Are you a nasty spammer SEO person who hides links and text on your website? I sure hope not… Because Google was just awarded a new patent for their technology which detects hidden text and links on website. So if you are one of those people who thought, “I’ll never get caught.” Think again… So…
Google Recommends pushState for Ajax SEO
For those of you who work in search engine optimization, you probably know that optimizing sites built in Ajax can mean a little extra work. It gets pretty technical and often doesn’t result in great rankings anyway. That being said, I have optimized Ajax sites many times and have of course seen it work fine…
Can you Use a ccTLD in a Geographic Location Outside of That Country
OK, this one sounds really technical, but in all actuality it is not. In this webmaster video Matt Cutts answers the question: If I use a ccTLD, can I indicate my geographic location is not in that country? So what does this mean exactly? It means if you use a domain name like www.example.fr which…
90% of Google Spam Messages are for Blackhat SEO
Have your ever wondered about the various types of spam messages that Google sends out through Webmaster Tools? Well, according to this new video by Matt Cutts there are hundreds of thousands of notifications that are sent out each month. Which for the most part, fall into the categories below. As an added bonus, we…
5 Lesser Known Features in Google Analytics that Rock
We love Google Analytics. But one thing that we have noticed is that some of the amazing features go unnoticed. In this post we talk about 5 lesser known Google Analytics reports that you will love. Real Time Analytics Real Time Analytics is a feature/report in Google analytics that lets you see people who are…
Tips for Google News Sites SEO
Matt Cutt’s Gives Tips for Google News Sites SEO Optimizing for Google news is different than optimizing for the regular Google search space. We at Ignite Visibility have done a ton of Google news search engine optimization and have seen a high-level of success. You can think of the different SEO segments like this. Standard…
Google Offers Way to Get More Followers on Google +, But you Have to Pay
There has always been an option to add a +1 extension to an ad in Google. But now Google is has created a new option that allows Google + pages to get more followers! Did I just see hundreds of SEO’s ears perk up? How to Get more Google + Followers with Ads Google is…
What Makes a High Quality Website for SEO?
Not sure if you heard or not, but Google just rolled out another Panda update today and 1.2% of English queries were impacted. This might not seem like a big deal at first, but if you are one of the website owners on the first couple pages and you go missing, it is. This is…
Is New Method to Track Keyword Ranking using Google Analytics the Answer?
Recently a post was written regarding a new method to track keyword rankings in Google Analytics. According to the author the method works as follows. How This SEO Analytics Tracking Works Here’s the general idea: 1. Someone clicks on an organic search results 2. The user lands on your site 3. A custom piece of…
Do Google Ads Help Organic Results in Search Engine Optimization?
It has long been a myth that if you use Google AdWords you will have better organic results in the search engines. Google has covered the SEO topic do Google ads help organic results many times in the past, but recently an AdWords user asked a new question directly to Matt Cutts, Head of Webspam…