As 2011 comes to a close, there have been a lot of changes to Google’s algorithm which have affected our online rankings and future strategies.  Bloggers now need to focus on building content with smart copy writing and in high volumes to keep up with and ahead of the freshness update.  With this being said, [...]

What is a Ping? A ping is a simple outbound ICMP packet containing URL and website info(title/desc/etc) that is sent out to a server requesting a response. SEOs target specific search engine, blog networks, social media and other servers so they respond and come investigate the URL includes in the ICMP ping request. When you [...]

As we move forward through 2011, we have learned a lot about Google’s most recent algorithm evolution and how search engine optimization has been affected. We know that there is more and more of a focus placed on content, it’s quality and uniqueness is a major factor now.  Since the Panda update, we have found [...]

Backlinks are really the foundation of search engine optimization, and there are really hundreds of different types and sources your website could be getting backlinks from.  Anything from blog comments to profile links, social bookmarks and RSS feeds, web 2.0′s  blah blah blah, you take the time and you’ll build a diversified and complex link [...]

There’s no denying it, social bookmarking is painfully boring. If you’re like me, you probably can’t even count the numerous hours you’ve dedicated to getting backlinks. You could have spent that time being far more productive. Social networking to drive more traffic to your site or writing new content for your site (or possibly just [...]

For a lot of webmasters, especially those of you managing larger companies and e-commerce websites, time is everything. Nothing takes more time than building a quality foundation of backlinks for your domain.  We all know its a long process where you must consider link velocity as a factor, the steady improvement of backlinks is vital [...]

There has been a lot of talk on internet marketing forums about the current state of article marketing. How did the recent algorithm affect it?  Article sites and directories took hard hits on the rankings, most losing 20-40% of their usual organic traffic.  That really was a shock to a lot of search engine optimization [...]

Social bookmarking is one of the most valuable search engine optimization techniques on the web today.  This is especially true since Google’s recent algorithm change which de-valued a lot of blog, profile and other backlink type.  Google has also noted that they are putting more emphasis on social media, which they believe to be the [...]

What is Xrumer? Xrumer is an extremely powerful software system that offers a huge selection of  tools and functions that can be used for search engine optimization.  It can literally build 1000′s of backlinks in hours or even minutes.  Is this all legit? Well, it is a bit of a “black hat” technique.  Meaning that [...]