How To Stop Your Pages From Disappearing

It may seem incredible, but it has been known to happen–a home page or other important anchor page simply disappears from Google’s rankings overnight.  When it does happen, clients sometimes do not know until the problem has been entrenched for some time, especially if they do not have someone monitoring their website performance on a … Read More

Banner Ads For All – Or Not? Google’s New Rules

According to a recent article, Google is changing the rules about showing banner ads on branded search results.  In the past, Google banned banner ads, but the search engine giant is apparently allowing them now, perhaps in response to opinions that other search engines have more visually appealing results.  While it is not yet clear … Read More

How Do I Use Nofollow Tags Successfully?

According to the experts, the nofollow tag is a useful little tool that can help you manage your SEO campaign effectively by blocking some tags from being picked up on by search engines.  While this may seem counterintuitive, there are good reasons not to count certain links as “votes” for search engines. In The Old … Read More

‘Tis the Season To Shop for Gadgets

According to the latest research on what consumers are looking for on the web, product searches have been taken over by fitness, mobile devices and gaming consoles.  This leads experts to believe that this holiday season will see a run on these types of items to be given as gifts.  These findings also have implications … Read More

The Challenge In Google’s New Algorithm

For those in the world of web marketing, at least for those concerned with how Google affects that field, the month of October has presented challenges to the way we find information.  Google “went dark” on providing those who own web sites with information on Google Analytics as to which search terms people are using … Read More

Is High Quality Content Always The Aim?

In the beginning was Google . . . and Google said that we all needed to be aiming for high-quality content.  Of course, Google did not really define what that meant, so we all took a stab at it and figured out our own definitions of “high quality,” eventually reaching consensus based on our SERPs.  … Read More