SEO Tips and Articles

Ranking well after the Google Apocalyptic Algorightm updates

April 23, 2013 SEO Tips and Articles

Long time no write, but back now with what is hopefully a short post. After doing this kind of blogging for a while, my Skype is full of people who NEVER just disappear from their online venues but always keep attacking the algos, trying to rank their sites and their clients’ sites, so I’m grateful [...]

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EMD Penalties and the Google Link disavow tool

October 22, 2012 SEO Tips and Articles

So yes recently there have been several “new” algorithm updates affecting some sites, and although I hate to be the type of person/writer/blogger to add more chatter to your RSS feeds or bookmarked pages, I figured I’d chime in a little bit on both sides of the equation. First off is the EMD penalty, which [...]

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Ghosts of Search Past, Present and Future

September 7, 2012 SEO Tips and Articles

Stupid name for a post, but the gist of this post is merely to outline some thoughts I have in my head and best way for me to get them “out there” is to write them out, and why waste space on my hard drive when I can waste your time publishing braindumps eh? What’s [...]

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SEO Service Review Case Study

July 8, 2012 SEO Tips and Articles

In a recent post SEO Services Reviewed, I mentioned that I was going to start doing some SEO Service reviews, and here’s the first installment of the first SEO service review/case study. Some background information for this case study/review 4 items: #1 of 4-  If this service is recommended, I will get affiliate credit for [...]

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Penguins, Pandas, & Algos, Oh My!

May 8, 2012 SEO Tips and Articles

Recovering from a Panda or Penguin attack (something more prevalent in the online realm than offline realm): I’m not going to tell you anything about recovering from a Panda or Penguin update that hasn’t already been written, but some people (up to 27 fans/readers now) want to hear it straight from the horse’s a**, err…. [...]

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Automated Wiki Links Service >> Getting Wiki with It!

May 7, 2012 SEO Tips and Articles

Wikis are now THE “trust rank”  building backlink type to get, according to all the Special Offers I’ve been pointed to by readers.  Most people are offering services that include wiki links and social links as part of their overall guaranteed rankings increases packages. However, what makes wikis so special now is because they’re an [...]

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Price doubles on May 1st for Marketer’s Relief

April 28, 2012 SEO Tips and Articles

If you’ve been wondering why I’ve been so quiet during the recent maelstrom of Google Panda updates, it’s because I’ve been busy with the new Marketer’s Relief membership site. If anyone has read this blog for any period of time, then you should be well aware of the fact that the site exists and what [...]

New Direction for LinkVanareviews.com

April 10, 2012 SEO Tips and Articles

I’ve been doing the whole link building services review thing for a while now, and it’s gotten to the point whereby there’s more services I recommend you do NOT use than I recommend that you DO use.  I/we can’t ignore history, what has been happening repeatedly in the past, will almost assuredly repeat itself in [...]

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Quick updates on some stuff

March 21, 2012 SEO Tips and Articles

I’ve been knocked on my butt with a torn something-or-other in my knee, and I’m missing out on all the “fun” with latest algorithm updates, and the conversation and what-not… So I will try to keep this brief, seeing as how I can’t concentrate for very long due to the pain/these pain meds. I will [...]

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Vince’ s Webmaster Services

March 16, 2012 Guest Blogging

Hi, I’m writing this as an endorsement for Vince, the guy who saves my butt time and time again when I have techie stuff I can’t handle, or scripts to install, or graphics put together properly, or wordpress themes and plugins fixed, or….well the list goes on and on for  me, unfortunately. But….Fortunately for you [...]

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Merry Christmas Y’all + What’s working now

December 22, 2011 SEO Tips and Articles

Merry Christmas if you celebrate the Day And Season. Happy holiday if you celebrate other days. I know us wanna-be pro-bloggers are almost obligated to send these types of greetings out but I’m not really into writing for sake of writing, but I DO wish you well, not just on Christmas but on every day. [...]

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Rank your websites using smarter link building methods

September 23, 2011 SEO Tips and Articles

Something some people don’t realize about their websites is that their market research and their keyword research were wrong from the get-go, and that they might be going after the wrong keywords with their sites. Sometimes a web”master” will go after hard to rank for generic keywords versus low competition, highly profitable money keywords and [...]

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Back from the dead!

September 7, 2011 SEO Tips and Articles

I’m writing this post because I’m getting more and more comments about my lack of posting here. Apologies to all 5 of my readers for not posting anything recently. Here’s the dealio on what’s happening with me and what’s in store for future site direction, and updates. PERSONAL… I lost 50 pounds training for the [...]

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So, is content king (again)? Results are in

May 16, 2011 SEO Tips and Articles

I alluded to this concept in a previous post on whether on not you should build backlinks to Exact Match Domains and it’s part of some ongoing tests I’ve been doing. Unique content is good and GOOD unique content is better, but not by much except for when it comes to visitor experience and reading [...]

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Should you build backlinks to EMDs (Exact Match domains)

April 20, 2011 SEO Tips and Articles

The following EMD + good content – backlinks case study is something I alluded to in a previous post as a current ongoing test. One thing I wanted to test out was if a site could rank well (page 1) based on the strength of the domain being keyword-rich. Some scaredy-seo-cats read all sorts of [...]

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Please donate to Kids with Cancer charity

March 10, 2011 SEO Tips and Articles

Post-race update:  Thank you all so much for your donations.  WE raised closed to 5700 dollars, some donations and matches are still pending.  I finished in 4:07:15 for those who want to know race times. I know, I know, as soon as someone wants something from you and is blatantly open about it, it’s quite [...]

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Why LSI for rankings needs to be a gamed thing…

March 9, 2011 SEO Tips and Articles

I have been doing some tests to see if LSI (using associative keywords in content) will rank content on its own…without backlinks In a nutshell, LSI means doing super-on-page-optimization by ascertaining what keywords are most related to the topic you’re writing about (let’s call this the Base KW), then incorporating those related keywords and phrases [...]

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The Latest Google Algo Update (Farmer) and The Future of Article Spinning , Musa from ArticleRanks speaks!

February 26, 2011 SEO Tips and Articles

This article was provided, unsolicited, by Musa from Article Ranks, which is STILL currently a recommended solution for getting backlinks to your sites. Begin article: So, Google has officially released a statement that they have launched a new algorithm targeting content farms and un original content sites. We have had a lot of people contacting [...]

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Some things being tested now

February 20, 2011 SEO Tips and Articles

I’ve decided that doing link building service reviews is all well and good, but sometimes a test gets skewed when the SEO landscape itself changes, or if a test doesn’t/didn’t take into consideration the history of a site itself, and an entity with a unique relationship with the search engines. By the way, I’ve usually [...]

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The Micro Mini site business model, is it dead or just harder?

February 16, 2011 SEO Tips and Articles

Warning: This may be a bit of a long and rambling post here because I’m not really sure what I intend to write, but some of this may interest you.. About 1 month ago, I had a 300/day Adsense thing going, and on the day AFTER I reached 300/day, about 80% of my sites got [...]

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