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SEO NEWS: Did you get OOPsed?

April 28th, 2012

Now that the Google OOP (Over Optimization Penalty) has hit everyone that it will, at least so far as existing content goes, SEOs have had a little bit of a chance to get an idea of how it is working. The immediate results seem to indicate that the penalty is fairly severe. Some returns have [...]

 
 
 

SEO NEWS: Google Announces Penalty for Over Optimization

March 24th, 2012

Google has made another major announcement concerning their algorithm, and does it ever have the SEO world on edge! This new proclamation states that pages which are overly optimized will be penalized. To most people in the SEO world, over optimizing a page is another way of saying a page has been keyword stuffed. If [...]

 
 
 

SEO NEWS: Google Penalizes Ad Heavy Sites

February 7th, 2012

Websites with massive banner ads in the top half of the page are being affected by Google’s ‘page layout algorithm,’ which is designed to penalize pages with too many ads above the fold, meaning the amount of the page that is visible before scrolling down. Websites that do not have much visible content above the [...]

 
 
 

New Google Penalty?

June 7th, 2009

Once again, the tales of a dreaded Google penalty are making the rounds – this time a whopping 50 spot drop in rankings has been observed, which anomaly in Google’s results could indeed indicate a new Google penalty. Several webmasters have reported that their websites lost top positions on Google and have plummeted to position [...]

 
 
 

Google Cracks Down on Blog Reviews

October 30th, 2008

Blog reviews have been a time honored way to get a little free advertising and some links back to your site. While paying outright for links is black hat, and paying for blog reviews is considered grey, giving out a gift to bloggers was deemed all right until this past week. A large online company [...]

 
 
 
 
 

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