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...

An Interview With Expert Web Copywriter Scott Smith

It is my pleasure to introduce to you Scott Smith, partner at CopyWriting.Net and copy writing guru. Before you read any further, however, I want to give you a heads up that this is not a normal article from StepForth. This is an unedited interview written in a very...

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...

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...

Wikipedia Links Useless for SEO

As reported in Search Engine Journal, in an attempt to eliminate spamming to Wikipedia, effective immediately all outbound links from the internet giant will have the “nofollow” tag appended. The “nofollow” tag was introduced a while back for...