On April 29th Matt Cutts provided his recommendations as to what he sees are the 5 biggest SEO mistakes that webmasters make. Cutts noted that these are not the most devastating mistakes that a webmaster can make but these are the most common. 1) Not having a website or having a website that is not …
Mozilla.org, the non-profit company most famous for the Firefox browser was recently penalized by Google for “user generated spam”. If you do a quick search for ‘site:mozilla.org cheap payday seo’, you’ll find several examples of users abusing the blog comments in the forums and add-ons section. Mozilla was penalized because it allows users to post …
A few days ago while monitoring clients’ search results, I noticed that slightly different fonts were displayed in search results, both paid and organically. Google always claims to run over 100 different tests every day in search and this must be one of them. Can you tell the difference? It seems as though Google tests …
One of the first steps towards optimizing a website is to gather a list of keywords – but finding the best keywords for your site can be difficult. Thankfully, there are several free keyword research tools available on the web to help you select the perfect short and long-tail phrases when optimizing your site. Here …
Blogging is one of the most important processes in the SEO ladder of success. But many people, including myself, struggle to come up with good, clean, original content. Here are some of the few tips to help you generate blog content from some of the best bloggers around! Buckle up this is going to be …
As Webmasters, we often come up against HTML websites that have a large number of pages that need to be optimized. One of the first things to be done is install your Google Analytics tracking code to each page, and when you have a 50 plus page website, that can be extremely time consuming and …
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Many of us face the same reality of sitting behind a desk and staring at a computer screen for the majority of our workday and week. Between various projects, reports and other obligations, there is often a struggle to also tackle that dreaded email inbox. A recent study stated that the average worker spends over …
Google continues to make improvements to its Mobile Search function for Smart Phone users. Today they announced a trial version for a new Mobile Search feature called “Quick View”. Quick View is still in a trial period and is only available for a select number of sites, like Wikipedia. This function will allow for users …
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Two interesting studies in the past week about search engines. One seems to say that nobody should bother trying to best Google and another says that Google is being well bested. SurveyMonkey recently ran a study about SEO assumptions that compared respondents responses to search results from both Google and Bing. Users were given a …
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Bing has added a couple new features to their search engine marketing – Bing Ads reporting system. The first is called ‘Ad Extensions Details’ which shows site link performance by ad campaign. The second is called ‘Top vs Other’. This feature shows keyword performance when the ads are at the top of the page (above …
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If you’re one of the 900,000+ WordPress users who installed and activated the popular Social Media Widget plugin (social-media-widget) this year, you’ll probably be surprised to learn that the widget was pulled from the WordPress directory earlier this week. Malicious code that injects spam into the WordPress site hosting the plugin was discovered in the …
Although most of us were expecting Facebook’s big announcement to be the release of an actual Facebook phone (a phone made by Facebook for Facebook), it turns out it was a Facebook application that takes fully integrates into your phone and the android platform. The Facebook Home application runs on android and essentially allows the …
Not to be mean, but if I am looking at a web site or a product or a sign that’s plastered with social media icons, I normally think, “ugh.” Why would I should I care about what you’re doing there and take the time out of my day to follow you or visit your other …
Google has recently released the beta for Google Universal Analytics (UA) to all current Google Analytics users. The biggest difference with this new analytics tool is the ability to bridge your desktop users, mobile users, mobile apps & mobile site analytics all into one application. This is important information to gather because the regular user, …
We’ve talked about Pinterest before and though you may think it is still the same old song and dance, recent changes and adaptions have been made to this social network that could benefit businesses in a big way if utilized properly. In just two years, Pinterest has gathered more than 10 million followers and active …
Google’s integration of Google Places and Google+ has been a lengthy process. It looks like Google is ready to take the next step in the integration process by announcing that they will be rolling out a new dashboard for Google+ Local in the “Coming Weeks”. Google is offering client early entry into the new dashboard …
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