If I have learned anything since I started this blog is to find anything in Google almost momentarily. I can quickly find the source of a quote, the original image or the official documentation for anything. At college they used to say that you don’t need to (and you cannot) know answers to all questions:…
I thought I’d share my *personal* experience with being hit by Google penalty. There’s a growing number of people like me, so I hope that will be helpful *Mind that we are a bit special case study as we are not going to recover (and that’s another story, don’t judge me). But that experience will…
Update 12/2/2022: Google has discontinued this rich snippet support, seemingly due to low adoption Google Authorship has been the most intriguing developments in the search industry for the past couple of years. With exciting predictions like one that Google will identify “subject authorities” or another one that author-verified results will be ranked higher, it’s obvious…
By Don Sturgill Guest Blogging – it’s like candy. You know you want some, but you’re not sure it’s good for you. Once considered the primary way for publishers to get fresh content and writers to get not only a backlink, but their names splattered all over the webosphere … guest blogging has come under…
Past weekend was one of the rare occasions when I didn’t go anywhere with my family and decided to stay at home to get prepared for my presentation at soon-to-come PubCon New Orleans where I am speaking on optimizing your content marketing to Google’s authorship and potential Google AuthorRank update. Hence I had some quality…
A few weeks ago I did a large post on the past five years of history of Google: That was a cool exercise as I got to remind yourself and organize in my mind lots of Google changes I was lucky to witness (I know that sounds like I am very old btw). Now, in…
Content brainstorming is hard. The most obvious question we always face is: Where to start? To me the answer is obvious: Whenever in doubt, go to Google! This article describes my tricks searching Google to find what to blog next. It can be used in any niche (scroll down to the actual cheatsheet with the…
