 | May 8, 2013Unnatural Links Recovery Guide Read More >> |
 | April 10, 2013Are you happy, sad or indifferent when Google puts out a new Panda / Penguin update? Read More >> |
 | March 13, 2013When you add great content to your website on a regular basis and get the word out about it to your target audience, you'll gain more rankings, traffic, conversions, leads and sales.
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 | January 16, 2013In my "18 SEO Killers" article from the end of last year, I mentioned footer links as a potential SEO problem. I know this confused many people because I didn't explain what I meant by them. This article takes an in-depth look at footer abuses. Read More >> |
 | November 14, 2012There's a lot of talk lately of Google having finally killed SEO through their Panda and Penguin algorithms, which continue to ensnare more and more websites with every new update. So is SEO really (finally) dead?
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 | October 31, 2012.gov and .edu links Read More >> |
 | September 5, 2012This week, rather than a High Rankings Question of the Week, I've got a rant of the week instead. Read More >> |
 | July 25, 2012As you know, I've been reviewing tons of websites that have lost Google traffic lately. Most of the reasons that the sites lost favor with Google have been fairly obvious (to me)--especially the sites that have seen steep declines. Most of the reasons include any combination of...
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 | July 11, 2012Ever since Panda and Penguin have hit, a lot of companies have lost a large percentage of their website visitors. Unfortunately, many of them were taken advantage of by shady SEO companies.
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 | May 30, 2012Comical Experiment With Cheap Link Building Read More >> |
 | May 2, 2012Today I browsed through the 3,500 or so SEO questions people asked at Google and chose the most common ones to answer. Read More >> |
 | April 18, 2012Read on to see what I've learned (so far) trying to market my new website. Read More >> |
 | April 18, 2012Have You Received a GWMT Notice: Artificial or Unnatural Links? Read More >> |
 | March 7, 2012It's pretty amazing and very cool that a simple gesture can have such a profound effect on someone's career – and, I daresay – life. Read More >> |
 | December 14, 2011I know that incoming links are important in search engine rankings, but do the search engines consider anchors the same way as an incoming link? Read More >> |
 | December 14, 2011I am hoping you can help me navigate the confusing ODP site where I submitted my website to let me know how I can find the editor of the topic I submitted to so I can contact him or her.
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 | December 14, 2011Is there any way to block irrelevant backlinks pointing to my site? Read More >> |
 | December 14, 2011Does link popularity take into account blog postings with your link and product information? What kind of weight does that hold?
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 | November 2, 2011Should Blog Reviews Use NoFollow Links? Read More >> |
 | September 21, 2011I was wondering if you had any advice about which option is better SEO wise…buying a domain for a microsite or adding the information to your website as additional content?
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 | September 7, 2011When building links or doing other search marketing tasks, it necessary to lie? Isn't that sort of thing exactly what gives marketers in general (not just search marketers) a bad reputation?
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 | June 1, 2011Do you think the hashtag in a URL affects the site's SEO or link building in any way? Read More >> |
 | February 2, 2011I'm tired of Google (and Bing) returning sites that use anchor text link spam to get on the first page of results. Read More >> |
 | February 2, 2011What type of web spam concerns/bothers you the most? Read More >>
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 | November 17, 2010Last week I was speaking with a potential client in need of SEO consulting who told me that they had been working on their product part e-commerce website over the past few months by adding "SEO articles" to it on a regular basis. Read More >> |
 | November 17, 2010What's the most creative content you've added to a website that enhanced its value? Read More >> |
 | October 20, 2010What can someone charge for selling a link on their site? Read More >> |
 | October 6, 2010Can Backlinks Have a Negative Effect? Read More >> |
 | September 22, 2010Jill Whalen writes an open letter to Google lamenting the amount of spam still found in their search results. Read More >> |
 | July 28, 2010What would be the best way for me to transition old pages off our website, while keeping up our SEO? They have a lot of links to other pages, some not related to our business.
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 | July 28, 2010Are articles a smart and strategic way to invest our money? Is this person being completely honest in saying we "will rank on page 1" with their articles? Read More >> |
 | July 28, 2010Do you use "article marketing" as a form of SEO? Read More >> |
 | June 2, 2010I have a question about the duplicate content issue when you append tracking codes. But, as a safety measure to avoid duplicate content, I've included a 301-redirect in the htaccess file...
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 | June 2, 2010Why does one of our websites come up #5 on Google under the keywords "our keyword phrase Los Angeles" when the keywords "Los Angeles" are nowhere to be found on our pages? Read More >> |
 | June 2, 2010If websites have links pointing externally, is there a difference when pointing to high- or low-authority sites?
