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What Is Going On With Google Panda

Terry — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:59:55 +0000

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What Is Going On With Google Panda Updates?

Google has become the major player in the search pages used by the majority of the Western world. This has placed it in a significant position of power and changes lately make you wonder if that power is beginning to be missused, intentionally or otherwse. Since the first Panda updates back in the Spring websites have been hit left right and center. In many cases these are decent websites that desreve to appear in a decnt ranked position in the search results but good sites have been almost wiped out by the changes Google has made.

It is hard to see what the benefits are. There are many reports of scraped and copied content appearing in a much higher ranked position than the original authors content. It makes no sense.

The search engiines claim to always be looking for the most rellevent results for their customers and, I guess, for other reasons sometimes the copied content looks better to them. With a few additional keywords sprinkled around the page like fairy dust a copied article may seem to be a better result to the search engine bots. It is totally unfair on the original author though and arguably providing a less impressive website for the search engine user to visit.

Many people would claim that the whole debacle of the Panda updates has been a disaster for Google, for their customers and for the website owners who put a lot of effort into producing decent articles and information for their website visitors.

Hubpages is an example of a good site that has thousands of users who publish articles on the website and in exchange get a percentage of any advertising payments. There are a large number of excellent authors providing very good quality content. There are thousands of well researched and well written articles that any visitor would be delighted to discover and read.

The first Panda update decimated the traffic to the hubpages website. The further updates, and there have been several, have done little to help Googles users find the good quality sites that exist on Hubpages website. The reverse is true.

The owners of the Hubpages website have taken all sorts of steps to try to clean out any poor quality hubs. They have stopped people linking to anything that might be seen as poor quality site. The restricted sites include such established players as clickbank presumably due to the large numbers of make money today schemes offered there alongside the good quality ebooks, videos and CDs.

A recent move to using subdomains on Hubpages appeared to have turned things around but in the last week or so many of the good quality hubpages have disappeared from the search engine results. Who knows what the reason is this time. It may be that since the subdomains have all suddenly appeared Google have sandboxed them for a few months thinking their sudden appearanc is suspicious.

Who knows what is going on in the great google mind in the sky. Whatever their intentions when they introduced the Panda updates it seems that the effects have been a disaster for their search results and for thousands, and perhaps millions, of enthusiastic authors of webpages and articles all over the world.

It is depressing to find that putting the effort in to writing good quality articles is wasted. Google does not appear to want quality. Their robotic analysis appears to favor junk over quality. It is so disheartening to find that thanks to a damn computer the common sense decisions of what is good or not has been turned on its head. No longer is quality a good thing. Rubbish is now better just so long as it has the features that the google robots are looking for. It could be complete jibberish but that would not seem to matter in the eyes of Google.

None of us knows for sure what it is that causes Google to rate one page higher than another. It may be that the pages with videos from Youtube get a better ranking because Google owns youtube. It could be the number of keywords or the variety of similar keywords. Perhaps it is down to the percentage of keywords compared to the number of words on a page. We simply don't know but in my opinion, at the moment, Google is not doing a very good job for their customers. Maybe having poor search engine results means they get more adwords clicks on the search pages.

There are businesses that provided a perfectly good service for their visitors who have been decimated by these changes and many decent poeple are suffering thanks to Google and its whims. Such irresponsibility is to be expected. Google is a private company. They have no duty the the world other than their shareholders and it may be the changes have been very profitable but it has made the internet a less useful place for the users and has made producing good quality content a waste of time for website owners and authors. Let us hope that for the good of the internet Google changes their direction and begins to put quality first before we all disappear in a swamp of poor quality webpages that the intoduction of Adsense started.

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Find A Good Niche With The Niche Reaper Member Site

Terry — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:53:49 +0000

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There are some fundamental ways to develop your blog to get the most traffic and have a lot of success but one of the most important steps is to decide on what niche should I target and what niche will make lots of money. A new release of a niche finding membership site called Niche Reaper could be exactly what you need to help you achieve the success you deserve.

Finding niches has always been a bit of a hit and miss affair. You come up with an idea and then research keywords that you think are appropriate for the niche. You study and analyze and maybe set up a website without ever really knowing how much money you can make with the niche you discovered. You set up the site and hope for the best. You could be wasting hours and hours of your time on a website that will never achieve much because the niche is not a worthwhile one to target.

