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The Real Guide to Google Penguin

Google's constant algorithm changes are leaving behind them a trail of broken websites and tear-stained cheeks. Here's the no-nonsense guide to making sure your website excels with the new changes. 1. Become a hub of information that is relevant and highly viral. On the Internet, there are "centers of gravity" in every industry that other…

Google Updates: January 2013

January 2013 might be remembered as one of the weirdest months for Google updates, maybe ever. With only one official update, the past few weeks were filled enough speculation and intrigue to last all year. Panda 24 On January 22, Google announced Panda 24, their first, and so far only, algorithm update of the year.…

Matt Cutts Comes Clean on Negative SEO

[caption id="attachment_32106" align="alignright" width="234" caption="Matt Cutts, SEO Extrordinaire"][/caption] Negative SEO is not only very rare, but it's also easy to combat with Google's Disavow Links Tool. That's what Google Webspam Team Head Matt Cutts said in a recent Youtube video on the controversial subject. In the five-minute video aimed at webmasters, Cutts says that there's…

How HTML 5 Can Boost Your Affiliate Business

The concept of HTML 5 was introduced a couple of years ago, but as always with modern web technologies, it wasn’t implemented right away across most websites on the internet. But the modern online space is changing as we speak, and these days, having an HTML 5 friendly site becomes important for many reasons. SEO…

Yandex Voice-Powered Social Search App

The rapidly growing social search market just got a little more crowded, and interesting, with the launch of Yandex, a voice-operated social search app that's available to iPhone users. Yandex is described by its developers as an experimental product that's embracing some cutting edge search and design techniques. For starters, the whole thing is voice…

Simple Website Fixes That Don’t Involve SEO

Is the affiliate marketing community's collective obsession with SEO causing webmasters to overlook some website design fundamentals? That's the point SearchEngineLand columnist Andrew Shortland makes in a column titled, 10 Simple Things SMB Websites Need to Fix Before SEO. While Shortland's tips are aimed at brick-and-mortar businesses, a few of them should are very relevant…

Did Google Just Launch a Panda Update?

Did Google roll out a major algorithm update last week? The search engine says they didn't, but on SEO forums, webmaster are telling a very different story. SEOs first noticed the update-that-didn't-happen last Thursday. Among the signs pointing towards an update were reports of major traffic drops and collapsing page rankings. But Google very quickly…