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So, Exact Keyword Match Domains Will Not Help SEO
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 amIts clear (for those who always wanted an official word on it). Exact match domains are not a good idea for SEO. We’ve had many instances where Google had reported exact keyword match as a low quality signal. Websites will an exact keyword match domain is likely to be built up [...]
Is Google Penguin 2.0 Update Underway?
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 am Looks like, this weekend, a new Google Penguin update is about to happen – if SEO reports are to be believed. Ever since, the Google Penguin update back in Apri 24th 2012, and May 25th, 2012, this is possibly the next big refresh/update. June second week, 8th – 18th, [...]
Links May Not Be The Biggest SEO Factor Today – Says Bing
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 amSearch Engine Optimization has always been about links. Once it was the sheer volume of links that pushed a website to top of search engine results, then it evolved to quality combined with quantity of links. Google always wanted to (and did) stay on top of their game and prevented [...]
How To Remove Spam Backlinks Pointing To Your Site?
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 amMany a times, it so happens that with or without your knowledge sites that you don’t even known of start linking to you. Two use case scenarios – Some spam websites, copy RSS feeds and constantly keep linking to a website, or sometimes an SEO vendor whom you hired goes haywire [...]
SEO Works best with Social Media Integration: Study
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 amAt the social media, SEO meet ups I go to, there is always one guy who pops this question, how does SEO and Social Media work together? Do they? Do they not? Although it is a relevant question, considering the fact that social media remains an undefined chapter, or rather a [...]
Google’s Search Query reports showing wrong data: Thousands missing in numbers!
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 amSo, yesterday Google updated the Google Webmaster’s tool with a nice little improvement to the search query report. Sitting under Your site on the web > Search queries menu, this tool now shows more than 2000 queries, let’s you download the search query data programmatically and [...]
Google’s update is called “Penguin”, but the Wire Cutter?
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 am So far, there are no official declarations or tweets from Google (Writing this at 5pm PST), but Danny Sullivan claims that the latest Google update is called “Penguin” within Google. WebPronews reports that the only evidence we have is a picture Matt Cutts tweeted, a while back. No [...]
Updates from Google this week you need to know about
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 amSo, this week was pretty active. With Google rolling out its updates and people complaining about losing and gaining traffic, there was lot of hub-bub over the changes. Google kept us busy with couple of product launches as well – which added to the excitement. So, what happened in [...]
What Google’s New Update means to websites
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 amIt looks like, Google has updated its algorithms significantly recently (Apr 24), and webmasters are as usual, looking very agitated. SEO forums are reporting ups and downs in traffic, but these are not sure signals at the moment, as anything solid can only be seen over the coming [...]
How to predict a Google penalty or sudden drop in Ranks
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 amOn SEO forums, you find this question pop up many a times – “Why did my website suddenly drop in ranks? I did nothing problematic recently.” Within the question itself lies the answer. There was a sudden drop in Google ranks and this was caused by something you did well in advance [...]