Recovering from Penguin – Exact Match Anchors vs On-Page Keyword Density – Part 1
Penguin hit the blackhat community hard. It’s not often mentioned, but this update drove a significant portion of blackhat SEOers into leaving the industry for good. Suddenly, the cheap link packages and software that used to...
Google’s Topical PageRank, Like The Old PR But More Nichey
What is the topic of your site? If there is an overall theme, one specific niche that your pages are focused on, Google has a patent discussing onsite and offsite ranking factors, which makes use of relevance of pages on your own...
Searches For Your Site Are Pure Gold – Panda’s Branding Patent
In May of 2015, Google was awarded a patent that calculates the quality of your site. It was attributed to Navneet Panda, the same gentleman after whom the Panda algorithm was named. This patent determines your site’s quality...
Google Detecting Hidden Content Resulting in Filter Penalties
A patent was issued in 2013 to Google’s very own Matt Cutts, in regards to methods used to discover hidden content, and hidden links. While many of you may be thinking “This doesn’t affect me, I don’t hide...
Why Flip Sites? Reasons Why Selling Your Domain Make Sense
If a site is making good money, why would you want to sell it? This is a good question, especially if you’re looking for a long term business that will receive dividends for years to come. Following are some reasons why you should...
Pages Indexed on Free Blogs Are Dropping – What It Means To You
There is a trend with Google that, when you step back and consider it, you realize the future of where SEO is headed. I’m talking about “pages indexed”. Google is literally dumping pages from it’s index at an...
Building Sites on Free Hosts vs Regular Hosted Domains
Here are some advantages and disadvantages of building sites on domains that you own and host, compared with a subdomain that’s given to you by a place like Blogger or Tumblr. Each has its place in both building a money site,...
Links for Cookies – Top 10 Flavors – Part 2 of 2
This is page 2 of “Links for Cookies”, an article that describes how to gain whitehat links by offering treats for leaders in your niche. We continue the top 10 list below. #5 – Niche-Specific Directory You Control...
Links for Cookies – Top 10 Flavors – Part 1 of 2
I have a cookie that you really want. It’s a yummy, chocolate chip cookie. I’ll give it to you, for a link. This isn’t buying links, because the last I checked — cookies aren’t money. A cookie can be better...