This is a guest post by Brandon Hopkins.
If you’ve been on a deserted island for the last year you probably haven’t heard about Google Authorship. If you’ve been around and you’re just stubborn, you probably haven’t implemented the Google Authorship tags. If you’re in the latter group, here is more information to get started.
What benefit is there to adding the Google...
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I’ve decided today that I’m going to boycott sites that use reCAPTCHA. I’m sick and tired of fighting with that thing. I can never, ever read those words. I spent 20 minutes just now trying to register with a site, and refreshed the recaptcha over 70 times! I even attempted to use the spoken version of it, and still couldn’t get it right! This happens to me all the freaking time....
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We’ve all seen the lists of the top big sites that lost rankings in Google’s Panda Farmer update on February 24, 2011. A good summary can be found here. It wasn’t long before we started hearing small site owners trying to be heard as they said that they too had been hit. Of course, the list of those sites might be huge, but we’ll rarely get a chance to hear about them, because...
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Oh, where to start. First of all, if you only read my blog to get tips and pointers on how to make money online, then this little rant probably won’t be of any interest to you. But if you remember my SEO rants of the past, then perhaps you’ll want to continue reading.
A Virtual Smack Upside The Head
I have a lot of friends and acquaintances in the SEO industry, some that I’ve been happy...
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PPCBlog has done an outstanding job of explaining the process (as much as can really be explained by anyone outside of the Google inner circle), using an easy-to-understand infographic. I love infographics anyway, but this is one of the best I’ve seen in a long while. Kudos.
Check it out (click to enlarge). Study. Learn. Implement.
Infographic by PPC...
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This is one of those posts that will only interest a subset of my normal readers.
UPDATE: Since I wrote this post, Matt Cutts of Google admitted that Mayday was an algo change targeted at serving up better long-tail results. It’s been implied that this was aimed at dealing with content farms such as Mahalo that rank well for autogenerated and scraped pages. For a different viewpoint and links to some...
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No matter how small our tiny little microbusinesses might be, we still need to let people know that we exist. Of course, the standard, tried-and-true way of doing that is by advertising. Since our businesses are of the virtual, online type rather than the brick-and-mortar type, it only makes sense that we should concentrate much of our advertising online.
Luckily for us, online advertising is generally...
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The following is a guest post from Ben Johnson of Logoinn, custom logo design service provider based in UK.
One of the most crucial activities when crafting a marketing and branding plan is to get a logo for your company. A well-designed custom logo communicates a message to the public, conveying what your business is all about. Although Google’s logo is well-known and well-designed, Google often...
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Over time, I’ve written guest posts or contributory posts on several sites across the web. It occurred to me today that some of you might benefit from those postings, because they focus on topics that I don’t tend to delve into very much here on this blog. So I’ve rounded them up and hopefully I’ve included them all, but I can’t promise that I didn’t forget about one...
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I released a new open source, free tool that will hopefully help everyone in the fight against having their sites hacked.
We all hear about how often people’s sites get hacked. This tool won’t stop that from happening, but here’s what it *will* do.
Let’s say a hacker places some malicious code in either some existing files on your site, or in new files on your site. Regardless of...
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