Monthly Archives: April 2012

Have you been hit by the latest google algo update?

…If so then you have probably used too little variation in your anchor text.
It is not really new knowledge that having only a few anchor texts and thousands of links with that might not be a good idea and makes your backlinks profile stick out a bit. What is new is that google now pays even more attention to that and you will loose a lot of rankings if you don’t act now.

When Google announced the latest update they said it would come “in the next few days” … well actually it came the very next day. Rand Fsihkin of SEOMoz created a very good video in which he explains what you should do BEFORE the Algo Update comes … well the update is there so if you need hints what to avoid, now is the time to get your site straight:

Rand clearly teaches a very “white hat” approach and there might be a lot of SEOs who will tell you “…but method xyz still works” … and they are probably right.
It is a question of what you want to risk and how well you can manage those risks with methods that are little more on the grey side of white hat šŸ˜‰

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Have you ever wondered why certain websites show up at the top of the search engine results while others languish at the bottom? Letā€™s take an example and say you are searching for the keywords ā€œDog Trainerā€. That keyword phrase would put you in direct competition with just over 1 million other web pages. Sounds like a lot right? Well that depends on a few factors.

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When the SEO specialist starts work on there clientā€™s website thereā€™s a few things they must check to make sure that the search engines can read your site easily. Your websites code is one of these factors also your page layout and other design areas must be checked. Once they can rule out any problems with the latter they can then move on to your keywords.

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