Category: #1 SEO Tip Working Right Now

eMail Scams First Page of Google

Do you get these email scams. Promising to get you on the first Page of Google? They usually come from offshore. We get them every day, numerous times a day. Beware anytime anyone says they will get you on page one of Google! You have to earn Google’s blessing – Do it the right way – read my book!

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Is Your site Mobile Friendly ?? Better be by May of this Year

Is your site mobile friendly yet??

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Klemen Kloboves from Google said “beginning in May, we’ll start rolling out an update to mobile search results that increases the effect of the ranking signal to help our users find even more pages that are relevant and mobile-friendly.”

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/03/continuing-to-make-web-more-mobile.html

The Closest We’ll Get to the Google Rules – Rater Guidelines

Google Discloses Their Rules with the Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines

In November of 2015, Google quietly made available a PDF downloadable document called Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines. Folks, this is the closest thing we have ever had to a step by step guideline to what Google thinks is important.

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Google even offers a scale for it’s raters to use:

google quality rater scale

 

We are proud to say that not only do these guidelines validate what we wrote in Greg’s first book in 2008, but our latest book here aligns with Google’s philosophy here as well!

Click here for Google’s Philosophy and you will see #1 is “Focus on the user and all else will follow”

Greg Has Always Stressed White Hat SEO and…

“Provide good content that your visitors will enjoy enough to stick around, share with their friends – and come back for more.”

Below are some points that emphasise this – taken straight from Google itself:

Best SEO Tip Today

Our #1 SEO Tip

WordPress… The are a few exceptions, but for the vast majority of small to medium sized businesses, a WordPress website is hands down the easiest way to implement all of the techniques in this book. It forms a foundation and gives you a fantastic head start to implement the tips we are sharing with you between these pages. In fact we dedicated a whole chapter to it! Beg borrow or steal (well, don’t steal) but get your website converted to the WordPress platform and dedicate one of you pages as the blog page as fast as you can! See Chapter 8 Google Loves Blogs

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Top 5 SEO Tips Working Right Now

  1. WordPress… The are a few exceptions, but for the vast majority of small to medium sized businesses, a WordPress website is hands down the easiest way to implement all of the techniques in this book. It forms a foundation and gives you a fantastic head start to implement the tips we are sharing with you between these pages. In fact we dedicated a whole chapter to it! Beg borrow or steal (well, don’t steal) but get your website converted to the WordPress platform and dedicate one of you pages as the blog page as fast as you can! See Chapter 8 Google Loves Blogs
  2. Title Tag… Review Your Home page Title Tag. We’ll bet it has your name in it. Or maybe worse, it’s called “Home Page”. This is the # 1 place to put your keywords, DO NOT WASTE THIS VALUABLE SPACE ON YOUR NAME – NEW CUSTOMERS DON”T KNOW YOUR NAME – THEREFORE, NO ONE IS SEARCHING FOR YOUR NAME… And if you want local business, put your City as the very first word. (first words rank highest) See Chapters 2 and 7
  3. Facebook… Grab your Facebook business page now! Start posting at least once a week. Two or three awesome posts sharing your industry knowledge and “GIVE FIRST” See Chapter 10 Facebook… Google is Watching
  4. Google Images… You can win much easier in competitive categories by optimizing your images for high ranking in the Google Image Search Engine – See Chapter 3 Be Found on Image Search
  5. YouTube…  Just like Google Image Search, you can win much easier in this space for competitive industries. Why? Because most of your competitors are too lazy to do this. Plus, Google owns it! See Chapter 4 Be Found on YouTube