I wrote recently about how this freelance writing blog and other websites of mine had been hit by Google Panda on the October 13 update. For those of you new to the concept, Google initiated a new algorithm early in 2011 to help improve its search results, primarily by reducing the amount of results from [...]
For those of you who are professional writers that don’t run your own websites online, you may not have heard of the Google Panda update. Essentially, Panda is an algorithm run by Google against its search index that it uses in the wake of stinging criticism about its search result being cluttered with low quality [...]
Like many other online writers, I was intrigued by the recent buzz surrounding the implementation of an HTML tag that lets search engines, like Google, know who the author of a webpage is. The idea is that if someone is a good writer who publishes lots of useful and well written online content, then perhaps [...]
After much Internet angst regarding Google’s most recent search engine algorithm update called Panda (or in some places, the Farmer update) there seems to be some discussion around what exactly is a content mill and how content mills work. What Do Content Mills Do? Content mills, like many forms of new media, are not specifically [...]
Deciphering how Google ranks websites and determines its Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) is the focus of Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. Numerous SEO professionals and SEO consultants offer ongoing advice to website publishers about how to get webpages to rank higher in Google search rankings, with the goal being to attain the coveted #1 [...]
Finding useful webhosting information is next to impossible. Most of the big, brand-name webhost companies out there offer very sizable pay to affiliates who refer people to their service. That means that almost every single comment on the entire Internet about which web hosting services are good and which web hosts are bad is tainted [...]
When Google released its Google Chrome web browser, it included a private browsing mode called Incognito Mode. When Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 it included a Privacy mode. When Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 it came with a Private Browsing mode. In all cases, these integrated browser privacy modes were met with almost universal derision. Most [...]
To get more search engine traffic there are a lot of things you can do. You can read all about search engine optimization until you go blind. You could even hire an SEO consultant if you have money to burn. You could comment on a thousand blogs a day with a link back to your [...]
Just days after I went through the trouble of pointing everyone to d8search as a way to get improved date searching out of Google search results, Google updated the features they offer in their own native search. The homepage of Google search is the same as ever with one minor, and by minor I mean [...]
I downloaded Google Chrome when it first came out just like all the other technology centric types did. I was impressed with its speed and I really liked that it seemed to import my passwords from Firefox (and slightly disturbed). But, without the plug-ins that I rely on, on a daily basis, I just couldn’t [...]
Recently, I’ve noticed that the more time I spend trying to “SEO” my various sites and pages, the less I actually write. That is a HUGE problem, because it turns out that nothing, and I mean nothing, counts as much for search engine results rankings than writing, or as the SEO pros call it, content. [...]