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 | June 2, 2010Do you ever use nofollow links, and if so, for what purpose? Read More >> |
 | May 19, 2010Think you're doing a good job of tracking and measuring the success of every link to your website that gets announced to the world in some fashion? Do you ever wonder where some of your "Direct Traffic" came from? Read More >> |
 | May 5, 2010Here are some of the more prevalent myths I hear and see bandied about in SEO articles, at SEO conferences, in SEO blogs and on SEO forums. Read More >> |
 | April 7, 2010Due to my very low link popularity, is that enough to send my pages to Google's Supplemental Index?
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| February 10, 2010Do you build links for the traffic or for rankings? Read More >> |
| January 20, 2010Inbound, good-quality links are a struggle for me. I can sort though all sorts of tech stuff resulting in a good-looking, professional website, but link building is a real challenge. Read More >> |
| January 20, 2010Forum member "krisflex" wants to know how to increase his or her PageRank. Read More >> |
| January 6, 2010I've been SEO'ing websites long before the 21st century began. Sometimes I feel I've been touting the same SEO processes and procedures for the past 10 years. Read More >> |
| January 6, 2010Brand-New Service! Link-Building Roadmap Report Read More >> |
| June 10, 2009We are being contacted more and more by companies asking if we will add to our websites and/or clients' websites a short paragraph of text that includes a link to one of their clients' sites – i.e., a text advertisement.
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| May 27, 2009I have a series (15) of keyword domains (3 to 5 years old) that are related to my site. Currently most of them are mirrors with just a slight content differential. Read More >> |
| May 13, 2009What's your opinion on the purchase of links for SEO? Read More >> |
| April 1, 2009Today's guest article comes to us from Dianna Huff, Principal of DH Communications, Inc. Dianna specializes in B2B marketing communications consulting and copywriting, and is an all-around nice person. Read More >> |
| March 18, 2009Forum member "whitespark" is wondering if he could get in trouble for asking his customers to add a link to his website in exchange for a discount on a future purchase. Read More >> |
| March 4, 2009We have a travel website where people can enquire about beautiful small hotels we offer. Even though each hotel has a unique URL with unique content, the categories pages have a duplication problem. Read More >> |
| February 4, 2009I've been researching absolute vs. relative links and there seem to be two camps -- one that advocates absolute as better for SEO purposes and the other that says that absolute links won't improve your rank. My site is set up with relative links, so is it worth the effort to change them to absolute? Read More >> |
| November 19, 2008In Google's Webmaster Tools there is a section where you can submit someone you think is buying links. Here is what I don't understand – can Google really penalize you for purchasing links? Read More >> |
| October 22, 2008I performed a keyword analysis for one of my projects, picked several powerful "traffic juicy" keywords and optimized the landing pages for those keywords. My site went to the first page in the search engines, and yet we've got no more than 100 unique visitors per month. Have you any idea why?
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| September 10, 2008I admit it. I'm a Google Analytics junkie. I try to stay away, but every now and then I hear it calling my name and I break down and log in. I feel the familiar rush of excitement running through my veins almost instantly. And I know anything else I may have planned to do that day won't get done because I'll be in my own world for hours. My analytics world. Just me and my stats. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh… Read More >> |
| September 10, 2008Last week Twitter decided to remove the ability to gain any link popularity via people's Twitter profile page. This set off a firestorm from some SEOs who always look for as much link popularity as they can gather. What really made them mad was that they felt that Google (via Matt Cutts) had "bullied" Twitter into the decision.
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| July 16, 2008I recently signed up as an advertiser with [a blog review website] so I could purchase blog review postings for one of my clients. After enrolling, I purchased a PR5 blog review posting at the standard PR5 price of $40. Eventually my offer was picked up by a blogger, but the review posting only stayed on their PR5 home page for one day as the next day it was shifted from the front page of the blog to an archived page that had a PR0. Read More >> |
| May 28, 2008When the term "linkbait" first appeared on the search marketing scene a few years ago, I wasn't too keen on it because it has a lot of negative connotations. In fishing, bait is not really a good thing (to the fish). One minute the fish thinks he's going to have a tasty meal, and the next minute he IS the tasty meal! Works out nicely for the fisherman, however. Read More >> |
| May 14, 2008The front page of my website has a [toolbar] PageRank of 4 and most of my inner pages had a PageRank of 3. After this quarter's Google [toolbar] update, my homepage remained a 4, but most of my inner pages went down to a 2. Read More >> |
| May 14, 2008While this question may not be directly SEO-related, I'm wondering if there might be any negative SEO implications to including a social bookmarking and sharing button to the more popular pages on our website to leverage some of the popularity of social networking? Read More >> |
| March 26, 2008Now that the nofollow link attribute has been around for awhile, and even sanctioned by Google's Matt Cutts for "PageRank Sculpting," forum member "nethy" is wondering what your thoughts are on it. Read More >> |
| February 6, 2008There's a good thread in the forum from member "fishermack" explaining why toolbar PageRank is not an effective measurement for website traffic and sales. Read More >> |
| November 14, 2007Two weeks ago, my Google PR was still at 0/10. We have a 6-month-old site, for which I've been doing many of the "slow growth" SEO tactics as my time allows.
