Google’s Spam fighting captain, Matt Cutts announced the launch of NoFollow Google Help Center in a video interview today with Mike McDonald of WebProWorld at the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle, Washington, USA.

I wonder why Google has launched the help center for NoFollow. About 99% of the world does not even know what NoFollow links […]

If a site links to another site from every page, those links are called site-wide links. If you are buying links, it may look as a good option to receive hundreds of incoming backlinks for the price of one link, however, most search engines would count only the most powerful link which is relevant. Site-wide […]

We often hear the SEO advice that ‘Content is the King’, and search engines like Google favor good quality content. Many people confuse it with creating more pages, and they often end up in buying software like spam site generators, automated content generators and scrapping tools. Many others buy cheap articles and stuff […]

Many webmasters give importance to inbound links, but are reluctant to link out to other sites - trying to hoard the pagerank. However, many search engines including Google grade your pages based on the sites you link to, apart from the content and inbound links.
Linking out if done properly can improve your ranking in […]

A Common SEO mistake made by many webmasters is that they are not consistent when it comes to linking to their URLs across their site.
If some of your links go to the URL http://yoursite.com, and the rest go to http://www.yoursite.com/, your link popularity gets divided among these two URLs - thus affecting the pagerank as […]

Most of my clients in Japan have multi-lingual websites targeted at Japan as well as other foreign countries. So, I always keep looking for techniques which can help to rank well in different local search engines. Recently, I came across a software which claims to improve rankings in Google and other search engines […]

Google is harder to manipulate compared to other search engines because of various filters it incorporates in its algorithm to prevent spam. Minus 30 penalty is one such filter for handling spam in Google algorithm.
So, what is this minus 30 penalty? If your site was previously ranking high in Google search results, and […]

SEO alone can not help in making an internet based business successful. Though there are many successful internet millionaires, most web-based businesses fail. Here are some proven tips for building and growing an internet based business.
1. Target a unique niche
If you are creative enough, you can virtually sell anything on the internet. […]

Search Engines like Google and Yahoo have become intelligent in the past 4-5 years. It is very difficult to game search engines nowadays by manipulating tags and keyword stuffing. For a new site it may take 6 to 9 months to achieve competitive rankings at Google. From SEO point of view, I […]

Downside of Linkbaiting

As social media websites like Digg are becoming popular and influential, more and more SEO companies are using ‘linkbaiting’ to get attention on these sites. Digg is the most popular of these social media websites. If a story makes to the top page of Digg, apart from the direct traffic, it can generate […]

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