Have you ever just gotten started on Twitter and several tweets later you think, “This should have been a blog post?” Yeah. Me too. Presenting my Google helpful content update tweets, now in blog format. Writers and Google Helpful Content Update Google has a new “helpful content” update coming out. The goal, according to Google, … Read more
One of the keys to making money by writing online is to get enough traffic to your money making websites. Ranking highly in search engines for frequently searched terms is one way to accomplish this. While Google updates the algorithm that chooses how to rank websites on their search engine results pages (SERPs) on a … Read more
Whether your are new to writing online to make money, or you have been using your online writing skills for profit for a long time, you probably have put some thought into keyword research. Keyword research is the act of looking at various keywords and key phrases to determine if they will be profitable, or … Read more
Interesting post over at the PotPieGirl today. In watching several keywords, she noticed that one of the highly ranked webpages for the very competitive term “make money online” is an EMPTY WEBPAGE! This has apparently been going on for some time, now as well. As it turns out, it used to be the website of … Read more
I use Google Alerts as one of the ways to keep track of when and where my content, on my blogs or elsewhere, gets indexed, or otherwise shows up around the web. For example, I have alerts for both makemoneywritingonline.com and “make money writing online.” The idea is that whenever something I write here gets … Read more
These days it seems like everyone online is trying to track you. The big names like Facebook and Google grab all the attention, but the reality is that almost every company online is interested in where you have been and where you are going. This tracking can interfere with online research where results are “personalized” … Read more
I’ve put some additional effort into tracking some of the various keywords that I write about for some of my clients. One of the new tools I’m using shows Bing rankings in addition to the more traditional Google rankings. What I’ve noticed can only be considered anecdotal at this point, and has only been observed … Read more
Continued from first page How Content Mills Beat Google. The most well-known Google ranking signal is the number of incoming web links pointing at a webpage. A webpage with 500 incoming links is considered “better” than one with 20 incoming links. While those other ranking signals may have some impact where pages have link counts … Read more
There has been a lot of news lately about how spam-filled Google’s search results pages have become over the last few years. One of the oft blamed culprits are the so-called content mills. A content mill is essentially a website that cranks out high volumes of webpages in order to always have something ranking highly … Read more
What happened to WonderWheel on Google search? For those of you webmasters and bloggers who like using Google’s WonderWheel tool, there was an unexpected surprise that came with the new Google Instant search rollout. It seems that Google thinks that the functionality of Wonder Wheel is handled by the ever changing search results and suggestions … Read more
For all of it’s talk, sometimes it seems that Google does very little to stop the continuous rise of webspam and SEO tricks aimed at drawing in the unaware user to a webpage filled with advertising (or worse). However, recently, Google has finally taken a concrete step in the direction of improving the average user’s … Read more
A lot of information floating around the search engine optimization world is either old news. A lot of the so-called accepted wisdom is based on flimsy, or even non-existent, research. And, much of the search ranking conventional wisdom repeated, again, and again, on websites and blogs isn’t actually relevant to the most common scenarios. So, … Read more