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

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Blog commenting, part I: Benefits of blog commenting

Introduction
Blog commenting is becoming more and more popular nowadays, not only because it is an easy way to build FREE topical one-way links to your website, but also because it’s a great way to meet new people and make your name recognizable among other bloggers in your field. It is also a way to form [...]

Common mistakes about directories submission

Some people think the more backlinks you have the better, right? Well, not exactly!
Poor backlinks are worse nothing!
It’s the quality, not the quantity that matters!
Backlinks cannot hurt, even the worst ones (otherwise that could be used by your competitors to bring your site down), but you waste your time and, often, money while gathering [...]