A Few Questions and Answers

Online Forums are always a great place to find bits and pieces of information. Below are variations of questions I have found posted in some popular SEO forums, along with my answers. 1 – Q. The last Google update saw a number of my site pages find their way...

Yahoo Shown Miles Above Google for Retention

An interesting, albeit controversial, set of statistics was provided by Compete.com last week outlining the top 20 online properties that a pool of 2,000,000 people spent the most time on in December 2006. What struck me and other readers the most was the significant...

Correction for: The Most Common Reason for Dropped Rankings

Hello all, I wanted to clear up a significant issue with my recent article “The Most Common Reason for Dropped Rankings: Duplication”. It was edited closely but apparently not quite close enough. Please note the following change in a question within the...

Google Bombing Will Be No Longer Says Google

Yesterday Google’s official webmaster blog announced that Googlebombing will be soon a way of the past thanks to some targeted attention from the search results team. Here is the gist of the posting: We wanted to give a quick update about...

The Most Common Reason for Dropped Rankings: Duplication

Repeatedly my sales and consulting staff find themselves explaining that using duplicate content can and will negatively affect search engine rankings and it is heartbreaking to see clients having to rebuild rankings due to such a simple mistake. As a result, I felt...