Google’s Matt Cutts and former ex-Googlers talk spam, rankings, and SEO tips. Google has safer results than Bing, Yandex, and Blekko. GM likes Facebook ads again.

Posted by Jacob Klein There comes a moment in every webmaster’s career when the proverbial planets seem to align. A moment when the standard cavalcade of “what ifs,” “yes, buts,” and “if/thens” that claw at the soul of any self-aware web marketer are, however briefly, appeased

The same activities that were responsible for ascending to number one in the SERPs were also responsible for your manual penalty. So now what

While I don’t believe much in dwelling on failures and mistakes, I do believe we can learn from them.  Often other people can learn from your failures as well. By sharing these experiences we keep history from repeating itself.  Every year I like to take a look back at my blogging efforts and examine what Author information Srinivas Rao Srinivas Rao is the host and cofounder of BlogcastFM where he’s interviewed over 300 bloggers, authors, and entrepreneurs. Pick up his free guide on How to Repurpose Content for Profit and Fame .

Let’s say a potential buyer visited your site but somehow the deal bounced without a purchase or filling inquiry form. How will you induce that visitor to convert into a buyer?

Earlier this month, Google pushed out a new design for the Google Places dashboard, which is only available to U.S. businesses right now. The issue is, if you are an SEO that helps businesses get listed on Google Maps…

Google likes to index content, but many think Google only wants content that is the best – the rest, well, they don’t want to waste space in their index. That is really not true. Google loves to index content…

Google announced yesterday that they added a new feature for Google Accounts, where the user can define what happens to their account after they die.

Google dropped a few percentage points while Bing and Yahoo each gained a couple … but the bigger statistic from comScore’s monthly U.S. search rankings for March is that desktop search activity reached an all-time high.