PageRank Fraud - watch out!

If you are going to buy an old domain, beware of risk to fall prey to a PageRank fraud. There is a whole industry of domain selling tricksters who sell old domains with fraudulent or hijacked PageRank.
Without going into details of how they do it (not to let bottom-feeders to replicate this), I’ll just summarise [...]

Canonical URL tag vs. 301 redirect

This is relatively new introduction from the major search engines - Google, Yahoo! and Live/MSN.
The purpose of canonical tag URL is to tell the search engines that the page it’s ascribed to is a copy of another webpage, and that all the search engines metrics should be passed/applied to  the canonical (original) page. Confusing? Ok. [...]

How to check if your site has been banned by Google?

Technorati Profile
If your site is at least 6 months old, has been constantly receiving a measurable traffic from Google and suddenly stopped receiving it completely, the site may have been banned.
If you site is new (less than 6 month old), has a fair amount (a few 100’s) of quality backlinks and you never received any [...]

Can Google AdWords Keyword Tool be Trusted to build keywords for an SEO campaing?

Introduction
The right choice of keywords is a crucial element of any SEO campaign if it is to be successful. Here one can use either Free or paid keyword suggestion tools.
When the Free Google AdWords keyword tool first appeared, many SEOs and webmasters decided that the days of Paid tools such as Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery or [...]

Does Nofollow on External Links Affect Your Ranking?

Evolution of Ranking Factors - Shift Towards Trust and Authority

Over the last several years there has been a significant shift in factors determining site rankings in Google.  While the value of Page rank and on-page SEO have started to diminish, the anchor-text links  and especially domain Trust and Authority have gained much more significance.
A simple graph illustrating the time trend of the above factors [...]

Unpleasant incident or “SEO Unpopularity and the Way Backwards”…

I am not a rowdy person, but I don’t like to be humiliated and I hate rudeness.
The case I want to tell you about happened to me at one of the most respected SEO blogs.
I saw a post “Seo, popularity and way forward“, which I found making too grandiose, but mostly useless precepts and wrote [...]

SEO and Webmaster Glossary

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Anchor - clickable part of a web link.  For example - “this is a Seo blog“. Everything within quotation marks is a link, but only Seo blog is [...]

How to find a trustworthy and experienced SEO expert?

If you are looking to outsource SEO campaign, it is wise to follow certain guidelines that will help you to find a trustworthy SEO company or an individual SEO expert. If you are not certain in a person you are hiring, you may end up with loosing your money or, even worse, failing the whole [...]

Blog commenting, part II: Techniques of blog commenting

This is a continuation of the article Blog commenting, part I: Benefits of blog commenting. If you haven’t read it, I recommend to read that first.
In this part of the article on Blog Commenting I shall consider commenting strategies that make sure your comments are welcome and accepted. I will also touch on some Blog [...]