Do Google Adwords Affect SEO?

I believe a lot of people already know the answer to the question “Does Google Adwords Affect SEO?”  The answer is NO!  However, there are still some conspiracy theories that if you spend a lot of money on Adwords, you can work with the Google rep and boost your organic ranking.  No No NO! Organic Ranking, [...]

Top 5 SEO Mistakes That Webmasters Make

Matt Cutts recently published a video on their Webmaster Channel listing the top 5 SEO mistakes that webmasters make.  He mentioned that these aren’t super advanced mistakes but the BIGGEST mistakes by volume. The BIGGEST mistake is not having the site crawlable or not having a domain at all.  Definitely create a website that is [...]

How to Protect Your Site from Hackers – Google’s Help Center

Google announced the launch of Help Center for Hacked sites on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 on their Webmaster Central Blog.  The help center includes videos on the Overview about Hacking (Compromise), explanation on how to assess the damage when hacked with spam and how to assess the damage when hacked with malware. Google mentioned there are [...]

PageRank Lost Through 301 Redirect vs Linking Myth Debunked!

301 Redirect vs Linking

Google just uploaded a video on their YouTube Webmaster channel on February 25th debunking the PageRank lost through 301 redirects and linking myth. Many SEOs have been arguing how much link juice of PageRank is lost through a link or through 301 redirects.  Which method is better in order to save more PageRank.  Matt Cutts, head of Google’s [...]

How Google Authorship Affects SEO

The re=”author” tag is used to connect an author’s blog with their Google+ profile so that authors can showcase all their articles in the search results and their Google+ profile image will appear next to the article in the search results.  So what’s the hype over the authorship tag and how does it affect SEO? [...]

How to Locate Unnatural Low-Quality Links

First of all, thank you everyone who showed interested in my previous article about Negative SEO.   In my previous article, I discussed about protecting your site from Negative SEO and one of the most common method people use is buying thousands of low-quality links and pointing it to their competitor’s website hoping Google will see that and penalize [...]

Top 7 Most Common SEO Myths from Expert Blogs

You’ve probably read tons of articles about “TOP” 5 or 10 SEO myths.  I am not saying those are not myths but with all these different articles stating different TOP SEO myths, so which ones are actually top 5 or 10 myths. Here I’ve complied a list of top 7 myths that were mentioned in many [...]

How to Protect Your Site From Negative SEO

Before learning how to protect your site from Negative SEO, lets first make it clear What is Negative SEO. Negative SEO is the practice of attacking other websites using techniques that will cause SEO penalties on other websites.  For example, building low-quality backlinks directing it to a competitor’s website, hoping Google will penalize the website. There are many other ways [...]

Back to Basics: Intermediate SEO 101

As I’ve mentioned in my previous article on introduction to SEO, I’m writing beginner’s guides because of a Marketing idea I got from reading one of @NeilPatel’s ebook.  Therefore, here I am writing another SEO back to basics. There are just so much to learn about SEO.  This guide will answer some of the most frequent [...]

Robots.txt is Now Requrid for Bing & Yahoo!

What is Robots.txt? Robots.txt also known as Robots Exclusion Protocol is a file that stores in a website’s server and is use to tell Search Engine bots what pages on the website NOT to crawl or skip. You will just need to include a few codes in the file: User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /scripts/ Disallow: /tmp/   [...]

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