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Latest SEO News & updates from Google and other search engines.
A bigger problem than Google penalty or Bad SEO – “Negative SEO Extortion”
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:57 amWe’ve all been hearing about it for a while now – Negative SEO and rivals using it to take down competition. Looks like it has scaled up pretty quickly and spammers are using it as a full time job! There has been several recent incidents reported where competition hired [...]
How To Check If Your Robots.txt File Is Working Properly
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:57 amRobots.txt file is used to let search engines know what file /directories to crawl and what not to. It is one f those simple things to do in SEO and many people ignore it, even today. Even though it’s easy to install, it can get confusing if you’re running a big website. [...]
Google’s New Algorithm update will target more low quality queries
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:57 am It doesn’t stop with a Penguin or Panda. Google’s Payday Loan algorithm that was “released” sometime around May 17th, 2014 has an update today. Matt Cutts confirmed this at the SMX conference today via this tweet. Payday 3.0 specifically targets spammy [...]
Your blog may be hacked, if you’re using All in One SEO Pack WordPress plugin
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:57 amIt was once an amazing plugin. Not any more. News reports claim that the once popular All in One SEO plugin has been compromised and experts have found it vulnerable to hacking attacks. Two privilege escalation vulnerabilities were discovered earlier this week that may affect any [...]
Get Real Time Analytics For Your Youtube Videos
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:57 amYoutube is by far the most visited site for people when they want to find a video on their subject of interest. In the US alone, according to a study by AYTM Market Research, about 60% of internet users visited the site once a week, as of March 2013. It popularity has also resulted [...]
9 Inspiring SEO lessons from SEO thought leaders
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 amLately while some argue that content is king, there are other s who preach SEO tactics like gurus and webmasters follow them like disciples. Whether or not social media has caused the death of SEO as some say, SEO is still here and we all need to get going with it. So let’s hear it [...]
Bing Adds New Feature: Sort Results by Time
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 amLong time coming. Google already lets you sort search results based on time frame. And now, Bing has caught up with the same feature on its search results. We can now search for specific time frames within Bing results. Past 24 Hours, Past week and Past month, are the available [...]
Google AdWords Rolls out New Feature – Enhanced Campaigns
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 amSo, Google AdWords rolled out a new feature couple of minutes back called Enhanced Campaigns. Enhanced campaigns will help search marketers have a more sophisticated control over their campaigns, by being able to manage all campaigns that are targeted to different devices at one [...]
Bing SEO : Now Goes Official with Webmaster’s Guidelines
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 am SEO was always intended for Google. Bing and Yahoo always followed suit. If it was good for Google, it was ok with Bing and Yahoo. Why? Because there were very little efforts from Bing and Yahoo regarding how to optimize websites for better search results and relevancy. There were [...]
5 Honest Tips to An Efficient Link Building Strategy
This article was updated on August 6th, 2020 at 05:58 am Some folks say link building is dead. I beg to differ. May be, I’ll rephrase it. Link Building as we know it, with its traditional methods, is dead. But that’s how its always been. Someone finds a method to link building, a lot of SEO folks exploits it. And then Google finds out. [...]