Now we have a software tool that can tell you what niches look promising right from the start. The software is running constantly 24 hours every day searching out profitable niches and trending topics.

All you have to do is decide which niches appeal to you and which ones you want to target. The software tells you if the domain name which matches the niche is available. It tells you the traffic and users in the niche. It tells you the keywords that are worth going after.

With this tool in your web develomnebt armoury you have every chance of achieving that success you have been searching for. It saves you the most valuable of things, time. It allows you to devote your efforts to the money making side of the business instead of doing all the research by hand.

Finding niche keywords has always been a bit of a black art. A mixture of science, guesswork and black magic. Niche Reaper can take the guesswork out of the equation and save you immence amounts of time to help you make faster and more successful progress in developing your online business.

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Get Traffic By Finding The Keywords Web Users Are Looking For

Terry — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:32:25 +0000

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Before the internet appeared on the scene keywords would probably have been thought of as the important words in a speech or article but now keywords have a similar but far more important role.

When we talk about keywords we are talking about the words and phrases that people use that are specific to what they are looking for or what you are writing about on your blog or website. In this article the word "KEYWORDS" itself is the important keyword but keywords can mean a phase of 3,4 or even more words. It describes a word or words that people type in to a search engine search box and it is the word or words that you try to include in your web page title, heading and article so the search engines know what your page is about and, hopefully, they decide to rate your page well for that keyword and put you near the top of the search results when people search for that phrase.

The only problem is that we have no idea what people are searching for. You might think an article about 'trimming poodle toenails' will prove very popular but the reality may be that nobody, and I mean nobody, is searching for that particular phrase. The result will be that having slaved over your keyboard to produce a great article about that subject, nobody ever visits your web page. We need to know what people are looking for BEFORE we start writing that superb article for our website.

For some time now it has been possible to make use of the Google Keyword Tool to give you a lot of ideas but it has something of a reputation for inaccuracy when it comes to the numbers and it is limited in how many results it supplies you with. It is a whole lot better than nothing but we need something better to know what popular and more obscure search terms people really use.

Now the search engines care about this too. They want to make life easier for people using their search engines so they provide hints on what you might be searching for. When you start typing a search phrase on the main search engine pages it will pop up a list of things you might be searching for. These are lists of pages that people typed in before so we know these are popular search terms. If only we could capture all that valuable information.

In the past there wasn't a way to do this but now we can with a tool released by the highly regarded Jonathon Ledger who has a reputation fro producing top quality and reliable software tools to help webmasters achieve greater success. This product is being released on the 21st June 2010 but you can only buy this tool over a 5 day period after that it will be withdrawn from sale so don't hang about on this one. If you are reading this after it has closed I can only apologize.

There is an excellent video explaining exactly how you can use this software to find hundreds of keywords and keyword phrases that people are searching for on the internet and even if you have no interest in buying you will find it useful to watch and learn a little more about keywords and why they matter. Check it out here.. Keyword Snatcher

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Should You Use WordPress For Your Website?

Terry — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:39:24 +0000

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Just about everyone online tells us that we should all be using wordpress because it is quick and easy to use and also because Google loves it. I am a big fan of WordPress myself and I use it for many different blogs. This site is a wordpress blog and I have no plans to change that anytime soon. But... my experience recently makes me wonder if wordpress is always the right choice.

I have a website in a pretty competitive market. I purchased the site a couple of years ago and it has been sitting around the number 5 position for searches for it's main keyword pretty much ever since. I never did anything to promote or develop that website. Maybe I added a couple of backlinks but literally just a dozen or two. It was a plain and fairly ugly html website and all I ever did was to change a couple of the affiliate links. I am not even sure if I changed all of them, that's how little work I did to the site.

Earlier this year I decided I should spend some time and completely revamp the site and I decided to put it on a wordpress blog. I spent several days setting up the blog and transferring all the articles over to the new blog. This was a month or so ago and I recently checked my Google results. What did I find? The website that has been consistently in the top ten search results for the last two years has all but disappeared from the first page. Before the change there were a few dozen keywords showing up on the first page for searches there now appears to be only one and that is at position number ten!

