Damaging a Competitor’s Ranking is Possible

A June 28th article by Forbes magazine called “The Saboteurs of Search” discusses “negative SEO” which is best described as purposely disrupting competitor rankings. The article has caused waves in the SEO industry as marketers debate the...

How Safe is Your Search?

Roughly 4 percent of all search results display links to potentially dangerous websites, according to a report published by McAfee’s SiteAdvisor, on Monday. The report notes that Yahoo results are the riskiest with AOL leading the pack as having the safest results....

Adwords Hackers Stopped – For Now

An AdWords Exploit has been put to rest recently by Google after scammers running “smarttrack.org” attempted to capture users banking details and other private information. At Inside Adwords, the official AdWords Blog, a post was noted late last month regarding the...

Google Protects Surfers from Harmful Websites

In a move that has been long in coming Google has chosen to provide a safer environment for its patrons by blocking access to sites that appear to have malicious code. The genius, in my opinion, is they are not blocking the sites from appearing but offering a warning...

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...