Will be your website ranking affected by GoDaddy Tango Down

Today’s security breach took place at GoDaddy which resulted GoDaddy to be down for a few hours today. The web hosting, the email hosting. the domain management and domain registration have been affected for almost a half a day. GoDaddy website has been unavailable most of the afternoon.    What happened? The GoDaddy site has been hacked by genius AnonymousOwn3r who previously hacked Facebook and FBI sites. read more …

Google Want Unique Valuable Content

It’s not just duplicate content that will affect where you rank it seems but Matt Cutts of Google’s Webspam team also wants to see you bring additional value. Based on interviews with him on the matter if you have the same content as another site just written differently Google will try to catch this and while based on other factors you might have ranked second to another similar page you could get knocked down off the first page. If your SEO should have you on the first Read More +

12 SEO Steps for Small Business

These 12 steps are based on Google’s advice to small business owners with websites they may not have time to invest in with SEO research but who want to make sure they don’t get penalized and make sure they do benefit from organic SEO. 301 permanent redirects Use 301 permanent redirects to avoid pages appearing as duplicate content including with and without www. and with or without a / at the end of a URL. Duplicate content will be penalized in results, you should focus any link building Read More +

SEO for Small Business Can Be Done Right Way

As a small business finding time to do your SEO internally is one of the biggest barriers you will come across, unfortunately to do it well you need to work at it, this means setting aside time each day, either that or outsourcing it. SEO is partly about trial and error, once you have it setup rather than just leaving it you need to maintain it and as a lantern will go out if you don’t keep turning the wick your SEO rankings will drop and die out if you Read More +

Panda and Penguin Updates explained by Matt Cutts

According to Matt Cutts the Penguin Penalty isn’t what Google consider a penalty but simply an Algorithm change. All semantics really but Matt Cutts in an interview at SMX (the Search Marketing Expo) certainly didn’t seem to suggest he or Google had any remorse for the Penguin update they unleashed earlier this year. In an interview that will be fascinating to anyone with a passing interest in Search Engine Optimization Matt Cutts also confirms that there are no Penguin Updates yet despite what some think Read More +

Small Business Websites Should Think About Google Penguin Updates

If you ever thought as a webmaster that Google were on your side that myth may have been blown out of the water with Google Penguin. In the past Google have slowly rolled out changes and seen the effects they have had on sites before rolling them out completely. It seems with Google Penguin though Google have got fed up with being patient and just rolled out massive algorithm changes with little regard for what websites it effects. Google say Penguin improves search results for Read More +

Google’s 5 most common SEO mistakes

There are a lot of lists of SEO mistakes out on the internet but these ones are straight from the horse’s mouth, by which we mean Google, and they aren’t the standard ones you’ve probably seen time and time again before. The first two in fact tell you a lot about Google and the way they see websites, they realize they are marketing tools for business and that they must be a part of companies wider marketing, this in turn makes websites more relevant and useful presumably. Read More +

Google Zeitgeist Data May Provide Some Valuable SEO related information

Using link-bait content is standard SEO practice and a great way to do this is to create articles on the latest hot topics. If you are writing quality content on the latest hot trends then you should naturally get traffic anyway as well as you use on page SEO effectively and if you use Social Media to drive traffic. Twitter’s trending topics is one way to find out what hot topics at any time are, sometimes these change too quickly though. Google now though tells you what the trends Read More +

Google AdWords Is The Way To Go When Economy Goes South

Despite the US economy continues going south Google is making another record year earning in three quarters of 2011 very encouraging number of $27,321 billion which is just $2 billion shy of what Google earned in four quarters of 2010. Considering that  main Google’s revenue stream comes from the search advertising, these numbers show that Google AdWords advertising is the best type of advertising for any size businesses. read more …