So what are we to make of this? I am disappointed. As far as I am concerned I have improved the site. The articles are almost identical to the original html versions but the site looks better and I have added more pages, information and offers. WordPress blogs have more code to make up the page than a simple html website with various links and menus and I wonder if this has reduced the value G sees in the site which, if true, would suggest that a simple site with less code is more effective in the eyes of the big G searchbot.

This is something I need to investigate further but right now I am regretting transferring the site over to WordPress. I had planned to work through many of my sites and change them over to WP but now I think that might be unwise. Maybe I should have tried it out first with a less successful site as this is obviously costing me money in lost revenues now but I do like WordPress with it's ease of use and appearance so I will persevere for now and hope that this is a temporary setback but the lesson must surely be this. Just because lots of people tell you WP is the best thing since sliced bread don't assume that is always the case. As always, test and test again to establish what works best for you and your websites.

I have this theory, as yet unproven. The easier it is to do something the less it is rated by Google. So, easy to get backlinks would be of less value than hard to get backlinks. Easy to build website, i.e. wordpress blog, less value than html sites. You would think that what is basically the same site would be rated basically the same by the search engines but apparently not so something has been downgraded and it would appear to be the platform used to produce the site.

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Don’t You Love It When You Are Number One In Google?

Terry — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:00:21 +0000

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You may struggle to write posts every day, you may even write several posts every day in the hope that you get to number one in google but if you are targeting the wrong keywords you are probably wasting your time. Pick the right keywords and publish interesting and good quality content that attracts visitors and backlinks and you have cracked it and you will be able to boast to your Internet searching followers, "Don't you love it when you are number one in google?"

Finding the right keywords can make the difference between being number one and number one thousand in the search engines results. The phrase, don't you love it when you are number one in google, has no exact matches, though hopefully it will have this one now.

How many searches do you suppose there are for that phase? Why would anybody type that into a search? So this may prove to be a totally pointless post from the point of view of search engine results but it demonstrates the point that you must research the keywords you are attempting to rank for if you want to get any traffic.

I could comment on blogs, write articles and promote this post until I'm blue in the face but it won't do me a lot of good from a search engine results point of view. It might intrigue a few webmasters who would wonder why on earth anyone would bother trying to rank such a phrase but no normal person is going to search for that phrase.

Take the time to do keyword research before you waste your time working on content for your website that will do nothing except allow you to be able to say to your friends you got to the number one position in the search results. Don't you just love it when you are number one in google? No, not unless it is for something that people are searching for because being number 1 doesn't make you money. Getting real visitors who are looking for what you offer is what makes the effort worthwhile.

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Understanding Keywords And How To Use Key Words On Your Website

Terry — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:30:17 +0000

You will often come across the term keywords and there are websites that will sell you lists of keywords or a membership that offers monthly keyword lists, just like the one the click-able image above is taken from, but what are keywords and why would you pay for words when you can find any number of words in a dictionary?

The important difference between the words you use every day and keywords is that we are on the internet and that is very different to real life. If you imagine going into a library or a bookshop and asking for a book on ships the assistant might show you books on sailing, powerboats, paddle steamers and ocean liners.

If you go to a search engine and search for ships you will get a list of websites that mention the KEYWORD "ships". You will not get "sailing vessels" or "paddle steamer" unless they are referred to as "Ships" on the websites. Search engines try very hard to return the results you are looking for but thy are very specific. This is why careful choice of the keywords you use is essential for you to achieve success for your website.

A keyword is a specific term or phrase but there will be many similar words and phrases that a visitor to your website might be use to describe what they are interested in reading about. You should try to use lots of words that are very relevant to your subject throughout your website and within any articles you submit to article directories as this will enable the search engine searchbots to find those terms which in turn will help the search engines refer visitors to your website for all these related keyword terms.

There are various ways of finding keywords but it can be extremely time consuming checking for keywords and then trying to work out how many searches are carried out each day or month. One of the simplest ways I know to cut down on the time it takes is to get someone else to do it for you. You can simply purchase lists of thoroughly researched keywords. Yes I am about to suggest you consider spending some money but you don't have to do this. You can do the research yourself but I think you will find the price for the time you save is very good value.

You can join Unselfish Keywords for just $12 per month and each and every month you will be able to download 20 valuable lists of targeted lists of around 200 proven keywords that have been collected from real searches...what real people are searching for Right Now...

You can spend a lot of time working on your website trying to get visitors to see your pages and buy your products or click on your Ads but if you are focusing on the wrong keywords you are unlikely to get visitors who are searching for other popular keyword searches.

