Niche Keyword Research for Small Businesses Using Free Tools
Let’s face it! You’re not the owner of Amazon, Google or Wikipedia! Not even close! As a freelancer or small business you most probably optimize for a niche audience. Your website can’t compete with the behemoths of the Web!
How Embedding YouTube Videos on Your Blog Backfires
Many bloggers add YouTube videos to their posts. Often the whole post consists of a video. Here are the most common ways how embedding YouTube videos on your blog backfires.
What rel=”nofollow UGC sponsored” Really Means – Not What it Says
You know what the “nofollow” attribute does. It cripples hyperlinks … for Google.
Now we have more of those attributes! What do they really mean?
How to Optimize Your Website for Privacy to Gain More Business
When it comes to online business: are you a creepy stalker invading people’s privacy for profit? Or do you optimize your website for privacy? Do you have dozens of trackers installed on your site?
25+ Shocking Remarks on Search & Social Media to Ruin the Holidays
It’s the holiday season again. Christmas and New Year’s Eve are always a time when we are confronted with real life. We can’t connect to Facebook all the time, tinkering with websites is frowned upon by partners, children and other…
10 SEO Myths that Make You Look Stupid
One of the most popular ways to teach people about search engine optimization seems to be to point out what’s wrong about it. There are plenty of “SEO myths” posts out there and they get shared a lot. I usually…
SEO is Dead – PIG is the New SEO
* With a new wave of “SEO is Dead” posts appearing I thought it’s about time I added something to the debate again. Nowadays Google forces us to grant them access to private files like CSS stylesheets or JS scripts….
Is Your Site Really Mobile-Friendly or Just Pleasing Google?
* The good news first: making a site mobile-friendly is easy. I have converted my custom built and decade+ old main site to responsive web design myself. I managed to do it myself even though I don’t work as a…
6 Spam-Free Link Building Methods that Won’t Make Google Cry
* This is a post written by the team of freelance-seo.co.uk with a few suggested changes by myself. One day the Internet was shaken to its core by Google’s cry that guest blogging for SEO purposes is dead – to…
Google Sells Endorsements to SEO Agencies
Last time I have written about Google on this blog I promised to be more positive about the search-monopolist mega-corporation advertising company. You know, it’s not easy for me after all the issues I had with Google. Nonetheless this time…
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Guest Post by Matt Cutts on Spammy Link Building [Satire]
This is a guest post by Matt Cutts, Google’s “head of spam” by day and well known SEO blogger by night. I added some text decoration/formatting here and there to stress the main message and to improve readability. In my…
Do I Hate Google?
By now you might ask: do I hate Google? It’s no wonder, after all I write things like why and how to nofollow Google Google alternatives: search engines… are SEOs selling out to Google? etc. all the time it seems….
Why and How to Add nofollow When Linking Google Sites
In one of my recent posts I threatened Google with symbolic retaliation for their ruthless attacks on webmasters and the open Web. My idea back then was still somehow metaphorical. I said I will “nofollow” Google that is devalue outgoing…
How to Spot a Fake Link Removal Request
Are your links unnatural or do they grow on trees? When Google invented “unnatural links” by simply deciding that some links are unnatural while others are not they also created the problem of large scale “negative SEO“. Then they professed…
Hey Google! Sunset Your Unnatural Oral Action or I’ll Nofollow You
* Do you remember the days when “manual action” was something desirable and NSFW? Listening to Google spokespeople turns more bizarre with the years. They have come up with their own language to hide the sour facts of penalties faulty…
Questions to Ask Yourself Before Each Project
* There are a lot of down to earth questions to ask yourself before you launch a website or blog. The big ones like “how will this pay for itself” aka the business model or “who is going to read…
Free Traffic vs Gatekeeper Traffic
* Usually I prefer to speak about visitors not traffic as in people visiting your site. Why? The term traffic is too fuzzy. It fails to really explain what is going on on the Web. It’s a misleading metaphor when…
10 Things the Unnatural Links Penalty Taught me About Google and SEO
I didn’t expect to get penalized for unnatural links at all, that’s why I noticed it very late. Also the whole process of dealing with the unnatural links penalty has been “problematic” itself to say the least. Here are the…
Quality Sites Are the New Links and Santa Exists
According to Google and Search Engine Land the decades old practice of link building has been replaced by “building quality sites” back in 2013. Is SEO dead then, again? No, that’s not a joke. This is official. The webmaster guidelines…
Where Did All The Search Traffic Go?
* BuzzFeed reports that “Traffic from Google to digital publishers dropped 30% over the past eight months.” based on traffic statistics from over 200 major media properties, among them BuzzFeed Time Huffington Post Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated Overall social media…
