The Google Sandbox is a concept that’s been around for over ten years. It was initially created to describe the phenomenon where websites would struggle to rank for months after any sort of bad SEO actions were penalized, even if those penalties were lifted. It was the cause of… Read more“The Ultimate Guide to Recovering From Google’s Sandbox”

  One of the easiest and most lucrative ways to monetize a blog is through affiliate links and affiliate networks; the modern iteration of lining your site with advertisements. There are a number of very good reasons to clearly mark your affiliate links, not the least of which because it’s… Read more“How to Hide Your Affiliate Links in an SEO Friendly Way”

  From the very beginning, Google – and other search engines that followed, grew, and lived or died – needed some way to find pages to index. At the start, Google used manual feeding with a staff of employees. With the size and scale of the Internet, however, this was… Read more“How to Make a SEO Friendly Robots Text File”

  Often times, when your site dramatically decreases in search ranking overnight, it’s because you’ve been hit with a Google penalty for something you’ve done. It might be the ad-to-content ratio. It might be purchased links or social signals. It might be keyword spam. Whatever the case, it’s something you… Read more“How to Detect If Your Website Is a Victim of Negative SEO”

  Anybody who has tried to set up a website for traffic are familiar with meta tag descriptions. These have long been significant for optimizing a website for better placement on a search engine results page. Simply put, this description is a very brief summary of the content of a… Read more“Every Page Doesn’t Need a Unique Meta Description”

  As the 21st century continues to unfold, more and more business owners are recognizing the importance of implementing effective internet marketing strategies. By maximizing SEO and other such strategies, business owners can ensure that they continue expanding their online presence and thereby gain more revenue through the goods and… Read more“Why Did My Rankings Drop After Using Google’s Disavow Tool?”

  One important part about engaging in search engine optimization is ensuring your website can easily be read by search engine robots and users alike. Though search engines are far more sophisticated and proficient than they were several years ago, they still are not fully able to understand a website… Read more“Which is Better For SEO, HTTP or WWW?”

  Google Analytics is a powerful reporting tool, recording the people and entities that visit your site and what they do while they’re there. There’s just one problem; robots. Robots ruin everything. Or, rather, robots skew your data tracking and data reporting. If a search engine crawler hits your page… Read more“How to Filter Out Bots from Google Analytics Reporting”

  If you’re about to launch a new business and you’re already investigating SEO, congratulations! You’re ahead of the average. If you’re migrating hosts or redesigning your website, now is a great time to investigate your web host of choice. Do they provide everything you need out of a host… Read more“How to Pick The Best Website Host for SEO and Speed”

  A 301 redirect is a type of code that works in much the same way that a postal change of address form works for physical mail. It essentially tells anyone looking to visit www.example.com that the real new address is www.newexample.com. Browsers automatically load the new URL. More importantly,… Read more“How Much Link Juice Is Lost with a 301 Redirect?”