Google has taken the position is that paid links are for advertising and traffic purposes only. In their ongoing quest to clean their index of spammy sites, Google recently enabled a feature allowing paid link spam reports. Google has renewed their battle against those people who also use paid links for SEO purposes. We have [...]

By now you have certainly heard of the tag and ping concept, and good old fashioned common sense dictates that the more tagging you do, the more successful you will be and the faster you will enjoy that new found success. The web was built on automation, which clearly indicates the brutal power of having [...]

Tagging and Social Bookmarking are monstrously effective in driving traffic by driving up search engine placement. The problem is that not all tags will benefit you equally. Ascertaining and taking advantage of high-traffic tag results pages in the tag engines is the name of the game. Here’s how the pros effectively tag with preciseness the [...]

Google has in it’s algorithm a method that detects over-optimized websites. The detected websites are downranked in the Google search results. This over-optimization filter in Googles ranking algorithm is also called the “-950 penalty” because that is what may well happen to over-optimized web pages as they are downranked 950 positions. Google’s anti-spam engineer Matt [...]

One of the easiest ways to capture the power of this new model of the web and to cash in early is to get the inside information on it. Go to: Automatic Authority Site Builder and get the insiders information. Just to give you a little background on what Web 2.0 is about (in part) [...]

There are many forums on the Net as we all know. The biggest problem with online marketing forums is the huge amount of misinformation and total nonsense that gets posted with out ever being corrected, this tends to lead people down the wrong path. Forum Know-how is something different and rectifies that position. This forum [...]

Below is a link to a great 6-minute video where Les Rhode from Stommper Net explains how important the “no follow” technique is in increasing your search engine position simply by adding a few tags to your homepage. This works especially well for any site with many pages linked from the homepage. As he points [...]

An RSS feed is a format that allows certain content to be pushed to your computer. Newsletters, favorite blogs or columnists and news sites use it when they have frequent publishing schedules. Users can subscribe to a feed and receive only that information they sign up for. Usually, Web users must install a feed reader [...]

The importance of you web page design is vital to success on the Internet. A well designed page and good testing of the right message to the right market will tell you everything else you need to know. Here’s a check list to make sure your pages are properly designed. Rank each of the following [...]

Everyone must understand the terms of service of the major search engines. Google’s guidelines are located at http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html Yahoo’s best resource is: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/basics/basics-18.html and all of the other search engines have similar rules. A few people make a living fooling Google, hopefully you are not one of them. Even if you think you can fool [...]