Updated 3/1/2021 When creating high-quality content for your website, it makes sense to want to share it in multiple places. Doing so will ensure that more people will see it and engage with it. But how you share your content can make or break your rankings. In this post, we’ll discuss the pitfalls of duplicate…
Combining Copied Content and SEO
In this video Matt Cutt’s from Google responds to the question, “Should you copy random pieces of content and put them together in a larger article for SEO?” This questions is really almost laughable. Watch his response. Combining Copied Content and SEO As you probably heard in the video, copying content from other websites and…
Matt Cutt’s Speaks On How Many Links Should Be On a Page for SEO?
This has been a heavily debated topic for some time now, SEOs almost always have different opinions on how many links there should be on a page for SEO. In this video, Matt Cutt’s from Google tells us. Basically, he says that you can now go over 100 links on a page and that Google’s…
Duplicate Meta Descriptions and SEO: Are Duplicate Meta Descriptions an Issue?
In this short video Matt Cutt’s comments on duplicate meta descriptions and SEO. His thoughts are, either have a unique meta tag description or no meta tag description, but do not have duplicate meta tag descriptions if possible. Duplicate meta descriptions will be flagged in Webmaster Tools, and while they are not necessarily the end…
Why Subject Matter Experts (SME) are Critical to SEO Post Hummingbird
The last year has been a wild ride in search engine optimization. Most new clients who came to us, who have worked with a SEO before, need us to wash their website clean of all the bad, frankly black-hat work, that was done before. We have been helping new clients with past penalties and then…
Hummingbird Update SEO Video
The Hummingbird Update Changed SEO – In this video, John Lincoln, President of SEO and Social Media at Ignite Visibility, covers key changes to SEO as a result of the Hummingbird update. Some of those changes include better answers to questions, less emphasis on dead links, increase importance on social media, schema.org as a ranking…
Google SEO and Internet Marketing Changes from Matt Cutts PubCon 2013
PubCon is an excellent event that attracts Internet marketing experts from across the world. This year, Matt Cutt’s, head of webspam at Google, revealed some exciting news about the future of Google and search engine optimization. Watch Matt Cutt’s at PubCon 2013 Important SEO Points from PubCon 2013 Google is working hard at fighting blackhat…
Schema.org Post Hummingbird Article on Search Engine Land
When you work in SEO, and really any area of Internet marketing, you need to be ahead of the game. Because of this, we spend a lot of time at Ignite Visibility making sure we are creating 100% white hat services which allow our clients to succeed, and will allow them to succeed for as…
What I’ve Learned from Disavowing More Than 100,000 Links
Disavowing links is tedious work. I have been doing quite a bit of it since the Google Disavow Tool launched back in October 2012. I’ve been fortunate to get some sites re-included, but I’ll be honest, it can be hard for sites with nearly a decade of poor links. I have learned a lot by…
A Letter to Google: Please Stop Hurting Small Businesses SEO by Improving Transparency
This is an open letter to Google on behalf of many websites out there who have suffered needlessly. I ask that you share this as much as possible to get the message to Google. Recently, I have been helping many webmasters clean up penalties, deal with malware or disavow poor links to their website. Generally,…