How to Do Online Reputation Management
Before writing this, I checked out what others were saying about ORM, or “online reputation management”. There were advice about how to be kind and reply responsibly to the people making bad reports about you. They’re...
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...
How to Create Websites Right On Your Windows Laptop, Part 2 of 2
This is part 2 of how to create websites right on your computer, or your windows VPS. The last page ended discussing that we’re going to tell Apache that your website is now located on your computer. We will create a directory...
How to Create Websites Right On Your Windows Laptop, Part 1 of 2
Sticking a web server on your computer is an essential skill that every SEO should have. Not only will this allow you to rapidly develop websites (even at times when you have no internet connection), it will allow you to do some cool...
5 Weird Negative Ranking Factors and What You Can Do About It
It is unknown whether Google specifically targets these negative ranking factors, even when it has a patent that mentions it. Matt Cutts often says, “Just because we have a patent, doesn’t mean we use that in the algorithm.”...
15 Keyword Ranking Factors That Can Remove Your Site From The SERPs, Part 3 of 3
This is page 3 of our ranking factors that are centered around keywords. On the previous page, I had just finished discussing site-wide relevancy of keywords, as well as LSI. I’m going to continue down the same path with longtail...
15 Keyword Ranking Factors That Can Remove Your Site From The SERPs, Part 2 of 3
Here we continue discussing fifteen ranking factors that are based on keyword density. On the former page, we discussed proper keyword densities for your pages, and using your keywords in title, H-tags, bold, italics and links. Below...