Search results

This is very difficult to say with certainty, but Google has really been stepping up their efforts in the last months with Panda and Penguin.

Google claims they are sufficiently suited to handle boilerplate language in most instances and the algorithms won’t penalize your site. Many webmasters beg to differ, so tread cautiously here.

To improve your ranking you should strongly consider blog directories, social networks, articles, as well as allowing guest blogging. Also consider rotating your contact formats.

Many digital cameras store these within larger images and the spiders are looking for this date, so keep this in mind when developing your websites.

Search engine results in Google are typically good for this users specific location and Google assume this is what you want unless you specify otherwise.

You should ideally seek a 50 to 1 rate of Twitter followers to each follow back in order to have any meaningful Seo help. Consequently, you should avoid using auto follows.

That being said, you should still try to avoid link farms, duplicate content, and any other popular schemes which dilute the Serps effectiveness.

Is this merely a coincidence, or has Google’s acquisition of the Zagat restaurant review services impacted their algorithms? Some are speculating the latter.

A punctuation mark by itself in a search query seems to be viewed as a character, unless you use it several times. Most of the punctuation searches seem to be bringing up wiki results for now, but I’m sure that will change once the wrinkles are ironed out.

The recent ad above the fold penalty impacts less than 1 percent of total searches according to recent research. If you were hit by this update, the fix is relatively simple. Remove the ads and wait for Google to crawl your site again.

If your sites has too many ads above the fold, your site will suffer in rankings. This isn’t a new development really, but more of a tweaking of the original Panda update.

In an effort to improve user experience, Bing has aggressively gone after sites with dead links, softs 404s and any pages missing meta data, so be sure to make the appropriate changes to your sites.

Recent updates to Bing maps getting mixed reviews.  Now they have changed from push pins to circles which change color based on your location.