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| October 31, 2007Forum member “Reflections” is looking for a quick way to increase PageRank
because the usual routes take too long. Read More >> |
| October 24, 2007The SEO world is abuzz today with Google’s smack in the face to a number of
websites that are selling obviously paid-for, keyword-rich text links. Read More >> |
| October 24, 2007I noticed something interesting the other day that made me wonder whether
links that have the nofollow attribute on them can/do still pass anchor-text
“juice” in Google. Read More >> |
| October 3, 2007We have an information site which sells nothing. Our site consists of about
140 articles. I have authored several, and I'm wondering about submitting a
couple of my articles to certain type of sites which claim to boost links to
your site.
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| July 25, 2007To go along with our blogging theme today, I wanted to point out something that my sister Beth, CEO of Nobscot Corporation, is doing that I think is pretty cool. On her blog, she has told the world that she is on a mission to convince Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, to mentor her! Read More >> |
| June 20, 2007Forum member "1dmf" asks the High Rankings gang:
"If you wrote an article/blog, how do you do the links? Read More >> |
| June 14, 2007Pauline caught up with Jennifer Laycock, editor-in-chief of Search Engine Guide, in order to find out her thoughts on viral marketing and social media. Read More >> |
| May 23, 2007Our site has a blog which is www.blog.domain.com — should it really be
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| May 16, 2007Forum member "Nystul" remarks: "Due to the long name of my website
(keyword), a couple of my backlinks are anchor text as 'thisisme,' instead
of 'this is me.' Read More >> |
| May 16, 2007Forum member "vertigo" has been busy posting in online forums and says, "For
about 20 of these forums I have replied to existing posts with original
info, and have put a keyword-rich hyperlink to my website in my signature. Read More >> |
| April 18, 2007Forum moderator Michael Motherwell (aka “ProjectPHP”) wondered what all the
hubbub is regarding a post Matt Cutts made at his blog asking for people to
report paid links to him/Google. Read More >> |
| April 4, 2007Someone emailed me with a list of quick questions about some SEO terminology
they didn’t understand. I figured if one person was looking for these
answers, many of you would be, too. Read More >> |
| March 7, 2007Forum member "Jon H" is looking for ways to build links and has started a
few different threads on the topic: Read More >> |
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| March 7, 2007"Ryan2" is also looking to build links and was wondering if it's okay to pay
bloggers to link to your site. Read More >> |
| February 21, 2007"Jammin' Jake" tells the forum, "My employers would like to start three new
websites for these three aspects of our consulting services to focus on each
individual consulting service." Read More >> |
| February 14, 2007Forum member “LarryB713″ was told by an SEO “expert” that linking to
unrelated sites could get his site penalized by the search engines and was
wondering if it was true. Read More >> |
| January 31, 2007I am surprised to see that your own website still has both the www and non-www version in place — no redirect to get the “link juice” from the non-www version. Do you consider this a not so important issue? Both versions have good PR. Read More >> |
| January 31, 2007Did you know that Google supposedly doesn’t crawl nofollows? My understanding was that they are to be used for untrusted links, not to keep Google’s spider out of places. (There are already tags/attributes for that.) However, Google seems to keep changing what they want to use the nofollow attribute for. Read More >> |
| January 3, 2007I recently SEO-ed my site. Yahoo started re-indexing my website: they already showed 37 of the new links (internal URLs) within my site. This morning I had another look at these links within Yahoo and got an unpleasant surprise: they showed the links from the previous version of my site. I’m wondering if you have an explanation of why this happened. Read More >> |
| January 3, 2007I am continually frustrated with web sites that provide a link, but when I click on it, it takes me OFF their site and onto another. Read More >> |
| December 13, 2006I have better backlinks than my competitor and my site is also optimized,
but why is my competitor’s ranking better than mine? Our backlinks are
around 90 and the competitor’s backlinks are around 55. What can I do for
better rankings than the competitor? Read More >> |
| December 13, 2006In the scheme of things, do you think it is important to add outbound links
from a web site? Read More >> |
| December 13, 2006At the beginning of October we regenerated our entire site and
ran into a very strange problem. All of a sudden all our search results were
showing up under one of our old domain names. Read More >> |
| December 1, 2006Back in June, Jill and I were front and center at SES Toronto listening to Seth Godin, entrepreneur, best-selling author, and marketing guru. He is as excellent a speaker as he is a writer! Seth delivered a thought-provoking as well as motivational keynote speech, and if you ever get a chance to hear him speak, it is a truly remarkable experience! Read More >> |
| September 6, 2006I’d like to thank you for the great information that you make available. I
read it and implement it — and it works. Thanks! Read More >> |
| August 16, 2006Push the button of every SEO expert and he/she will start talking about the
importance of links for high rankings.
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