I’m noticing a bit of a trend happening in the blogosphere where people are becoming interested in second tier link building – and some of the top white hat SEO gurus have released posts about it recently. They obviously made some good points but I don’t really feel like they said enough. (more…)

A few weeks ago Matt Cutts came out and basically said Guest Posting is OK as long as the blogger is high quality. Now, a few days ago he’s come out with another webmaster help video and basically let us know that low quality guest posting won’t be tolerated. (more…)

I see a lot of people get penalized or ignored by Google. Obviously, if you put a lot of work into chasing a keyword, it’s really frustrating if you don’t get to where you want to be.I remember when I first started, I did everything right (minus the black hat part which I don’t do anymore) but, I didn’t know about the delay algorithm for un-established sites. (more…)

Today, I was doing some research for an upcoming post and found myself on Google’s search blog. After browsing around for a few minutes, I thought it would be kinda fun to pay attention to the anchor texts that they add to their links. I figured it would be pretty insightful to show some examples of the links behavior in their posts and get a bead on what they clearly view as natural link behavior since Penguin rolled out. (more…)

Bill Slawski of SEO By The Sea just posted about an interesting post about a patent that Google filed a couple of years ago. In the patent, Google describes a system where they trick webmasters that they think may be spamming during their transition from low rank to high rank. Basically, they give the webmaster undesirable results for his efforts and track his responses. If they don’t like his responses, he may end up ranking lower than he originally did. (more…)