As a website owner, you want people to see your website. One of the best ways for them to find your site is through a search engine. Your consumers type in a keyword phrase into a search engine search bar. If your site is related to that phrase, you want your site to come up […]
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Alternatives to Google Keyword Tool
Google no longer has the best keyword tool for website owners. A few months ago, the search engine king decided to rebrand its keyword tool to tie it into AdWords. It now serves people interested in AdWords more than it does people seeking the keywords their target audiences are using. This has come to a […]
What Is Google Penguin?
If you’ve been reading about SEO, you’ve probably seen “Google Penguin” thrown around a lot. It’s because it was a major algorithm change that made a lot of websites sink in ranking. Understanding what Google Penguin is and how you can use the information that came out of it can help you prepare for future […]
Link Building for your Website Helps your Brand
When you write a blog post you want people to link to it, right? I bet you do, because you’ve written some great content. You’re probably already aware that Google ranks websites higher when there are more links pointing to that website. However, are you aware that the quality of the links matter? Or that effective quality […]
Build Your Brand Authority with SEO
Building a brand isn’t easy. First, you need to figure out what your brand is going to be and then you need to market it. Marketing your brand is just as important as selling your services and products. While you’re marketing your brand, you should also start leveraging SEO strategies to improve the awareness of […]
Why You Need to use Google Plus for SEO
When optimizing your site for SEO, you probably concentrate your efforts on Google’s search engine. It’s the most widely used engine, so that makes sense. What also makes sense is that Google has a social network (Google+) that it uses to help rank websites. Google doesn’t do anything without intention. They devised a social network […]
Review: Scribe SEO WordPress Plugin
Reaching the top of search engine results page is a holy grail to every blogger or website owner. There were times when, by using simple tactics you could reach respectable place on search results page, but Google’s Panda and Penguin algorithm updates made those tactics “illegal”. And it was a fair response, because most of those […]
Site Architecture SEO Factors
Search engines are your biggest chance of getting free traffic. They present your site to your target audience. What more could you ask for? Of course, anything free doesn’t come easy. Search engine optimization (SEO) is important to the success of your online business. You need to design and run your site according to SEO […]
Google Penalties – How to Check Your Website for a Google Penalty
Even today Google’s bread and butter is still in their search algorithm. This is why Google will do everything to stop you from messing with their search engines. The quality of Google’s search experience is a key to why they are still the number one search engine to this day. As a result, you better watch out if your […]
How To Recover From A Google Manual Penalty
Black Hat SEO – this is a category of shady practices like buying links that seem so tempting when a snake oil salesman is telling you about it. But don’t even think about it! Nowadays, the black hat SEO-types are at war with Google as more businesses they were “helping” are getting penalized by the search giant.  Anything […]