A couple of years ago Google hit websites really hard that had done a lot of SEO. This caused many websites in almost every industry to drop from the rankings and websites that hadn’t done a lot of SEO to rise to the top of the rankings. This created an interesting paradox in the SEO world. Should you try to work to recover the rankings you worked so hard to get and now have lost? Or should you give up …
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If you hadn’t heard Google came out recently with a new update to their algorithm (they seem to be doing this once a week) that affected exact match domain names. I have always been a strong advocate for exact match domains because up until this last update, Google gave undue advantage to them in the search results. All you had to do is have a domain name that matched a phrase people would search on google and you would rank …
I have to say I am so sick and tired of the stupid changes Google is making. They are trying so hard to stop people from doing SEO that they have completely lost their way. Their search results are ridiculously bad. I am almost always going to Bing now if I need to search for something. For the past 10 years I have relied on Google for my main income. I have always been able to achieve high rankings for …
This is a question people keep asking me. Do the old SEO techniques still work with all of the Google changes? I think I get asked the question because I have always preached and still continue to preach that the old tried and true SEO techniques that I learned really well 8-10 years ago still work today. The Google changes happen because people become so good at gaming the system that they have to make changes to ensure that the …
As many of you have surely heard Google has made the declaration that they are changing the way they will report search traffic to website owners. The bottom line is that if someone is signed into their Google account and then does a google search and ends up at your website, their search query will not show up in your analytics. So what does this mean for internet marketing? I personally have always held the belief that it is more …