So I have been working on a huge project. For about the last year I have building out a new tool called SEOJet. It is the answer to a couple of problems that I kept encountering while doing link building. First, any time I went out and got a link I was always more or less guessing on what the anchor text should be. Back in the olden days this was fine because I could be wrong and get away …
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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 …
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 …
Some of you might have noticed a severe drop in traffic over the weekend to one or more of your websites. You are not alone. Google as they have been so eager to do lately has decided to implement yet another major update to their algorithm. This one seems to have targeted exact match domains. In other words if you own a website where the domain is the exact match of a phrase that gets searched often in Google. For …
Guest Post Placing an accurate value on a website is a truly tricky proposition. Most website valuation companies follow a loose set of guidelines, but the Internet is an ever-changing landscape that causes any fixed rules to fall by the wayside in a matter of weeks. Case-in-point: Flash back to 2009. Websites optimized with hundreds of thousands of low-quality backlinks and monetized with AdSense were dominating the SERPs and making countless webmasters boatloads of cash. With the right set of …