Google rankings decline - caused from parked domains?

Mobile browsing data, research revealed

by Michael Prince
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| Surveys
July 20, 2012

We have recently done research into which mobile phones are used more often in various South African industries. The results varied greatly for each industry as we anticipated. The different industries we chose were: Affordable fashion, Ecommerce, Finance, Tech and classifieds. In the affordable fashion sector Blackberry was the most...
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Google Panda updates for June 2012

by Michael Prince
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| Blog
July 10, 2012

Last month Google came out with two new updates for their Panda algorithm. This is rather uncharacteristic of them as they usually only bring out one update every four to six weeks or so, and in most cases it takes even longer. The first update for the month is Google...
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Link building – If it’s effective, it’s not easy

by Michael Prince
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| Blog, SEO
June 21, 2012

Google and other popular search engines such as Yahoo and Bing have encouraged webmasters to build links in order to do well in the rankings. After the effects of the Google Penguin algorithm and its subsequent updates, it has become painfully clear that people have misinterpreted or have not quite...
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The art of keyword selection in your title tag

by Michael Prince
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| Blog, Google, SEO
June 14, 2012

The idea behind on-site keyword selection is to add words to your page title that will be most effective in attracting your target market. When choosing on-site keywords it is helpful to get into the mindset of the consumer and try to imagine what they would type into Google or...
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Penguin Update 1.1

by Michael Prince
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| Blog, Google, SEO
June 1, 2012

Google has just recently updated their Google Penguin algorithm to version 1.1. Matt Cutts of the Google search quality team made the announcement on the 26th of May on Twitter. According to Cutts the new patch is just data refresh and it will impact less than 0.1% of English searches....
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Quora – Benefits it can have on your Search Engine Optimisation:

by Michael Prince
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| Blog, SEO, Social Media
May 23, 2012

For those of you who don’t know, Quora is a relatively new website established in 2009. I believe that the most accurate definition for the site is: “An online engineering platform that connects the information needs of real people with information solutions provided by real people.”. The site has some...
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Bing and its new social interface

by Michael Prince
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| Industry News, SEO
May 23, 2012

On the 15th of May Bing announced that their new social friendly user interface was available to all users Bing stated that anyone will be able to access the new interface at www.bing.com/new and that users should check out the new message on top of the Bing home page. Bing...
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Project SEO V4.5 is live

by Michael Prince
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| Blog, Project SEO
May 2, 2012

We are happy to announce that Version 4.5 of our software has gone live. Our team has been working towards this release for a couple of weeks now, and we’re really excited about the new features that they’ve been able to get into this deployment. We have been working towards...
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Google Algorithm Panda 3.5 is now live

by Michael Prince
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| Blog
April 30, 2012

Google has recently released its new version of the Google Panda algorithm and they claim it will reduce the amount of spam on the web from tarnishing Google’s search results. Searchmetrics have done an analysis of who has benefited and who has taken a hit from the new algorithm. Some...
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Google rankings decline – caused from parked domains?

by Michael Prince
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| Blog, Google, Industry News, SEO
April 23, 2012

Many individuals and companies have been experiencing sharp drops in their search engine rankings for no apparent reason. Some sites have even been dropped by four or five pages on Google search results. This is not due to the expected “over-optimisation” penalty that Google can impose for excessive spam and...
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