article thumbnail

Search Engine Optimization: Search Engine Ranking Problem Solved for a Reader

Bill Hartzer

Perhaps in response to one of my recent blog posts about search engine ranking problems , I got an email today from James who owns a website called 4insure dot net. He asked me if I would take a look at his web site and see if I can figure out why he is having search engine ranking problems. getting penalized for incoming links.

article thumbnail

Link Spamming Is Not Good SEO

Small Business Mavericks

There is a type of blogging that is still popular and that may soon find itself on the outs with Google, if it hasn’t already. It’s a type of blogging centered around building anchor text link spam posing as search engine optimization. This type of blogging was popular in 2005. Neither of those is true.

SEO 98
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Search Engine Optimization Horror Story Contest Launched

Bill Hartzer

Do we really need another Search Engine Optimization (SEO) contest ? This Search Engine Optimization is different. They’re looking for Search Engine Optimization Horror Stories, extreme examples of cases where Search Engine Optimization efforts have failed. Who are the judges? Barry Schwartz, SE Roundtable.

article thumbnail

Why Every Brand Should Have a YouTube Channel

Socialized

Companies and brands create video content wherever you look, distribute it on its blogs and social media. YouTube is the second most popular social media site in the world and is only exceeded by Facebook, ever since it was introduced in 2005. You may also repurpose your blog and other outlets to your name.

YouTube 100
article thumbnail

Five Actionable Social Media Tips for Your Web Development Business

Webbiquity SMM

The more content you generate , the more social sharing you do, which creates a consistent online presence and drives traffic to your search-optimized pages, improving your search engine rankings and traffic. 5. David Gutierrez started his career as a web designer in 2005. In 2012 he founded a creative design agency.

article thumbnail

Should You Disable Comments on Your Blog?

ProBlogger

When you started out blogging, you were probably thrilled when you got a comment. But if you’ve been blogging for a long time, and your blog gets a lot of traffic, those comments may be starting to become less of a delight and more of a chore. You could have written another blog post in that time. What about your blog?

article thumbnail

Evolving on Facebook From Then to Now

Ari Herzog

Reviewing my Facebook history from Day One (which you can learn how to download yourself ), I’ll guess I joined the social networking site in the spring of 2005 shortly after I gained an.edu email address in graduate school. Facts from my Facebook past… August 30, 2005: I wrote a message to someone for the first time.

Facebook 102