It’s official! Google has just released their latest update of the Penguin algorithm – Penguin 2.0 (official). We’ve been sitting on the edge of our seats over the past few months not knowing what to expect. But so far things have been looking good for us as our site has seen increased rankings across the board. …
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The Google Webmaster Central Blog released an interesting new post a few weeks ago highlighting the most common rel=canonical mistakes they’ve seen. Find out what they are after the jump.
It’s hard to talk about search engine optimisation without the issue of PageRank coming up. Some specialists consider it to be the be all and all of SEO and track it religiously. The team here at CLOUDROCK belongs to the other camp – it’s nice to know but not something we’re overly worried about. However, …
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Quite often, we get inquiries that end with ‘What are your SEO prices?’ or ‘Can you please send us a SEO quotation?’ Of course, that’s a reasonable request (most of our clients are used to asking for quotations from their vendors first, after all), and there are SEO companies who offer cookie-cutter solutions and instant, …
Baidu is the most popular search engine in China. Over 70% of the 500 million Internet users use it for search. With its command over such a large market, it’s small wonder that most businesses with interests in China are curious about Baidu SEO. Let’s have a quick look at how Baidu SEO can be …
Meta tags provide high level data about what web page is about. Essentially, they are data about data and are located in the head section of the page. These meta tags are hidden from regular human visitors of your website. The meta keywords tag is one of those meta tags, and is supposed to provide …
Marketing online these days pretty much means you need to know how to understand how search works in order to draw traffic to your website. But let’s face it, really understanding how search engines work is a tedious, complex and long process and we’re sure you have enough on your plate as it is. Enter …
If you’ve ever dealt with SEO specialists, then you have definitely heard the terms Panda and Penguin bandied about. These refer to major Google updates that have drastically impacted the SEO industry as a whole. It might get a little confusing at times, so we’ve decided to write about the difference between Google Panda and …
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A Seattle-based Internet marketing agency, Portent, has released a report that gives us an interesting insight on Google’s Penguin update. It indicates that Google is becoming increasingly stricter when it comes to manipulative links.
So you’ve gone out and gotten yourself an SEO Company to get some love from Google. Great! But did you hear the one about JC Penney and how their SEO company’s black hat SEO tactics got them penalized by Google?