Posted by: bhartzer on: October 12, 2011
Did you know that fresh content on your website is great for search engine optimization, leading to better search engine rankings? Not only do your visitors want accurate information, they want fresh content that’s accurate. They want the latest and greatest, the most accurate information that they can get on a subject. Unless they are [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: August 10, 2011
For a period of time yesterday, Ripoffreport.com was removed from Google, totally de-indexed. None of their pages were in the Google search results. They were not banned, though. We can learn from this, and I examined whether or not removing yourself from Google hurts your search engine rankings. Does Removing Your Website from Google Hurt [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: May 13, 2011
Every month I typically report the search engine market share and show each search engine’s market share as reported by comScore. Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in April with 65.4 percent market share, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 15.9 percent (up 0.2 percentage points) and Microsoft Sites with 14.1 percent (up [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: February 16, 2011
If you are doing search engine optimization for your web site, you might want to read my recent review of a search engine optimization tool called SEOette that will help you track your Google rankings. With SEOette, you can track your Google rankings, backlinks, and other important SEO factors. Not only can you see current [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: December 16, 2010
Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it on my blog. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. The search engine rankings, which really is the search engine market share of the [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: October 22, 2010
In an interesting or funny blog post today on Aaron Wall’s SEOBook.com, Aaron Wall asks whether or not Google is actually recommending that you try paid links. If you look at the screen capture, there is an example of a search for the keyword phrase Matt Cutts. In this case, Google’s automated system is actually [...]