to the standardized sitemap protocol developed by Google, Yahoo and MSN – Autodiscovery. Autodiscovery gives siteowners the ability to easily share their sitemaps with all search engines at once, avoiding the overhead of manually submitting them to each search engine.
The protocol works as follows. Add the following line [...]
For years now SEO’s would tell writers and content creators to provide them with at least 250-300 words for each web page. But what does that number mean? Why 250 words? Well, after numerous years of experience, the broad SEO community had agreed that 250-300 was the magic number of words for ranking pages well [...]
I just finished reading theGoogleCache’s response to seo questions by rand fishkin and have to appreciate the time and effort that went towards running the experiments necessary to prove their points, however like most SEO experiments this one is flawed to an extent. First, I’d like to summarize the results as I do believe most [...]
Over a month ago, Google announced there would be a change in the algorithm that calculates landing page and site quality score. This change was intended to benefit AdWords users, advertisers, and publishers. However, Google never actually offered insight into what elements comprise a ‘quality’ landing page until now.
According to the Google AdWords Blog, the [...]
Duplicate content has plagued webmasters over the recent years because of its adverse effect in Google search rankings. For those of you who have not come across the duplicate content issue, here is a quick definition. Duplicate content refers to large blocks of web content that is exact or extremely similar to each other. This [...]
Google has recently released the top filtered user search terms of 2006. You may ask why are they filtered, well there is a simple answer to that. Otherwise they would all be sex related search terms! I’m sure everyone at Google gets a good laugh at those ones . Well without further adieu, here [...]