Google Search AI Empowered By Romance Novels
This may sound a little weird, right? Recently I wrote an article on Google’s RankBrain. Essentially, it is a part of Google’s algorithm which is noted as the third most important aspect of Google’s rankings – behind...
Spam – Manual Reviews Result In Restored Rankings 13% Of The Time
Google loves attacking spam through algorithm. This is their preferred method of fighting spam. Even so, last year Google manually adjusted the rankings of around 4.3 million websites in 2015. The rest of spam was tackled manually....
Quarter of SEOs Implementing Google AMP, Half Believe It Affects SEO
Google has a new platform called “Accelerated Mobile Pages”, which consists of a CDN (content delivery network) hosted by Google. It boasts huge speed gains on mobile platforms, but is it being adopted by the SEO community? According...
Does CTR Impact Rankings? The Debate Continues
Links are an overpowering stat when it comes to influencing rankings. However, 99.9% of pages on the internet do not have external links. Google has been working to add new things to its algorithms to return the best pages possible...
SEO Jobs and Salaries Go Down in 2016 – Why?
Search Engine Journal has an article about SEO jobs being on the decline. Following is an excerpt from that article: Looking at the top 20 cities in the US, there is a 7% overall decline in SEO jobs when comparing year over year data....
Recovering From Penguin – 301 Redirect Domain To Recover Rankings – Part 4
This is the fourth page of our Penguin recovery guide. The first page discusses saving your domain through balancing your on-page keyword density to match the overwhelmingly high exact-match anchors from incoming links that triggered...
Recovering From Penguin – Positive Signals vs Negative Signals – Part 3
The methods you use to recover from a Penguin related algorithm penalty are different, depending on your goals. Some people are ranking a brand and cannot change their domain, while others don’t care about the domain name as...
Recovering From Penguin – The Disavow Tool – Part 2
This is the second page on how to fix your site if it’s been hit by a Penguin related algorithm penalty. The first page talked about how the keyword density in your articles vs incoming anchor texts on links, how they’re...
Recovering from Penguin – Exact Match Anchors vs On-Page Keyword Density – Part 1
Penguin hit the blackhat community hard. It’s not often mentioned, but this update drove a significant portion of blackhat SEOers into leaving the industry for good. Suddenly, the cheap link packages and software that used to...
Google’s Topical PageRank, Like The Old PR But More Nichey
What is the topic of your site? If there is an overall theme, one specific niche that your pages are focused on, Google has a patent discussing onsite and offsite ranking factors, which makes use of relevance of pages on your own...