Most bloggers would be aware of google’s dislike of paid posts – more importantly, paid links in paid posts. If the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) gets its way, paid posts as such will be illegal.

The FTC is looking at plans to update its policies and their sights are set fairly and squarely on bloggers, paid [...]

Yesterday I looked at some of the issues that may help you rank better in Google. Today I will follow up on a few more observations. These are all taken from a Q&A session with Matt Cutts and others from Google – in effect, Google are starting to spill the beans on how to gain [...]

Whether you love them or hate them, Google is the number one search engine and they are not about to change the way they do things because you or I like or dislike the way they do things. Over the last few months Google have opened up a little more on ways to improve your [...]

Google PageRanks are about to be updated. For change, rather than people seeing strange movements in their toolbars rankings and wondering, ‘what the heck’, Google, or at least Matt Cutts, have decided to make the announcement ahead of time.
The announcement was short and sweet:
Hey folks, I wanted to let you know that new toolbar PageRank [...]

If you are an Adsense publisher then you need to take care in your quest for increased visitor numbers. Some visitors may actually be costing you money, and I am talking about a sizable percentage.
Your income per click may come down to as low as 0.05c per click ‘across all of your Adsense sites’ when [...]

Duplicate content is a problem that affects every blog and you may be being penalised without being aware of it. This WordPress plugin will help to remove some of those duplicate content problems.
Do you place your posts in more than one category? If so, Google is reading your post more than once. In fact, place [...]

Do you ever refer to Google Trends to see what is hot on the search engines.  At present, Hidden Kingdom and Eve Of Destruction are running hot. Other search

terms that are running hot include Incredible Hulk trailer, lil wayne lollipop lyrics and longyearbyen. Hula is also one of the top search terms at present.

So what [...]

Google Ranks all Pages
PR – Page Rank. Google’s method of ranking all the web pages on the internet. Notice I said pages, not sites. Google actually rates each page. For bloggers, sometimes you will see that your home page has a PR of 3 but one of your pages has a 4. You quickly flip [...]