You may have noticed that after five years, ConvertingCopy.com finally got a new makeover. Years ago, when I purchased the Flowhub theme which we’ve grown accustomed, I put a good bit of time into making tweaks here and there to get it how I wanted it, experiencing a lot of headaches along the way. More …
Matt Cutts, the face of Google’s SEO team, recently put out a shoutcast to address a new spam related algo update (another one?!) which has been nicknamed the Google PayDay loans algorithm update by a lot of search engine marketers. Google PayDay Loans Algorithm Update The name comes from the sorts of search queries the …
Google Penguin 2.0 is being rolled out and the effects are beginning to be felt. Last year around this time when the first Penguin updates were being rolled out, I covered how to make yourself Penguin proof and talked about what went into that update. To reduce it all to one term, “over-optimization” was the …
We have managed to sidestep the end of the world (fingers still crossed), so now we can turn our attention to this new year and specifically we can begin the discussion on what is going to work for SEO in 2013. Addressing what will work in SEO this year just as importantly means identifying what …
We can use Google Analytics to do a little detective work on our site to discover possible suspects when we see our traffic plummet. Sometimes just one page/keyword will account for the majority of your site’s traffic, and it’s easy to identify that if you’re not longer ranking well for that keyword that that’s likely …
Recently I covered how to overcome a bad link or links after getting the dreaded letter from Google which a lot of Webmasters received in the second half of April specifically as the Penguin update rolled out. I’ve also praised Market Samurai (see my Market Samurai video review) as one of my most valuable keyword/SEO …
The dreaded letter sent to you via your Google Webmaster Tools. A number of webmasters have gotten it in the past few months, particularly in light of the Google Penguin update, and if you don’t see your rankings disappear by the time you receive the letter, odds are the drop-off isn’t far behind. The letter …
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The internet is getting more complicated kids, and it’s “adapt or enjoy your page 31ranking”. The other day I talked about how to make yourself Google Penguin proof by talking about how to eliminate the mistakes and red flags which Penguin targets. Now today I’m going to talk about what actually works in terms of …
Google’s latest Penguin Update has caused a lot of people a lot of grief as well as income. It’s caused a lot of complaining from webmasters, as well, arguably a lot more than from last year’s Panda update. Panda was about shuffling up the SERPs to knock out the link farms and similar sites from …
YouTube (Google) has been phasing the like/thumbs up button out from YouTube and replacing it with their very own Plus 1 button in another desperate act of attempting to get people to use their “jury’s still out” social network, Google Plus. To Google’s credit, they have managed to not screw up YouTube since they acquired …
