What Is Google PageRank Sculpting?
Call it whatever you like: PageRank Hording, PageRank Siloing, or it’s latest name, PageRank Sculpting. The truth of the matter is, it’s all the same thing. The idea behind it is that, instead of allowing all your site links and outbound links to be dofollow, you cut off the unnecessary ones by using a nofollow tag. Read the rest of this entry
How Latent Semantic Indexing Works
When you’re planning out a new website, the first thing that you do before you launch is some simple keyword research, right? You want to make sure you’ve got your primary keywords and the similar long tail versions that you need to account for as well. By doing this type of research you’ll be able to grasp how competitive the number one spot is for all of your terms and figure out exactly how much effort you’ll need to put into ranking them. But focusing all your attention on just using these keywords is not enough.
The Dangers of Google Knol
Taking a look back, shortly after YouTube was purchased by Google, their results seemed to instantly flood the search engine results page. Makes it kind of suspicious as it looks like Google is giving more weight to their in house material.
Top Five SEO Tips From Matt Cutts
Google Guy Matt Cutts had a chance to sit down earlier this month with USA Today and discuss with them a little bit about SEO. In the interview, Cutts referenced five tricks that everyone should follow when it comes to performing SEO on a website. A word of caution from the man himself, don’t over do any of these techniques as you may actually find yourself penalized or banned from the search engines for doings so. Without further ado:
Utilizing Google Webmasters Tools - Part 3
Links
The links tab provides you with plenty of great options to help you see what links Google can see internally and externally. There are three different options within this tab.
Benefits Of NoFollow Links
The original purpose of the nofollow tag was to limit spam. Apparently, Google underestimated just how dedicated spammers are, because it didn’t limit their attempts at all. The tag itself is consider to be a way to link to a site without providing them any link juice or between internal pages to keep the link juice from flowing to unneeded pages (ToS and the like). But many SEO’s and webmasters will tell you that nofollow links are completely useless when trying to build up your site, and the truth of the matter is, that’s completely false.
Is Google Making webmasters face-off against each other?
This year has been a little crazy for the webmaster community with out of order PR updates and also the new feature that Google rolled out that will allow people to identify who sells links on their site to Google……yeah, I said it, you can now pretty much destroy your competition! This new feature that Google pulled has had the webmaster community up in a roar because why does Google get to say how we make our money, right? If we have created a great site and would like to monetize it with some paid links, then why does google have to say that it is not ok. They have just given the power into the hands of people that can systematically destroy each other until the other wins!
