Google Webmaster Central Team comes up with an other useful posting on how to submit your site for reinclusion in care you fear your site banned or penalized by Google. Google has recently been imposing lots of penalties to a site though they are not totally visible to users. If you suspect your site is in someway penalized read this post on how to remove the penalty.

Labels: Google update, penalty

Google recently rewrote their SEO page in Google Webmaster help. Before it used to focus on unethical SEOs now they have a more standard document where they give credit to companies who help Search engines deliver better results and webmasters / site owners develop better websites . According to Google good seos

• Reviewing and providing recommendations on your site content or structure
• Technical advice on website development: for example, hosting, redirects, error pages, use of JavaScript
• Content development
• Managing online business development campaigns
• Keyword research
• SEO training

Well those are good points are most of them are basic stuff handled by any SEO company or SEO consultant. Apart from this good SEOs provide ethical ways to build quality back links. As we know Back links plays a very important factor when it comes to Search Engine Rankings especially in Google. Getting natural links through traditional ways are an important way for top rankings in Google.

1. Write articles which are useful and unique for users. This will help relevancy of the website as well as attract visitors which will result in back links.

2. Provide widgets that are useful and for free which will pay by itself through quality back links.

3. Impress the big authority and GOV sites by providing what they want they will link to your site if you can provide things they want to see and use often.

4. Make your site link worthy by making it as a useful hub for targeted users / customers. Good contents, attractive graphics, tools, forum, blog will all help If you have regular repeated visitors then you have achieved something. Repeated visitors are important since word of mouth referral is important for spreading the word which will result in quality back links.

According to Google some useful questions you can ask a SEO company:

• Can you show me examples of your previous work and share some success stories?
• Do you follow the Google Webmaster Guidelines?
• Do you offer any online marketing services to complement your organic search business?
• What kind of results do you expect to see, and in what time frame?
• What's your experience in my industry?
• How long have you been in business?

I agree with all those questions they are pretty straight forward and covers a lot of things. If a good SEO gives a clear answer for these questions i am sure he can relied upon. I respect Google and will live by their stance on SEO even before this updation i never had anything against their rules. Its their search engine and they set the rules for it. We need to live by it. If we can't and if something wrong happens we need to face consequences. This is how it is and this is how it should be.

Vijay

Labels: Google update, Search Engine Marketing, Spam

Webmaster world members report ranking loss for lot of sites in first week of June. We had some of our client sites shaken but not to the extent discussed in that thread here

www.webmasterworld.com/google/3668739.htm

A member posted the following message which will give a little insight on what is being discussed

"Initially, I thought there were some problems with the geo filtering being screwed up with regards to the UK, but I'm not sure about this statement in isolation. Maybe it's a bug and maybe it's not.
Since it's hard to pinpoint we really need a lot of information to decipher the problem or adjustment that G has put in place . If it is only UK related sites, then my hunch is that this could be rolled out in other regions with more aggressive filtering.
Some things I'd like to know or qualify , especially from the long established members here or folks with long established sites, are things like this :
- is this purely selective - is it only high PR sites and if so what level of PR - is it only UK related sites and does that mean the TLD and/or hosting [ chief suspect is geo filtering issues ] - do these sites have an inbalance of linking techniques e.g. lot's of navigation IBL's , footer IBL's , - do these sites publish frequent content

