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This blog caught a lot of heat because we kept emphasizing the role BOUNCE RATE may have played in the devastating trifecta of Google updates that started on February 25. May webmaseters, understandably, don't want to bother with the time, hassle, or cost involved in producing sites that have a) ORIGINAL b) QUALITY c) LOW BOUNCE RATE CONTENT.  But Google, ... Read More

Before you say "Oh no! Another Google Panda update blog entry", let me make it clear that Google is dead serious about imposing stricter QUALITY CONTROL on its search results.  They have repeatedly defined "quality content" in terms of ORIGINAL content.  That's the whole point of the Scraper update.  While it nuked many dupe content and link farms, there are ... Read More

AOL recently bought the popular liberal blog Huffington Post for a whopping $315 million dollars.  That's around 32 TIMES the earnings of Huffington Post according to Reuters.  Surely, the brand equity of Huffington Post, its high caliber stable of contributors as well as the name equity of Arianna Huffington factor into the price.  Still, 32 times earnings is quite a ... Read More

When it comes to legal pronouncements or any other pronouncements that can impact people's lives and incomes, there has to be TIGHTLY DEFINED PARAMETERS for the problem at hand.  Sadly, while this principle works well in law, it doesn't apply, apparently, to Google.  Vaguely defined terms like "content farms" and "low quality" content can mean the difference between having an ... Read More

We recently ran an historical analysis of several clients' blogs and noticed a distinct pattern--SE activity picks up with more blog updates.  This isn't rocket science--it's always been suspected that frequent updates factors into crawl frequency.  It's also not unreasonable to think of this process as a "race"--the more your blog gets indexed and the more you target fast developing ... Read More

Unless you've been smoking rocks or hiding under one, you're probably well aware of Google's current Netwide manhunt for sites that buy links to get a SERP advantage.   Here's one of the more famous blowouts: izea's payperpost.com program paid bloggers to blog about sponsors and linking to them without the no follow rel tag.  Result: Google struck back by reducing ... Read More

If you're getting on the linkwheel bandwagon for supercharging backlink value, you can use the list below.  Whatever you do, make sure you don't use a familiar linkwheel pattern.  Don't spam or your linkwheel will be worthless.   Make sure to populate the system with REAL AND USEFUL CONTENT. The more "random" the linking pattern is the more "natural" it will look ... Read More

If you're optimizing a site that is in a very competitive space, you may want to look into getting a list of TONS of longtail keywords for your niche.  Filter and rank them based on competition level.   Optimize for the lower competition items first. Here's the tested and proven strategy you might want to try: 1)  Build content for the ... Read More

Special thanks to SOURCE: Let me clarify that what I am about to present to you is not about ranking your site, or your Home Page. It’s about Ranking Your Specific Long Tail Keyword Phrases… these are your money phrases, the phrases that people use once they have narrowed down their search - the Keyword Phrases that MAKE MONEY! The first thing ... Read More

I use Google autosuggest for SEO.  It's great for finding subniches and high value targeted topics to blog about.  However, it does produce WEIRD results sometimes.  Check out these gems.... Barack Obama is your new bicycle...  Talk about metaphors.  Hmmmm.  Albert Hoffman type bicycle (Road to Eleusis) or are we talking about that famous ET scene? NOTE:  Click on the thumbnails to ... Read More