Google just informed us all on Twitter that Panda 3.4 is underway. Actually we don’t know what the update is as of yet because nobody knows for sure how substantial this update is. However Google states that only about 1.6% of all searches will be affected which is a very small number so my guess is this is simply a continuation of what was started with 3.3
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There is a lot of speculation running wild right now about Google’s upcoming Semantic Search algorithm changes and what it means in terms of SEO and getting ranked. Google estimates between 10 – 20% of searches will be affected.
It really wasn’t all that long ago I was out of work, had no car, more credit card debt then I ever had in my life and really wasn’t sure how I was going to make it each day.
If you have ever been so broke that you are making choices between which bills to pay each month because they can’t all be covered, than you know how I felt.
My love/hate relationship continues with Google. Nothing on this planet affects my emotions in such a dichotomous way.
While I do wish their was another search engine that pushed the competition a little bit more, and at times Google makes my blood boil… It’s a very fascinating company with a truly great product (there is a reason nobody uses Bing)
It’s been extremely shocking to me that so many people have been saying that Private Blog Networks (PBN’s) were not specifically targeted by Google. Of course they always base it on their own experience which is a poor way to judge anything.
They think because their sites were not smacked and they have hundreds or even
Google and Bing recently sat down for an Q & A session about SEO and where it’s going. Some very interesting things were revealed in that conversation.
For the first time it was mentioned that over optimized websites will get penalties.
Over Optimization Penalties now seem to include:
1. Pure White Hat On Page Optimization
Unless you are a rediculous student of
Talent is Overrated – That’s the name of a book I just finished by Geoff Colvin and he made a couple points about Success, Deliberate Practice and Passion in that book which really stuck out to me and I wanted to share them with you in this video and give you some of my personal thoughts
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In the last Panda Update (version 3.3) Google announced to the world they turned off one of their old link analysis algorithms which lead to a great deal of speculation and in some cases outright panic.
Google often turns off old algorithms though and in many cases it replaces them with better ones so this news shouldn’t
Monsanto and government corruption are teaming up to take away your rights across the globe as they raid organic, natural vegetable and milk farms and stores.
This is the first time and hopefully the last time I will write on this blog completely off topic but this is such an important issue I feel as though
Let’s start off with the basics. What exactly is a Bounce Back Rate and Click Through Rate?
Bounce Back Rate (BBR)
When someone is searching for websites in the search engines and they click on your website. If they hit the back button and go back into the search results, that’s a “Bounce Back”. Whether they were