My observation so far is that it has been
- highly selective in a competitve niche to a minority of sites [ total stability around the site i watch ]
- effected by a combination of factor [ not sure what right now ie one factor in isolation isn't enough to send a site down, more one event combined with another is. This is because I'm observing others using the same techniques which are unaffected ]
-effected by introduction of high PR link/s , leading to - recent upward PR increases [ not visible on toolbar ]which have caused a re assessment of the site's "trust" rank. - it only effects UK TLD's [ need more info on this ] - a further discounting of low value pages bringing the overall PR down - thin affiliate sites or sites with aggregated content been only effected [ not 100% on this - just some sites I'm watching ] - linking stagnation or momentum altered - lack of fresh , original content
Actually, my feeling is that it's nothing new , it's just more aggressive in it's selection of sites
In the case of one site I'm observing, for any phrase or content [ exact match and broad match ] the whole site has been tanked to between -40 to -60 on phrases that should rank. Not one single exception. When it initially disappeared from Google it was completely off the index for 3 days.
This might correspond to recent discussion by Googler John Mu about the - 60 penalty which appears to have been acknowledged , which would seem to be based on a recent change at G. Some folks have reported improvements coming back quickly with a site clean up.
But there's not enough reports to be sure.
My concern is that the recovery could be indefinite and have effected the trust rank of effected sites - and of course communicating with G through WMT leaves webmasters are exposed to hand checks which could expose other inadvertent nasties and one way communication. "

Labels: Google, Google update

Some active members of webmaster world are discussing about a potential penalty to .info domain names. It seems for about 2 weeks Google has been experimenting with .info domain names by removing from search results for a certain period of time to check how much spam it stops in their results.

"This has happened to my .info domain since last night and I am really upset at it.
All my 300 keywords have stopped working in Google but my site still appearing in Google with site:www.example.info and www.example.info searches.
Yesterday I received 600 visitors from Google and today only 4.
My .info domain is one and half years old. Till, Today I regularly update it with unique content and don't promote it much as I am already receiving number of visitors.. I never did spamming or adopted prohibited ways to promote the site.
I do Free directory submissions and very seldom links exchanges.
Can any expert tell me please what why it has happened to my site?
Is it a permanent problem or temporarily.?
I will be thankful for any help and guidance "

Did Google really ban .info domains i doubt it its very difficult for Google to ever attempt something like that. If you check the search for Global registry you can see afilias.info ranking in top 3 this is an indication that .info domain itself is not banned. May be because that domain extension is abused too much Google might have removed some domains.

Labels: Google, Google update

Google has been into ever flux for a long time. Some webmaster world members are discussing a possible update in Google in May. I have seen some changes happen to our sites and client sites so definitely something is cooking up with Google results.

Labels: Google update

Some webmasterworld members have reported slow crawling from Googlebot on their sites. When you check this thread you can see that many have posted data showing slow browsing from Googlebot. From the sites we monitor we don't see much changes to Googlebot crawling some of the sites which are actively updated Googlebot is regular in gobbling up pages. Some sites which are not updated often see a bit lesser browsing other than that things look very normal to me.

I probably feel this could be caused by drop in backlinks to sites or Google devaluing some links. Google is very active in devaluing links recently. I recommend webmasters to keep a check on their backlinks and see if they are devalued.

Labels: Google, Google update

Google recently made an update to their index and matt cutts commented on that here "http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3615693-3-30.htm" . From checking different datacenters I dont see much changes now and the small changes that was visible in the datacenters mentioned in that webmaster world thread is not visible any more.

Most of the changes have reverted back and there are no visible signs of changes that happened on those datacenters propagating to other DCs.

Other cool thing is updates are not the hot topic anymore. People used to discuss 100s of pages for any major updates. When I see this dewey update thread i hardly see it go beyond 30 pages which is a good sign. People are becoming more and more aware of the changes and the communication between search engines and users have improved which has resulted in lesser worries for people.
While Google update mania is no more Pagerank Mania still continues.

False Pagerank update alarm has triggered 10 pages of posting in digital point forums

Labels: Google update, pagerank, pagerank update

I was seriously amazed when we saw Google index our Blog posting in less than an hour and the blog post already started ranking. Infact I posted the blog before around an hour and a half and Google came to our site and indexed it before an hour and now the URL is showing up in search results for the keyword we are targeting.

We recently added a new SEO comics section to our site and I personally blogged about it. Google was super fast in indexing and ranking the page I still cannot believe my eyes Google is truly amazing.

Check this screen shot,



Long live the King Of Search Engines ,

Labels: Google, Google update