A look at when copying small amounts of text from another site will impact on your search rankings.
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In his latest video Matt Cutts answers the question why larger sites tend to rank higher than smaller sites. It is not due to the number of pages but the number of inbound links.
If you are worried that hidden text on your website might impact on your rankings then here is the answer. It depends upon if it improves the user experience.
Matt Cutts of Google answers the question whether linking multiple domains is a good or bad technique for search engine optimisation.
Is search engine optimisation affected by where you place links to other websites? What is the best way to structure links on your pages?
Is there an SEO penalty for using stock images? Not at the moment say Matt Cutts. Find out why.
Welcome to the Weekly Tech Update with me, Mike Walmsley. It’s a look at everything that has happened in the world of technology, the Internet, Search Engines and social media over the last week. This week I have stories about Apple, Google, the Nexus 4 and did a couple really name their baby “Hashtag”?
When you are producing text for your website you may well want to use synonyms within your text but may also be concerned that search engines, such as Google and Bing, will class this as a form of keyword stuffing and impose a penalty on your site for doing so or not realise that the words have a collective meeting and rank your site lower than if you had used just one word over and over again. In a recent video Matt Cutts has answered this question… well, sort of!
When it comes to the content strategy of your website then you will often hear me saying that being original is what is required. In the last few months this has become very apparent to a lot of website owners who found that their rankings on Google had suffered after the search engine implemented its […]