How to report link spam

For those of you did not catch the latest post by Matt Cutts, Google is calling for link spam reports from webmasters that would like to report spammy links. You can report paid links that pass PageRank, blog spammers, guestbook spammers and etc from webmaster tool. Here’s a shortcut link for it: http://goo.gl/linkspam Although Matt Cutts states Google works really hard from Competitor A...

12 Google Search Tips You Must Know

1. Explicit Phrase: Lets say you are looking for content about internet marketing. Instead of just typing internet marketing into the Google search box, you will likely be better off searching explicitly for the phrase. To do this, simply enclose the search phrase within double quotes. Example: “internet marketing” 2. Exclude Words: Lets say you want to search for content about...

Has Google Begun Changing How it Indexes the Web?

Last summer Google announced a new project called “Caffeine”, which was described as a re-write of Google’s web search architecture. Around that time, Matt Cutts discussed Caffeine with WebProNews, comparing it to the “Big Daddy Update” of 2005, which consisted of changes to the way Google crawls and indexes websites. It appears that more people are now seeing the...

Remove Your Site From Google or I’ll Sue

I thought this email is really funny so I decided to share with the rest of you. If it was up to me, I would probably reply as “Go ahead to sue Google for ranking us....

Google Algorithm Elements

Broad Algorithm Elements to Google’s Rankings from SEOmoz 24% Trust/Authority of the Host Domain 22% Link Popularity of the Specific Page 20% Anchor Text of External Links to the Page 15% On-Page Keyword Usage 7% Visitor/Traffic & Click-Through Data 6% Social Graph Metrics 5% Registration & Hosting...