Sam Applegate made this wickedly funny spoof video on how to rank # 1 on Google. I LMAO! Thought some of my readers might get a kick out of it too! Thanks Darren Shaw for sharing it with me.
Are Your Google Place’s Reviews Missing?
Recently missing Google Place’s reviews has gotten even worse then normal. Missing reviews has always been a challenge for Google Places, just look at all the threads on Google Places forum about it. Not sure if it’s a bug or a really unsophisticated spam algorithm. Personally I say bug. Looks like Google Places is aware [...]
Google’s Over-Optimization Penalty – Is It Affecting Your Small Business’s Website Rankings?
Google’s long anticipated over-optimization penalty is now live. So Google released another update on April 24th, 2012 being called by SEO’ers as Google’s “Over-Optimization Penalty”. Except Google is calling it an algorithmic update that’s targeting web spam. Google Claims: “Panda change affected about 12% of queries to a significant degree; this algorithm affects about 3.1% [...]
How Does Google Rankings Work?
How Does Google Search Rank Your Small Business Website? We get this question all the time about how Google Search ranks websites. Above is a great introduction video given by (Google’s Head of Web Spam) Matt Cutts. If you ever wondered how does Google crawl the web and then determine which web pages get ranked [...]
Did You Get a Google Webmaster Notice?
Have you received this message in your Google Webmaster account? Subject: Google Webmaster Tools notice of detected unnatural links to (Removed for Privacy) Dear site owner or webmaster of (website) We’ve detected that some of your site’s pages may be using techniques that are outside Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural [...]
Is This Another Google Places Review Bug?
Is This Another Google Places Bug? The only thing guaranteed with Google Places is: lots and lots of hiccups. Not sure how long this review bug has been showing up now, but I caught this today when reviewing some Google Places Listings. If you look to the image to the left, you can see all [...]
Important Google Places Change For At-Your-Door Service Based Business (And Google Place Spammers)
Google Places updated their Guidelines on March 22, 2012 “If you don’t receive customers at your location, you must select the “Do not show my business address on my Maps listing” option within your dashboard. If you don’t hide your address, your listing may be removed from Google Maps.“ I first read that Andrew Shotland [...]