I suggest you take a look at the unselfish keywords offer and read it very carefully. Keywords are very important to help you get traffic to your website so try to understand what people are looking for and the keywords you should be using.

Finally, you may be wondering if I use these lists myself or if I am just trying to sell you something here. Yes, I would earn a small commission if you sign up but I am a member and I do use these monthly lists myself too. You may be interested to know I have used a couple of keywords from this months huge selection within this article.

Understanding keywords is important and you will probably struggle to achieve very much until you understand their importance. So, if you do nothing else, at least click on the link or the image above and read the page there to find out a little about keywords, what the offer includes and how it might just help you achieve success with your website(s).

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Why Should A Search Engine Put Your Page First?

Terry — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:30:20 +0000

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There are some important points to understand about search engines and how they work. What is it that puts one page at the top of the search results for a particular keyword or phrase while another page sits in position 1000. None of us knows the whole answer to this but we can make some educated guesses.

First we should be aware that it is the PAGE that is put at the top of the search engine results not the website. While it no doubts helps the whole site if it has a popular and successful page the ranking the search engines give is for the page and for the links and references to it from around the web. Some results you see on the search engine pages do seem odd and may make you wonder if there is any point in publishing an interesting webpage full of content that will be of interest to your readers but the majority are interesting and relevant pages of content.

Some people take the view that they do not want anything too interesting because they want their website visitors to click an advert and leave the site. We all want to get an income from having our visitors arrive but if you encourage them to leave straight away you may get a small initial financial benefit but they are unlikely to return to your site if it did nothing for them other then point them to an advert.

They used to say content is king and that you should make pages for your visitors not for the search engines. Both of these sayings remain true but you do need to make allowances for the search engines and try to help them appreciate the value of your page.

META tags are said to be dead but it does no harm to include them. Including your preferred keywords in your text should help the search engines understand the main purpose of your web page and getting lots of backlinks from decent websites will help a lot. How many links do you need? The more the merrier but it does depend on your keywords. If there are millions of pages using the same keywords you are likely to have to get thousands of links to achieve any success at all.

When you put a page of content on your website you should have some sort of an idea what it is for. Is it to help your readers do or understand something or is it simply to satisfy your own ego. Either approach is ok but the first is likely to generate more visitors and have better positioning in the search engine results.

If your visitors appreciate what you have written they are more likely to read other pages on your website and return again in the future. They will increasingly trust what you say and may respond when you reccommend a particular product purchase because they know you are not just selling something for the sake of it.

People do not, in general, like being sold to. The best salesman is not the one who shoves a product in your face and says buy this. The best salesman is your prospective customer who visits your site, likes what they read and sees that you are offering genuine help and support for what they want to achieve.

When people and search engines trust your website you will achieve better results and have happier customers who will return again and again and recommend your site to their friends and colleagues. You will then have a website that can continue working for you and benefiting your customers for years.

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Tools To Help Get Backlinks

Terry — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:02:21 +0000

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We have discused how important backlinks are to getting traffic to your website. Without backlinks your site is likely going to sit gathering dust and barely ever see a visitor.

You may get traffic through search engines butunless you have plenty of backlinks pointing to your site they may not even find your site and if they do it may not get much of a ranking in the search engine results.

Backlinks are crucial and together with good content you should see the numbers of visors rise over time if you get regular backlinks posted linking in to your site.

So, how do we get all these backlinks?

With a bit of luck you will get a few visitors who decide to link back to your website and once your site becomes more well known amongst its interest group you should see visitor numbers begin to rise but to start out and help your site grow over time you can do a lot worse than work on getting more backlinks yourself.

You can do this manually by adding comments to blogs and forums where they allow you to have a signiture line pointing back to your website. You can also spend a lot of time logging on to various 2.0 social networking sites and leaving your links around. It is time consuming but it works.

Or, you can use some software that will assist you in this task. One of the best I have tried, especially for the small cost each month, is TrafficBug which allows you to add a comprehensive description of your site together with your preferred keywords and titles and it proceeds to register your website with social network sites, website directories and RSS feed aggregator sites.

If you are serious about developing a website that gets noticed and gets visitors traffic bug is a wensite I believe will help you achieve more success from your website by helping to boost the numbers of visitors arriving at your site.

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