SEO 101

What is SEO and What is Not SEO? David Harry from the SEO Training Dojo discusses a very heated Facebook group thread where this very topic came up for debate. They discuss how certain fields like social media, PR, webdesign and even linkbuilding arenot SEO thought might individually affect SEO in some way. Related articles across the web Matt Cutts On What SEOs Can Expect From Google Coming Up Go...

WTF, rel=dofollow links? Red Flags for Google?  SEO’s Sued for Violating Google Guidelines; More than two Links on a page … Google takes the 1st one. Google Penalized eBay But Was It Panda 4 Or A Manual Action? Bing is Shutting Down its Webmaster Forums; Google: Dropping Links In Forums Can Hurt Your Both Algorithmically and Manually; Google: Panda 4.0 Brings in ‘Softer Side,’ Lays Groundwork For...

Ross takes us some steps onHow to Obtain Links to Your Website Through Outreach and Link Attraction. Ross takes us thr0ugh several variables fromchoosinga photo from another persons collection in an article to generating social love from themtochallenginganarticle written by an authority in your industry with your own strong and valid opinion. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Pr...

From  Getting clients to know their sites: perform an audit and having them  Review their social signals/effectiveness, Ross and John discuss How to Determine Why Your Competitors are Succeeding and You’re Not Related articles across the web Duplicate Meta Descriptions; Merchant Quality Chatters Spurns Google Zebra Rumor Ethics and Google; Contracts with Vendors, Impacting Rankings in Hours How to...

Ethics and Google;Contracts with Vendors; Trying to sneak in Links asJohn recounts his experience from this week plus another patent this week confirms that Citation act as Links. Plus,Click thru test .... Impacting Rankings in the short term in a matter of hours. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Matt Cutts Lobbying To Reward Secure Sites With Better Rankings;Google: 410s Are Immediate and 404s Are Delayed For 24 Hours;Google secures keyword referral data for PPC outside of AdWords;Paid Platforms will still work;Google Glass is now Kosher for Passover     Related articles across the web Google Glass Now Kosher For Passover Matt Cutts Goes to Washington Anglo Rank: Another Private Link Netw...

Google On IE8 Drops SSL and Passes Full Referrer; Matt Cutts: Almost All Penalties Are For Quality Violationswhen askedwhat percentage of penalties/filters are based on violations of Googles Quality Guidelines versus technology issues or bugs on the webmaster side? Related articles across the web Anglo Rank: Another Private Link Network Foiled By The Cutts; Duplicate Meta Descriptions How to Setup...

Bing updates their Webmaster Guidelines, adding that if you use keyword stuffing, it can lead to demotion or even the delisting of your website. Also, Google quietly updates their Google Places Quality Guidelines for naming your business   Related articles across the web Bing Webmaster Guidelines Updated To Include Demotions For Keyword Stuffing Google Navigation Changes To Webmaster Tools; Google...

Matt Cutts goes after guest blogging: myblogguest.com, discusses how Google looks without backlinks as a ranking factor and asksWhat should sites do with pages for products that are no longer available? Plus, Google now has a smaller, wearable version of Android on the way built-in with Google Now, some revealing info from a hangout on air with Nick Kellet of List. Ly, including howin WordPress us...

Chef Dennis Littleygives his insights into blogging and Google Plus. Dennis manages theG+ Food Bloggers Community in part 2 of this hour-long interview. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Chef Dennis Littleygives his insights into blogging and Google Plus. Dennis manages theG+ Food Bloggers Community. You can check out A Culinary Journey with Chef Dennis at his website Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Guest Blogging: Stick a fork in it - its done;Expedia Lost 25 Percent Of Their Search Visibility In Google Possibly Over Unnatural Links;Google slams paid ads - shows stats in an infographic?! Ross also discusses plans for marketing and how you should never under-budget.     Related articles across the web Matt Cutts: "Stick A Fork In It, Guest Blogging Is Done" Expedia Lost 25% Of Their S...

