Category: Seo

Google AdWords

And so the test begins. I sent over a couple screenshots to the Google AdWords team showing that a ton of clicks were staying for only 0 seconds and yet I was being charged for them.  Here is what I got back: Please be assured that our system identifies invalid clicks and filters them so [...]

Google Update & YaBing!

For those of you who have noticed significant fluctuations in your rankings – you’re not alone. Across the web people have reported significant changes in their rankings. We at Beanstalk were fortunate on this one in that we had ranking reports running for the past few days and got to watch the changes over the [...]

Top Authors On Link Building

I just wanted to take a moment to thank all our blog and article subscribers and just our visitors for helping me make the list of most influential writers on link building in a poll over on the Eightfold Logic blog.  Of course, I’ve always tried to educate and hopefully entertain in my works and [...]

How HTML 5 Will Change SEO Forever

Conceived by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), HTML 5 has been the basis of a W3C working group since 2007. The first working draft of the new HTML 5 specification on was released in January 2008. (source: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/ ) As mentioned over at WebConfs.com, on the surface, HTML 5, other than the [...]

Why Google Needs To Stand Up For Themselves

For the past week the Internet world has been abuzz with the Google/Verizon deal and how it will affect Net Neutrality.  For those of you who have heard me speak at conferences or listened to my radio show you’ll know that I’m not the biggest supporter of Net Neutrality legislation.  I tend to take a [...]

Let The Chaos Begin

As of late yesterday afternoon I noticed a few minor hiccups in the Google SERPs.  This morning those hiccups escalated into multi-page jumps, old versions of pages re-entering the index, pages being dropped from the index and different results appearing with a click of the refresh button.  It is far too early to even try [...]

Googe Fonts

Have you ever wanted to use a font on your website and weren’t able to simply because it wasn’t a web-safe font?  Perhaps you wanted a beautiful scrolling heading but knew that doing so would require creating an image heading and really – that’s just not good SEO is it? Last week the solution to [...]

“I’m Insecure”…or…”The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time”

We are all guilty of it at one time; creating an insecure password. There is a myriad of excuses that we make to justify our password infractions (can’t think of one, can’t remember it if it’s too complicated…etc.). With the ever present threats from hackers and from information piracy, we all need to do do [...]

Mayday Mayday

Google’s latest update is known among SEO’s lovingly as the “Mayday update”.   The update ended about a week ago and as with any update, there are winners and there are losers.  We known that the update was algorithmic and not index-based.  Basically, it has to do with the rankings of your site not the pages [...]

Reciprocal Links … again

As they mentioned over on SE Round Table – the discussion regarding reciprocal links has been had hundreds – and maybe even thousands of times.  At least once per week I get asked about them either whether they’re part of what we do or if te person on the phone should do them, etc. etc. [...]

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