Five Google Filtering Penalties, Which Are You Suffering From?
Google has expectations of content and link building practices that are considered natural. By going outside the boundaries of what is considered normal, your pages get a filtering penalty, so they don’t show in Google’s...
How to Rank in Bing and Yahoo
Bing’s market share is steadily increasing. They made a deal with Yahoo to serve their ads there. Yahoo made a deal with Firefox to be the default search engine provider, which is steadily increasing Bing’s market share....
User Metrics – Important Ranking Factors in 2016
Google is getting better at determining which sites are propped up solely by link schemes. Certainly, in 2016, Google will still be counting links as a primary method of ranking your site. However, a larger emphasis will be placed...
It’s a Fact, Getting Clicked Boosts Your Rankings
Getting clicks in Google boosts your rankings. It’s unknown if it’s a temporary boost, or a permanent boost — but one way to have your rankings skyrocket is to get clicks. This happens even when the traffic is fake....
Author Rank 2015: Google’s Stealth Ranking Signal
Nearly a year ago, Danny Sullivan declared that authorship was dead, but author rank is not. You wouldn’t know that it isn’t dead, based on the last year’s interweb discussions. Who is talking about Author Rank in...
Top 5 Easy Positive Signals to Send Google
Ranking in Google is all about sending as many positive signals as you can, while also avoiding negative signals. Here are the easiest positive signals you can broadcast to Google. Of course, building high quality links is the most effective thing...
Google Patents vs Building an Effective Blog Network
Whether you’re constructing a blog network of web2.0 free blogs, or a private blog network, the goal of any descent SEO is to build links to their site, and some take the route of building a blog network to help them get links....
Google Mind Tricks vs Low Quality Signals
Your domain has new links to it. It’s not evident yet whether the links were credible enough, and Google wants to figure out if they’re legit or if you built them yourself. It is interesting to read Google patents, where...