Bing Begins Supporting SSL Search Query Data Does Not Pass [Not Provided];6 Major Google Changes Reveal the Future of SEO;Google Apologizes For Berlin Street Being Renamed "Adolf Hitler Platz" On Google Maps;Official: Google's Latest Official Stance On Links Within Widgets; WhyThe Internet of Things just got real with Googles 3.2 billion dollar Nest buy Related articles across the web...

Google Reveals Top Searches of 2013: From Nelson Mandela to Twerking ;Google’s Matt Cutts On Search Spammers and how 25-30 percentOf The Web's Content Is Duplicate Content and Thats Okay; Google Still Working On Promoting Subject-Specific Authorities In Search Results. Ross and John also answer listener questions on writing content  non-geographic specific to attract links or focus more on get...

Talking Website Bans, Funneling Traffic and a Listener Site Review as Ross talks about diagnosing website bans, funneling traffic and finding the best ways to judge if your site requires a new navigation, plus Ross goes over a couple of site reviews Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Another Private Link network foiled by the Cutts as Googles head of search spam, Matt Cutts, just confirmed on Twitter that Google has targeted another private link network namedAnglo Rank. Plus,Different quality guidelines when results may be important for both your money and your life. Also,Matt Cutts talks this week about Duplicate Meta Descriptions: is essence, it is better to have none at all...

Matt Cutts discusses duplicate Meta Descriptions , that in essence, it is better to have none at all than duplicated. Plusmerchant quality talks lead to the rumor of a Google Zebra update. Also, Ross and Scott answer a listener question regarding available resources thatwalk a client through what to expect in the SEO process, what it'll be like, what they need to do and understand, and how to...

Image Mismatch: The Latest Google Webmaster Tools Manual Action Penalty, plus Ross and John answer listener questions on Google Authorship,Custom Google+ URLs, linkbuilding, the Google Disavow tool and more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Points from Matt Cutts PubCon Keynote Speeches included Black Hat Hacking will be a core topic Googles web spam team will focus on. They hope to go after the hard core hacking tactics and reduce that impact on the search results. Child pornography will be blocked significantly in all countries, not just the US. Toolbar PageRank may or may not be fixed. The pipeline to export the quarterly data bro...

Responsive Design Does Not Equal Ranking Boost; Google To Patent Physical Likes: Tied to Glass; John gives his thoughts on rel=next for ecommerce product lists; Google Launches Media Tools For Reporters and Journalists; HeathCare.gov SEO issues and Google Authorship. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Google Hummingbird Recap: Designed for faster results, semantic search...more focused on user intent rather than search terms, gives more reason to write naturally, and be less keyword driven. Google Penguin 2.1 Turned More People into Google Haters; Structured Data Provides Impressive Click Gains; Bing shows us 27 Things that Help and Hurt SEO. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands...

Submitting new sites to Google to crawl is still a good practice? Is it a good practice to apply the canonical tag to custom post types to build up page value of static pages. If an SEO suggests link building for your site, how many is too many? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Calico: Google Answer for Death; Google Panda collateral damage victim speaks of experience and how close he was to suicide. There are other such discussions from the Penguin update. Lesson learned? Diversify your marketing so that Google isnt everything. How should you do that but still keep an online focus? Google is also looking to drop cookies for Ad tracking in favor of a new little-known tec...

Why should I pay for an audit if you are just to tell me what is wrong with my site? That should be free! Google Webmaster Tools Link Update. Google Never sends warnings about web spam There is always action taken. Google Crawling Unlinked URLs to discover new content. A tongue in cheek article on Miley Cyrus and Google Trends. Automated Content is against Google Guidelines. Advertising Inquiries:...

PageRank removed from Google Toolbar; Matt Cutts tweeted he is trying to come up with Ghost related puns for a SPAM network; Moz Web Developers SEO Cheatsheet 2.0. Also, Ross answers a listener question on whether Does it hurt my SEO rankings to not host my website on a web server in the country I am targeting? He also refreshes on common asked issues like disavow, canonical and consolidating site...