So we got a fresh Google PageRank update when we were made to believe that there wasn’t going to be one, but Matt Cutts said he would be surprised if there was one going to happen before the end of this year, he didn’t actually boldly state that there wasn’t going to be one. @NielsBoschh […]
Slapped By Google Penguin? – Take A Look At These Top Traffic Sources
What are your top traffic sources for your blog outside of Google, and why is it so important for you to work on increasing referral traffic? Read on… Are you sick and tired of the anti-SEO propaganda being paraded around by Google, with Penguin this and Panda that, and hearing ‘this is how you should […]
Google Penguin 2.0 – What’s the Big Deal?
Jimmy Wales, the American internet entrepreneur who founded Wikipedia, once said, “If it isn’t on Google, it doesn’t exist.” The same could be said for your business, even if it is a brick and mortar, mom and pop shop at a physical location. You might be thinking, I have a website, isn’t that enough? Unless […]
Link Building With Google Synonyms
While link building is a major part of any SEO or online marketing campaign, there are always concerns of ‘over-optimising’ or tipping the balance between a natural or not so natural looking backlink profile. It has become evermore important since Google released their link goading penguin updates. So how do we get the most from […]
Google’s Matt Cutts Explains How To Decide Which Links To Remove
In recent times webmasters have had to play the huge ‘guessing game’ in deciding which links are bad and which links are good, what links should they leave and what links should they remove, and until now Google has done very little to help webmasters figure that out. If you’ve seen a message in your […]
How To Recover From & Prevent Negative SEO
Last year Google released a series of search engine algorithm updates (Panda and Penguin), in an attempt to reduce web-spam and de-rank sites that had a low-quality backlink profile. This was of course great news for the ‘good citizens’ of ethical webmasters who were tired of seeing their hard work go to complete waste, by […]
Five SEO Strategies That Can Hurt Your Ranking
Google is secretive about its ranking algorithms. They are a complex mixture of over two hundred carefully weighted signals that contribute to deciding where on the search engine results pages a particular page appears. People don’t like complexity and secrecy, especially when their income depends on the information that’s hidden. They yearn for quick and […]
Outsourcing SEO – Cost Effective or an Unnecessary Expense?
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is now considered one of the major forms of apparatus for spring-boarding your company to recognition and credibility. By shifting your website up the rankings on search engine results, the reputation of your company can improve dramatically as more traffic is driven through your website and the general public begin […]
Referral Traffic VS Search Engine Traffic: Why you should Increase Referral Traffic
Why you should increase referral traffic? – Google Panda and Google Penguin has no doubt hurt a lot of webmasters and bloggers to say the least. Whilst it’s not time for a traffic report I can tell you that Magnet4Marketing is 30% down on search engine traffic from the previous month. As disheartening as this […]
Google Panda 3.9: Time to Remove Those Unnatural Links
As you’re probably aware by now Google has once again launched out another aggressive Panda update, Panda 3.9 or, 4.0 as some webmasters are rounding the number off, is out of the cage. It’s been a mere year and a half since Google rolled out the first Panda update which has still left many webmasters […]