If you have been searching on Google, you might notice some of the author pictures are shown in the search engine result pages (SERPs), like below:
This is the power of Google authorship! It allows your picture to show up in the SERPs for the content written by you.
During the incipient phase of Google authorship, I… Continue reading | 23 Comments
Filed under SEO by on Oct 26th, 2012. 23 Comments. 
About a week ago (24 April 2012), Google announced another update referred as Penguin Update, which is another step to reward high quality sites, according to Official Google Webmaster Central. This is a major update, which significantly impact on a lot of websites since the Google Panda update, despite the claim of affecting around 3% of the queries by Google… Continue reading | 35 Comments
Filed under SEO by on May 3rd, 2012. 35 Comments.
Since my last post about Google Algorithm Update February 2012 – Link Evaluation, Matt Cutts announced that Google is working on search engine ranking penalty for “Over Optimized” sites. You can listen to the audio clip from Search Engine Land where Matt Cutts mentioned the penalty, or just take a look at the transcript extracted below:
“What about the people optimizing really hard and doing a… Continue reading | 31 Comments
Filed under SEO by on Mar 21st, 2012. 31 Comments.
It has been more than a week since Google announcement of their algorithm change in February 2012. There are in total 40 changes highlighted in the announcement. Out of those 40 changes, one of them, which I am concern on, is extracted from Google announcement:
Link evaluation. We often use characteristics of links to help us figure out the topic of a linked page. We have changed the… Continue reading | 26 Comments
Filed under SEO by on Mar 7th, 2012. 26 Comments.
Have you ever wondered how to get backlinks to rank a new site in a proper manner that Google loves? Getting your websites ranked on the front page of Google is everyone’s dream so that you can receive free traffic to your site. I know some of the people do have other traffic sources apart from Google, having organic traffic will be a bonus on top of various traffic sources… Continue reading | 52 Comments
Filed under SEO by on Jan 17th, 2012. 52 Comments.
What Is Link Wheel?
For those of you that are not familiar with link wheel, it is basically a SEO link building strategy that is very popular and will help your website to rank on front page of Google. An example of a typical link wheel linking structure is shown below:
How Link Wheel Works
Filed under SEO by on Dec 9th, 2011. 38 Comments.
YouTube, without further introduction to it, is the 3rd most visited site on internet. It is just right behind Google and Facebook. Can you imagine the huge pool of traffic on YouTube? If you haven’t tap into the YouTube to snap a piece of the cake, I strongly encourage you to read my previous post on Increase Traffic Via Video Marketing and get started right away.
In… Continue reading | 17 Comments
Filed under SEO, Traffic by on Dec 2nd, 2011. 17 Comments.
When I run my Market Samurai this morning, I was notified on the Shut Down of Yahoo Site Explorer. It was stated in Yahoo Search Blog that Yahoo Site Explorer will not be available from 21 November 2011.
Yahoo Site Explorer Shut Down Implication
I know a lot… Continue reading | 8 Comments
Filed under Online Tools, SEO by on Nov 22nd, 2011. 8 Comments.
Google have just updated the page rank today (8 November 2011) and I am glad to notice that the page rank of this blog become Page Rank 4, a great jump from Page Rank 1. I am actually not surprised not because of that I’ve already expected a leap of my Page Rank on this blog after all the hard work, etc…but because I know I just couldn’t figure out… Continue reading | 30 Comments
Filed under SEO by on Nov 8th, 2011. 30 Comments.
Build High Page Rank Backlinks Easily With This Free Backlink Tool
If you are still into the SEO game, you will be constantly looking for quality backlinks for your site. I was asked a lot of times regarding how to use the Google search string to get tons of high page rank backlinks from various sites including .edu and .gov sites. So, I have decided to spend some time to look into one of my little tools that will… Continue reading | 37 Comments
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Filed under SEO by Ming Jong on Sep 13th, 2012. 37 Comments.