Just this past Friday, Matt Cutts, a key engineer at Google, announced an algorithm update for Google that is biased against ads. Although this update doesn’t have a name yet (and it will soon), it is a filter to remove websites from Google’s index that are top heavy on advertising.…
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Can You Even Get SEO Juice From a Subdomain?
For best search engine benefits what is the best configuration for your blog a subdomain or a subdirectory? First, it is important to clearly identify the difference of a subdirectory versus a subdomain. Subdirectory example: http://www.mccordweb.com/weblogs/ Subdomain example: http://blog.mccordweb.com How search engines handle the two is entirely different. So set…
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SEO Is Much More Than Code Optimization
Organic placement improvement for your website is much more than code optimization. In fact I have seen some sites whose code is not really optimized still place well. But for the typical business website code optimization is a start and just one of the pieces of the puzzle that need…
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Five Years Ago I Had Great Organic Placement
I have had a rash of prospects tell me that their organic placement has dropped so much after they paid a ton of money for a new website that they want to repost the website they had five years ago to get their old traffic and Google.com placement back. Sorry, but…
