by Rick Mark | Oct 23, 2014 | SEO
Remember back in the days when commenting on other blogs used to be a legitimate SEO tactic? You could get links back to your website simply by leaving a comment. Of course, this quickly turned very spammy, and to this day, you still see some people (and tons of bots)...
by Rick Mark | Mar 25, 2014 | SEO
Make no mistake about it – 2013 was the year of responsive web design. Instead of creating separate URLs for mobile site as had been customary in recent years, many designers started to use responsive design to create a single version of a website that automatically...
by Rick Mark | Feb 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
For a long time, the basic rule was that you shouldn’t have more than 100 links per page on your website. This used to be the suggestion in Google’s webmaster guidelines. Webmasters used to worry that having more than 100 pages would be viewed as spammy. But times...
by Rick Mark | Feb 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Whenever people talk about SEO, the conversation is often focused on how to climb the search rankings and get the top spots for the keywords being targeted. But the truth is that getting top rankings is only half the battle. The other half is maintaining those...
by Rick Mark | Jan 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
As head of Google’s webspam team, Matt Cutts knows which SEO tactics work and which don’t. He’s particularly vigilant when it comes to pointing out tactics that could be considered spammy or manipulative. Of course, the SEO landscape changes by the day. What can be a...