We’ve been through another full year, and it’s as good a time as ever to check out some interesting Google stats. According to Torrent Freak, Google received more than 345,000,000 million link removal requests for 2014. This is a 75% increase compared to the number of link removal requests for the year of 2013. Torrent Freak stated […]
Several days ago, it was reported that China has not only blocked access to Gmail, but to other Google properties as well. It seems that the censorship hammer that China has been swinging around lately has even impacted Google Search in China as well. By checking out Google’s transparency report for Web search access within China there […]
So, that flightless bird we all know and love, Penguin, is a pretty big thing for Google. After all, Penguin is one of their big algorithms for their search engines that is aimed at decreasing search engine rankings of websites that are violating Google’s Webmaster Guidelines by declaring black hat SEO techniques that are meant […]
Writing this particular blog post, I realize that this will be one of the last batch of posts that I right for the entire year of 2014. After today, I will be able to lay to rest another entire collection of blog posts for the entire year. For me, that’s a pretty decent milestone, as […]
This video, which was created back in October, presents Rand from Moz as he guest stars on the Melbourne SEO and Video YouTube channel. During the interview, Rand was asked questions like, What is is the role of an SEO? How to measure SEO results? What are the future trends in online marketing for 2015? Check out […]
When you’re working in the SEO field, out of all the different things to do, there are those who feel PPC in overall online marketing strategy is easily discountable. This is because with other forms of online marketing, if they succeed, a number of things will happen: Improved search engine optimization Content increase backlinks Usability […]
As many of you know, Google loves to change up their algorithms. They like to change up a lot. Google tends to change their search algorithm around 500-600 times every year. If you were one of the ones who wasn’t aware of this, it’s time you know. But, for the most part, there shouldn’t be […]
To Google, when it comes to how they are using their search algorithm, the search giant is trying to be pretty ambiguous about it. But, you’d have to be blind not to see that here is a glaring ranking factor that SEOs just aren’t optimizing for. In this special Christmas episode of Whiteboard Friday, Rand, […]
So who’s happy that it’s the end of the year? I’m sure most of you will probably, at least to some extent, agree that it is great that we have reached another year’s end in the world of SEO. Most people have checked out as well. People are out of the office, many are on […]
So you’re an SEO who’s been working on a client’s pre-launch website for a good length of time trying to make sure it ranks well on Google and other search engines. You’ve optimized all of the important pages, all the content, and everything else on the site. But just days before the launch of the […]