In yesterdays post on Webmaster Central Blog Google has announced yet more updates to their SE algo which would affect 3.1% of English queries (as well as queries in other languages). The update targets backlink schemes, keyword stuffing and other signals Google didn’t divulge in the post.
Google Plus Ownage
Google Plus Ownage by Dylan Loh and Peng Joon
The Third Way
The Third Way by Rich Williams and Chris X
Local SEO Crusher
Local SEO Crusher by Mark Dulisse
SEO Experts Academy
SEO Experts Academy by Matt Carter and Terry Kyle
Tracking Phone Conversions with Google AdWords Call Metrics
Analytics and ecommerce have completely changed our outlook on marketing. We’ve forgotten (happily) what it’s like to have the customer walk in, buy and walk out never really knowing if they saw our billboard, heard our radio ad, or were driving by and liked our sign. As easily as breathing, we track our conversions on our PPC campaigns, we measure how much traffic we get from natural search and calculate the ROI on our SEO spend. However, there are still plenty of companies who don’t use their site to sell online in a manner that is traceable via a computer. Many “sales” for online businesses require that they be completed using a fax or a telephone. For example, Prodpromo gets 100% of their business through Internet traffic; they do not have any external sales source. However, not a single transaction is completed online. How can Prodpromo track their sales? Many other types of businesses also have this problem. Any accounting firm, law firm, or doctor might be using the Internet to generate leads, not complete sales. Tracking these types of customers requires a little ingenuity and the implementation of a good phone conversion tracking system.
Raising Your Page Rank and Avoiding Duplicate Content
Google is the most used search engine on the web. Most households will set it as their home page and use it for all their searching needs. Businesses should work hard to promote their company pages on Google and reach for the top positions (those being the most frequently viewed). However there are many times when content is duplicated either on purpose or on accident in order to make the top of the list.
Duplicated content is content that is replicated on the same domain or on multiple domains. Sometimes it is purposefully done or on accident. However, duplicating content can considerably lower a business’s rank on Google.
Google Siphon
Google Siphon by Mohamed Ali is a method of creating small websites and ranking them on Google.
How to Use Google Analytics to Make Affiliate Income Faster
The hardest thing for most Internet marketers is focus. They’ll try one scheme, then decide it’s not working. Or they think they need 50 websites in order to make enough money, so they burn out trying to keep them all going. The truth is you only need a few pages of really solid content to make a full-time income. And if you focus on building those few pages, instead of flitting back and forth between strategies, tools and advertisers, you’ll do much better.
5 Ways To Get High Quality Backlinks: Avoid Getting Your Website Penalized or Banned By Google
You just finished designing, developing and writing the content for your website. In addition to this, you were proactive each step of the way and made sure that all your on-page SEO ducks were in a row (properly inserting keywords in your title tags, h1 tags, content, alt tags; not excessively using javascript and html; using static and seo-friendly url slugs, followed keyword density best practices etc).
Now, the most difficult step to making sure your website ranks well and is seen by search engine users is linkbuilding. Not only is linkbuilding time-consuming but Google weighs the value of each backlinks differently so you never really know how much a particular backlink will benefit your website. In most cases, though, getting an in-text backlink from a popular and respected website (in the eyes of Google) will help you more than a backlink acquired from an unpopular, unread and un-followed website.
SitePoint’s SEO Business Guide
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Free Traffic Mogul
Free Traffic Mogul by Jeff Alderson is a traffic generation software for getting traffic from Google.
Emerald 11
Emerald 11 by Bill McRea and Mike Williams is an automated traffic solution.
Google in 60 Seconds
Google in 60 Seconds by Aaron Darko is a method to rank on the first page of Google fast.
Keyword Meta Tags are Being Ignored by Google
You know those little meta keyword tags that you work so hard to fill with meaningful words related to your business? Well, according to Matt Cutts, a Google Software Engineer, they’re useless when it comes to Googles organic search results. In fact, Google is ignoring these tags completely when ranking sites in their search results.
Optimising for All Areas of Google (Not Just Google Search)
Over the years, Google has evolved from a simple search engine into a universal essential resource for shopping, local events, local and international news, learning and development and much more.
As Google’s capabilities and services have grown and developed, I turn my attention to how the introduction of new products and services by Google has changed the face of SEO and online marketing.
First of all, let’s look at some of different Google products (outside of standard Google Search) that should be optimised for.
Google Places Unleashed
This is an entry for Google Places Unleashed, a course on offline marketing with Google Local SEO by Mario Brown.
Rapid Free Traffic
This is an entry for Rapid Free Traffic, an SEO software by Marc Lindsay & Daniel Turner.
Link Liberation 2.0
This is an entry for Link Liberation 2.0 an SEO training course and software by Leslie Rohde and Dan Thies.
G Headshot
G Headshot is a software and internet marketing course by Jani G and Dylan Loh that should enable marketers to make passive income.