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One question I get asked a lot is how to write a good meta description tag for a webpage. You will hear many “guru” IM’ers preach about writing an enticing description that will encourage searchers to click to your website from the search engine results page versus clicking on one of your competitors. A few […]

Interesting little test that Google is performing. This one is well worth keeping your eye on. My question is if it does go live, will the average smartphone user realize it or even know what it means? I’m going to guess probably not. If they do though, you need to start making your content mobile […]

While the SEO and webmaster community wait with baited breath for Google to launch its promised Disavow Links feature in Google Webmaster Tools, Bing went ahead and launched a disavow tool of its own. Duane Forrester, head of Bing Webmaster Tools cautions: You can easily export the list as you build it over time. These […]

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past week, you are probably aware that Google unleashed its latest major algorithm update, nicknamed Penguin. This was the long rumored “over optimization penalty” that was coming. When webmasters and internet marketers got wind of an “over optimization penalty” in the pipeline, they all assumed […]

They Should Be Rejoicing That might seem like an odd thing for an internet marketer to say, but it is the truth.  The systematic elimination of the most popular blog networks by Google is actually a very good thing for internet marketers. What?  But I relied on blog networks for my rankings. Well, if that […]

One of the most popular forms of backlinking for internet marketers over the past two years has been the utilization of “private” blog networks. I use the term “private” loosely. Yes they are private in that you have to become a member to use them, but when everyone knows about them are they really private? […]

How to Make Your Link Profile Stick Out From The Crowd If you talk to just about any SEO, they will tell you that the most important thing in any SEO campaign is link building.  (If they tell you “content is king”, start looking for an SEO.  They have no idea what they are talking […]

You have probably heard by now, but Google unleashed a fairly large change to their search engine algorithm last week. They are calling it the page layout algorithm change. At its heart, it really is a continuation of the changes that began with Panda last year. They are continuing to focus on the user experience, […]

Matt Cutts has confirmed that Googlebot can now read AJAX & JavaScript for indexing some dynamic content on webpages. What does that mean?  Many websites that accept comments have been using some kind of scripting software.  Previously, Google could not read these comments.  One common one that many people have implemented is a Facebook comments […]

This is a topic I get into debates with people about regularly. What should you look for when doing keyword research?  How many searches should there be? What should I look at for the competition? I’m going to tell you, and especially if you are new to internet marketing, that most of the things you […]