Yet another problem with Google’s brand first approach to search: parasitic hosting. The .co.cc subdomain was removed from the Google index due to excessive malware and spam. Since .co.cc wasn’t a brand the spam on the domain was too much. But as Google keeps dialing up the “brand” piece of the algorithm there is a [...]

Yet another problem with Google’s brand first approach to search: parasitic hosting. The .co.cc subdomain was removed from the Google index due to excessive malware and spam. Since .co.cc wasn’t a brand the spam on the domain was too much. But as Google keeps dialing up the “brand” piece of the algorithm there is a [...]

Paid Links Are Spam Buying links is considered spammy by Google because it is a ranking short cut which subverts search relevancy algorithms. And so Google considers it a black hat SEO practice. Links are somewhat hard to scale because (outside of those who create a network of spam) it is time intensive to find [...]

Links are the fabric of the web, both internal and external links are instrumental for moving from both one page to another or from website to website; but the real questions is, how do links impact SEO? Is SEO All About the Links? Internal links communicate prominence and preferred champion pages from orphaned (less important) [...]

About google Serving results When a user enters a query, our machines search the index for matching pages and return the results we believe are the most relevant to the user. Relevancy is determined by over 200 factors, one of which is the PageRank for a given page. PageRank is the measure of the importance [...]

What happened to the search results for SEO today around 1PM CST? I think at this point, only the Google engineers responsible for hitting the “scramble results for kicks button” really know. Glitch? New Algorithm? Amnesia? Who Knows… Let’s back up a bit, as someone who takes pride in producing top rankings for competitive keywords, [...]