Internet Marketing
How Do You Know If Google Penalized You? – Part 2
On Friday I discussed how you can tell if Google has banned your site and what you have to do to get back into the index. It is a fairly cut and try penalty – either you are in the …
How Do You Know If Google Penalized You? – Part 1
A frequent question I get asked is about Google banning websites. How do you know if your recent drop in rankings is because of a new algorithm update or because Google penalized your site? This will be the first of …
An Intro To Google Filters – #7 The Too Many Pages At Once Filter
In my continuing series on Google Filters, today I am going to discuss the Too Many Pages At Once Filter. How It Works Google likes to see that your webpage is growing consistently and over time. They like up to …
Matt Cutts on Google's Algorithms
For those of you who do not know who Matt Cutts is, he is the head of Google’s Webspam team. He helps determine what gets into Google’s search results and what gets left out. He runs the popular Matt Cutts …
3 Free Web Tools I Can't Live Without
Making a living online can be a difficult and time consuming process. Fortunately there are many free tools that website owners can use to help achieve success. Here are 3 of the tools that I use on a regular basis: …
An Intro To Google Filters – #6 The Co-Citation Filter
It has been a couple of weeks since my last post on Google filters and I wanted to continue the series today by talking about the Co-Citation Filter. How It Works With its most recent updates, Google is focusing not …
How To Make Money Online
One of the blogs I like to read on a regular basis is by John Chow. He has gone from zero to over US$10,000 in monthly income all through blogging. Yesterday John released a free ebook that shares his secrets …
On Site Factors To Raise Your Google Rankings
The Germany company SISTRIX conducted a study of 10,000 random keywords and then performed an analysis of the top 100 Google results for each keyword. Now that is a lot of data crunching! They looked at what on site factors …
Checking For Broken Links
Earlier this month I wrote about Google’s Broken Link Filter and how important it is to make sure all the links on your website work. For internal links I recommended using the GSiteCrawler program and asked my blog readers to …
An Intro To Google Filters – #5 The Too Many Links Filter
If you have been following my series on Google Filters you will already have had a good introduction to some of the things Google looks at when deciding on where to rank your website versus your competitors. Today we are …
Google Files New Patents – What It Means For You
Last month Google filed for two new patents: Document Scoring Based on Traffic Associated with a Document and Document Scoring Based on Query Analysis. The two patents are in addition to the other patents that Google has filed. Some of …
An Intro To Google Filters – #4 The Broken Link Filter
The next in my series on Google Filters looks at the Broken Link Filter. The backbone of Google’s search engine is based on links so it is no wonder that the Broken Link Filter is given a lot of attention. …
An Intro To Google Filters – #3 Google's Link Farm Filter
In my continuing series on Google Filters, today I will discuss the Link Farm Filter. Google’s search engine ranks web pages according to their incoming links. Before Google put a big emphasis on getting quality links, early search engine optimizers …
8 Websites to Help You Raise Capital
Young entrepreneurs are always asking me where they can find the capital to launch their businesses or get to the next step. Your best bet, especially early on, is to connect through your network. Somebody knows somebody who knows somebody …
How Old Is A Site? Here's A Cool Tool To Find Out
On Monday I discussed Google’s Domain Age Filter and the importance of having a domain that has been around for a while. Well how do you find out how old a domain is? A cool tool that I like to …
How To Boost Your Traffic By 35% Overnight
With Google’s most recent update, one of the results has been a great number of pages being dropped to the supplemental index. What this means is that your page will show up after the main results for important keywords. In …
An Intro To Google Filters – #2 Google Domain Age Filter
Last week I talked about Google’s Sandbox filter as the introduction to a series on the filters that Google users to rank webpages. Today I’m going to discuss the domain age filter. One of Google’s problems is that so many …
A Powerful Way To Get Online Rankings: Sitemaps
Most search engines like Google send crawlers out to your site to see what pages you have created and then proceed to add them to their index. But what if they miss some pages or you make changes and they …
An Intro To Google Filters – #1 Google Sandbox
There has been a lot of viewings, links and feedback on the Is Google's New Algorithm Update Impacting Your Site? post that I put up during the week. As far as I can see Google’s updates are still happening as …
Is Google's New Algorithm Update Impacting Your Site?
Well Google is updating their algorithm again and it’s wreaking havoc for a number of entrepreneurs who rely on their web rankings to get business. To “improve” their search engine, Google is taking the first set of results for a …
Who Links To You?
We all know that building links is an important part of any SEO campaign. One tool that I like to use is wholinks2me.com. It shows you how many links you have from the different search engines, what your Google PR …
5 Tips To Sell Online Advertising
I was reading through the YE Forums and came across this post by ProLogic trying to get people to advertise on his website. My main business is selling online advertising – either Pay Per Click or sponsorship. Here is what …
