Too Many Ads in the Header Bad for SEO

Google is now considering page layout as part of their ranking criteria. Although they claim actual search results affected will be under 1% we know every time Google makes an estimate like that you should add 10 points to the number. It’ll also be interesting...

Yahoo! Site Explorer Closes for Good

RIP YSE. Web marketers, for the most part, have lost a tool for link discovery, mostly for competitors. What Goolge Webmaster Tools puts behind closed doors, the YSE was publicly available to all. This year it was announced with the merge of Bing! Microsoft and Yahoo!...

When Link Building Tactics Stop Working

We’re getting an increased number of inquiries from prospective clients looking for web promotion/link building services. The #1 reason why is that their current off-shore (or closer to home) ‘web marketers’ aren’t doing the job. Why is that?...

Google Panda Update Spanks Content Farms

The latest round of updates from Google–dubbed Panda–leaves content farms at the short end of the stick. Some context. Google adjusts their ranking algorithms daily. Sometimes they make larger tweaks that tend to catch the attention of SEOs (and those who...