This is part 3 of the Evergreen Ranking Formula. In part 1 (click here to read it) we talked about the main element of this formula “quality and engaging content” and how to create it and in part 2 (click here to read it) we went over website structure and brandable domains. In this blog post I’ll go over the …
Evergreen Ranking Formula Part 2
This is part 2 of the Evergreen Ranking Formula. In part 1 (click here to read it) we talked about the main element of this formula “quality and engaging content” and how to create it. In this blog post we will go over how to structure your site. If you want to achieve and maintain high rankings you need to …
Evergreen Ranking Formula Part 1
There are a lot of theories going around on how to rank websites after everything that Google has done to ensure the quality of their search results. In this blog post series I’m going to share with you a system for building and ranking websites that has been working for me and that I think will work from here on …
The 2 Sides of Google's New Disavow Tool
It’s no secret that Google has been waging something of a war against spammy backlinks in recent months. Their algorithm has been beefed up, revamped and revised repeatedly to make low quality links less valuable and in some cases detrimental to your site. Of course like in all wars there has been some collateral damage. Through all of the recent …
Thousands of Long Tail Keywords for Any Niche in Minutes
If you’ve already tried finding long tail keywords for your niche, you know how much work it can be. I used to spend as much as 5 hours of my time (more times than I care to think about) sifting through piles of keyword research data, when I could have been doing other things. But because every single good long …
Taming Panda and Penguin – What Do Search Engines Really Want?
Since early 2011, Google has repeatedly updated and changed their core algorithm in such a way that tens or even hundreds of thousands of websites saw significant rank loss. One day at the top of the results for their target terms and the next scrapping for hits. There has been plenty of discussion about what Panda and later Penguin did …
Taking Advantage of the Penguin Update and How to Recover From It
It’s been more than a week since the latest Google algorithm update (the Penguin update) and all of us in the SEO and IM world are still assessing the damage. I’ve received a lot of feedback during the past week from fellow IMers on how their rankings and traffic has dropped dramatically, some of them are even considering the idea …
What to do About Google's New Major Algorithm Update
Google has started to roll out its new algorithm aimed at penalizing overly SEO’ed sites and it’s hitting hard on as they say “the bad guys” but some “good guys” are suffering too. Search results are quite weird at the time of writing this but I hope things will start to normalize soon. Here’s what Google is saying: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html But …
Is There Such a Thing as Too Much SEO? Google says “Yes”
According to Matt Cutts (Google’s head of the search spam team) Google will be releasing a new algorithm which will penalize overly SEO’ed sites. Too much SEO? What does that mean? In an attempt to “level the playing field” between sites with good content and low rankings, versus overly-optimized sites, Google is targeting sites which have “too many links” or …
The 4 Pillars of a Money Making Website
A lot of people have the misconception that making money online is difficult. And to some extent they are right; particularly if they go about it the wrong way. But there is a tried-and-true, proven process that you can follow to create a nice income online – and although it is not a get-rich-quick scheme if you do it right …