How to Identify a Google Penalty

Last week I wrote a story called “How a Google Penalty Can Make Your Site Stronger” and since then I have received a lot of inquiries about how to identify if a site has been penalized. Instead of answering every email individually, which I could never...

How a Google Penalty Can Make Your Site Stronger

Over the past 12 years consulting on web marketing  I have answered countless questions but one question I receive often stands out from all; how to remove a Google penalty. The following is an example of a question I received in the past from a person named Patrick:...

Google Search Share Drops for 3rd Month in a Row

Earlier today Nielsen Online (pdf) released the latest search share rankings. Figures are pretty much what one would expect, Google far in the lead followed by Yahoo and MSN, but this past month Google has taken another small hit. April and May of 2009 each saw Google...

Block Your Competitors from Using IIS SEO Toolkit

I was just reading more about the IIS SEO Toolkit when I came across the following interesting tutorial on how to block competitors from running the IIS SEO Toolkit on your servers. If you have an asp-based website then this is a mandatory update in my opinion unless...

Top Posts on Tips

Here are the top posts on “Tips” from the old StepForth SEO Blog. The Ten Minute Optimization REDUX – A SEO Tips White Paper ‘A 10 minute process to optimize a web page for top search engine rankings.’ How to Troubleshoot Dropped Search Engine...

Two Great Tips for Optimizing Your Linkedin Account

I came across a video on Twitter yesterday (thanks to user @mypluginplay) and after watching it I learned a few things about LinkedIn (a property where I have a profile but I haven’t researched yet) that were definitely worthy of sharing. You can change and thus...