Is Google Giving Your Site RESPECT?

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 by Chris Crum
A lot of people feel that Google is treating them unfairly when it comes to search rankings. If you are one of these people, let me be perfectly blunt. There’s a good chance this is your fault. You have to …

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Google Raters Guide: Ratings Don’t Directly Affect Rankings

Friday, November 11th, 2011 by Chris Crum
Earlier this year, following the initial roll-out of the Panda update, Google’s Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal did an interview with Wired, in which they talked about people they had rating search result quality. Last month, the raters handbook was …

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Google: Page Speed Affects Rankings In 1 Out Of 100 Searches

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 by Chris Crum
With PubCon going on, Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted out a link to what he calls “a special webmaster video for #pubcon”. It’s about how Google determines page speed. Specifically, it’s Matt’s response to a user question: “How does Google determine …

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Google “Freshness” Update Helps A Bunch of News Sites

Monday, November 7th, 2011 by Chris Crum
A few days ago, Google confirmed that it launched a new algorithm update with freshness in mind. The update is built “upon the momentum” of Caffeine, the infrastructure update Google completed last year, designed to index fresher content more quickly. …

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SEO Experts React To Google Algorithm Update

Friday, November 4th, 2011 by John Vinson
I’m not sure what other writers are calling Google’s algorithm update, as we’ve only had it for a day. I’m staying with the KISS (keep it simple stupid) method, and calling it “Google Fresh“. No doubt, SEO experts, webmasters, and …

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