Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Back to SEO Basics – from Site Review Session at Google I/O 2009

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

In between the whole nofollow-gate affair, SMX Advanced, Google indexing links in Java and a velvet revolution in Iran, there was a Google I/O conference. The conference sounded like a pretty cool place to be, especially with the Google Wave announcement and the Android phones being given out to all ...

Google News Listing Troubleshooting

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

We usually focus on optimization for the organic SERPs, but there is a lot of traffic to be found in other Google Services as well. For example, if we look at the levels of traffic other Google subdomains are receiving, we will find that even though the numbers drop sharply ...

Google counting only the first link to a domain – rebunked

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

OK, so not so long ago Rand put out a post saying that Google will count only one link to a URL from any given page. This is a phenomenon that was originally noticed by Michael VanDeMar but many an eyebrow was risen at both posts. That particular facial hair ...

Anatomy of a Google Filter/Penalty (or how not to do nofollow PR sculpting)

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

OK, so after a long break, I'm trying to get back on track with posting. Had a great time in South Africa (owe an apology to Viperchill for not giving him a call, family business was crazy mate, but I get there about once a year so maybe next time?), ...

Natural Link Building

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

It's been a while since the last post, mainly due to the echoes of the conference, we are getting involved in several exciting SEO projects and there is less and less time to do experiments and build pretty graphs everyone liked so much. :) I am hoping that in the ...

Google vs. Paid Links – how will it end ? Lessons from Mother Nature

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

So I hear there is this thing going with Google not wanting people to buy links from other people and lowering their toolbar PR, taking away their ability to pass link juice through links. Terrible stuff! There are even frightening reports of adult SEOs getting lumps in their throats at ...

Sphinn gets your site indexed in Google in just a few hours

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

How long does it take for a page on a brand new domain to get indexed and showing in Google's SERPs ? Weeks, if not months. Well, not if you Sphinn them. Here is a study case of my new blog and the super-fast indexing it experienced in last few ...

How to find linking resources through Google AdWords

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Any webmaster/SEO has reached the same inspirational rock bottom when it comes to getting links to a website close to his heart - link source exhaustion. With all the directories submitted to, hundreds of emails sent to webmasters, thousands of comment/signature spam links left, you have the will, you have ...

My Request from Google

Friday, December 14th, 2007

In the last few years, we can see a lot of effort coming out of Mountain View* to reach out to webmasters and assist them with managing their rankings and the ways their web property is perceived by Google spiders. The toolbar PR, the ever expanding Webmaster Tools, Matt Cutts ...