Category: SEO

How Safe Are Your Backlinks? #FridayFinds

Post author By Sherryl Perry
Post date April 26, 2014
76 Comments on How Safe Are Your Backlinks? #FridayFinds

For years, link building has been a cornerstone of SEO. Webmasters have used links in blogrolls, anchor text, forum signatures, user profiles and comments (just to name a few). Linking strategies have ranged from building links naturally to buying links. While links to readers’ websites are tagged no-follow by default in WordPress, bloggers who use the CommentLuv plugin have the option of easily enabling the do-follow attribute on links left with comments. With all the attention that Google has been giving to “unnatural” links recently, what should we do? Should we contact webmasters and ask them to remove links to our site? Should we make all of the CommentLuv links on our site no-follow? Let’s take a look at this topic in this week’s #FridayFinds.

Tags #FridayFinds, commenting strategy, CommentLuv, Link Building

SEO

Google Manual Web Spam Action or Algorithm Change?

Post author By Sherryl Perry
Post date April 4, 2014
41 Comments on Google Manual Web Spam Action or Algorithm Change?

Last week, in light of the massive amount of manual web spam actions that Google enacted, I wrote an article that took a closer look at what was behind some of the actions. This week, let’s hear what Matt Cutts has to say about the differences between a Google algorithmic penalty and a Google manual web spam action. What does the Google web spam team consider an unnatural link and what can you do to recover from it?

Tags Google algorithm change, Google Penalty, Google web spam action, Matt Cutts videos, SEO

Friday Finds SEO

Google Manual Web Spam Actions and Penalties #FridayFinds

Post author By Sherryl Perry
Post date March 28, 2014
30 Comments on Google Manual Web Spam Actions and Penalties #FridayFinds

Google Manual Web Spam Notifications and Penalties

March is proving to be an eventful month. According to Fruition.net, on March 7^th, many website owners received “manual web spam” notices from Google for unnatural inbound links. Then, there was the announcement that Ann Smarty’s site MyBlogGuest.com was penalized and de-indexed by Google. Then, we started hearing of other sites that were penalized as well. Ann Smarty even modified the update on her blog to confirm that some member sites were hit by Google as well.

Tags Google Penalty, Google reconsideration request, Google web spam action

Friday Finds SEO

3 Things You May Not Know About Google and SEO – #FridayFinds

Post author By Sherryl Perry
Post date March 7, 2014
49 Comments on 3 Things You May Not Know About Google and SEO – #FridayFinds

Do you know how to exploit the landing pages search function of Google’s keyword planner tool? Did you know that using underscores in the URLs of your website pages (for example blog posts) could potentially be costing you search traffic? Interested in learning ways to drive traffic to your website that don’t involve SEO (Search Engine Optimization)? Find the answers to these three questions in this week’s #FridayFinds.

Tags #FridayFinds, Google keyword planner, Matt Cutts videos, search engine optimization, SEO

Blogging SEO

Do You Comment for Backlinks on DoFollow Enabled CommentLuv Blogs?

Post author By Sherryl Perry
Post date January 30, 2014
127 Comments on Do You Comment for Backlinks on DoFollow Enabled CommentLuv Blogs?

Last week, Matt Cutts got the blogging community in an uproar over whether or not guest blogging was dead. (It’s not.) Actually, what Matt said was that guest blogging for “backlinks” was no longer going to be tolerated by Google and that we should be especially concerned with spammy links in guest posts intended for SEO. He cautioned us to only accept guest posts from trusted bloggers who we could vouch for. That got me thinking about the backlinks that are left in the comments of blogs that use the CommentLuv WordPress plugin.

Tags Anti Backlinker plugin, CommentLuv Premium, Matt Cutts, SEO backlinks, wordpress

Blogging SEO

Did Matt Cutts say that Guest Blogging for Links is Dead?

Post author By Sherryl Perry
Post date January 21, 2014
66 Comments on Did Matt Cutts say that Guest Blogging for Links is Dead?

Over the past year, Matt Cutts (head of Google’s Webspam team) has been fielding questions about guest blogging and whether or not it hurts or helps with SEO. Well, it’s January 2014 and yesterday Matt Cutts made it very clear (on his blog) that if you’re guest blogging to gain links stop.

Tags backlinking strategy, guest blogging, Link Building, Matt Cutts videos, SEO

SEO

Do You Use Google Webmaster Tools Bing or Both?

Post author By Sherryl Perry
Post date December 4, 2013
134 Comments on Do You Use Google Webmaster Tools Bing or Both?

Some SEO experts are recommending that we seriously consider using both Google and Bing Webmaster Tools to gain valuable insight into the factors that are contributing to our SEO success (or failure.) Both sets of tools include diagnostics such as indexing and crawling. Recently, (November 2013), Bing introduced “Connected Pages” to help you glean valuable information from your social media pages as well. (Will this be something that Google will follow suit with?)

Tags Bing, Google, SEO, webmaster tools, xml sitemaps

Friday Finds SEO

E-Book Promotion Strategies, Using Hashtags and Google Analytics #FridayFinds

Post author By Sherryl Perry
Post date October 11, 2013
30 Comments on E-Book Promotion Strategies, Using Hashtags and Google Analytics #FridayFinds

Are you looking for a marketing strategy for your E-Book? Did you see the viral video about overusing hashtags or would you like to learn more on how to effectively use them? Did you hear about the training that Google is offering on Google Analytics or get a chance to read Kristi Hines’ article on KissMetrics about referral paths (in Google Analytics)? Learn more about all of these in this week’s #FridayFinds series.

Tags Friday Finds, Google Analytics, hashtags, marketing strategies