Recently there has been speculation among professionals in the internet marketing industry that at some point, SEO will cease to work as a traffic generation strategy, and the entire optimization industry will die. The theory behind this is that changing search engine algorithms will eventually render SEO strategies ineffective and useless, as we’ve seen in [...]

The duplicate content “penalty” is one of the biggest myths among site owners, web developers, and even lesser SEO service firms. While true duplicate content may be a concern for some people, most are unnecessarily worried about syndication – a completely different issue. Believing in this supposed penalty can cause otherwise savvy businesspeople to miss [...]

On February 28th of this year thousands of websites across the globe saw a significant decline in their organic rankings for keywords related to their industry. This was attributed to Google’s attack on paid home page links – a direct and serious violation of their Webmaster Guidelines. And then on March 20, the world’s largest [...]

Professional web design services are facing a new competitor in the form of a more web-savvy consumer capable of developing their own website. This is seemingly evidenced by the thousands of different programs and companies that will allow a person to create and publish their own website for free. But as with most things in [...]

If your website was affected by the latest incarnation of the beast known as Google Panda, taking advantage of the SEO tips in this article series can help you to quickly recover your lost status. Part 1 of this series this included thoroughly reviewing Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, and identifying and removing any paid or offensive [...]

Code Garage is a WordPress backup service by Peter Butler. I’ve been using the service for my own projects and websites for over seven months total at this point and a few months ago I began utilizing the service for my clients as well. Code Garage backs up all of your WordPress files and databases [...]