The new reputation manager: what do people say about you and your company?
What do people say about your company and your products on Twitter, blogs, forums, Facebook and Google+? The new reputation manager in SEOprofiler enables you to keep an eye on discussions about your...
View ArticleGoogle’s Matt Cutts: you can ignore Google’s link warnings
On his Google+ page, Google's Matt Cutts said that you can ignore Google's link warnings: "If you received a message yesterday about unnatural links to your site, don’t panic. In the past, these...
View ArticleHow to improve the credibility of your website
Credibility is an important ranking factor. The more credible a website is, the better it will rank on Google. How do search engines measure the credibility of a website and what can you do to improve...
View ArticleNegative SEO: official Google statements
In a video on YouTube, the head of Google's anti-spam team Matt Cutts talked about negative SEO. Can other companies hurt your website rankings by spamming your site? What can you do to avoid this?...
View ArticleStudy: users trust search engines more than social media for news and...
According to the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer, consumers put as much trust in search engines as they do in traditional media (newspapers, television): "Trust in media breaks down along generational...
View ArticleThree popular cheap SEO services
Many businesses try to cut costs by hiring cheap SEO service providers. Do these SEO companies really offer search engine optimization and does it make sense to use these services? Three popular cheap...
View ArticleAre the tweets about your company positive, negative, or neutral?
Chances are that people are talking about your company and your products on Twitter. Are their comments positive, negative, or neutral? The Social Network Monitor in our web-based Internet marketing...
View ArticleGoogle’s John Mueller: websites with bad links might not pass PageRank
In a recent Google+ hangout, Google's John Mueller said that a website can lose its trust from Google so that it does not pass PageRank value anymore: "With regards to PageRank, I think the main issues...
View ArticleHow link building by metrics can have a negative influence on your rankings
Links are still the most important factor in Google's ranking algorithms. That's why most webmasters focus on building links that point to their web pages. That is a very good idea because it will have...
View ArticleGoogle: is crawl budget optimization necessary for your website?
On Twitter, Google's John Mueller talked about the importance of crawl budgets. Do you have to optimize the crawl budget of your website, or can you ignore this topic? What is the crawl budget? Your...
View ArticleSix steps: how to improve the credibility of your website
Customers will only buy from your website if they trust your business. They decide within a few seconds whether they want to stay or leave your website. Here are six things that you can do to make your...
View ArticleShould Google remove hacked websites from its index?
On Twitter, a webmaster asked whether Google should completely remove websites that it suspects are hacked, or serving malware. Should Google completely remove websites that it suspects are...
View ArticleGoogle’s John Mueller: disavowing bad links can help Google to trust your...
Google's John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on YouTube that disavowing bad links can help Google to trust your other links more: "It's something where our algorithms, when they look at it and...
View ArticleGoogle: you need an expert for YMYL pages
Google's John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout that it should be clear that the content on your web pages is written by an expert if you have a YMYL website. What are YMYL websites? A YMYL (your...
View ArticleBing: how to disavow links
Bing announced on Twitter that you can use their Disavow Links tool to submit page, directory, or domain URLs that may contain links to your site that seem 'unnatural' or appear to be from spam or low...
View ArticleGoogle: if you remove a link from a disavow file, it won’t be disavowed anymore
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that links that have been removed from a disavow file won't be disavowed anymore. That means that they will contribute to your rankings (if Google's hasn't marked...
View ArticleGoogle: trying to lift a penalty by getting a new domain won’t work
On Twitter, Google's John Mueller said that getting a new domain name won't help you to get rid of a manual Google penalty. Just to state the obvious, since the sites are the same, Google will treat...
View ArticleGoogle: buying old domains can be risky
Google's John Mueller said that it can be risky to buy old domains. He said that you can clean up old domains if they have been used by spammers. However, it can take a lot of time. In short, you can...
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