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How to optimize your site with recent Penguin and Panda update

Bloggergeeze — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:32:13 +0000

Noticed a great changes on your search traffic, rankings and forms of advertising that some direct advertisers quoted on your site? These significant changes could be the results of Google’s recent Penguin and Panda Update. Now if you’re looking for on how you can optimize your site against these Google updates, the first step, you need to know the reasons for penalization somehow like a reputationdefender. Learn more after the break.

Reasons for penalization

Irrelevant links to blogs
Low quality, spam, less information to blogs
Other Client’s foot prints which lead to Penalization
High Outbound links to blog
Building Bulk back link in a short while leads to optimization

Now that you know the possible reasons why you have been penalized that will surely-directly hit your search traffic and rankings you should consider on moving on the following considered white-hat optimizations.

Put your links on highly related and dedicated article that you can submit as guest or paid post to other related themed websites.
When doing link exchanges, even if the the sites you’re partnering with is same-themed with your site, try to limit the link to be ‘frontpage- or hompage- ONLY. In this way, the non-related posts will not be linked on your site when you’re linking sitewide.
Limit the outbound linking or as much as possible try to put nofollow attributes.
Do optimization naturally that coincide with your domain age, number of posts -such getting the right PR in appropriate time frame.

Here are the current Google updates for you to check out, and for the meantime if you know any ways to optimize through this update, we’re willing to hear your thoughts on the comment line.

Recent Google Search Algorithm updates:

Panda 3.5 April 24,2012 – After the update of panda 3.4 in March 23, 2012, Google has once again rolled out a new search algorithm. The Searchmetrics released winners/losers list. The winners gained visibility whereas the losers lost their visibility in Google.The Searchmetrics listed the following as the reason for hit: a) Sites using databases to aggregate information b) Press portals and aggregators c) Heavily-templated websites.With this update, many of the social sites got increase in its visibility in Google. We are proud to be a part of the winners list which Google has sorted out.

Panda 3.4 Mar 23, 2012 – by means of ‘Twitter’ it announces this update and maybe it aims to kill the low quality websites…. Our service strongly, will help the client’s website by building good blogs with deep optimization of all pages and will care more in giving good ‘naturally enhanced’ contents.

Panda 3.3 Feb 27, 2012 – Link evaluation methods are switched to newer kinds and older methods are turned off, to make the clear understanding of the websites and its links. Along with it, Panda gives importance to local search results for more precise data…. What our service does is, enhance the blogs by perfect links that are less in number per post but very powerful. For later thing, we do enable the plug-in to add GEO Tag in our all niche blogs for considering by all search engines especially for Google. Moreover we try to give more importance to freshness in contents that is very helpful to relevant searches.

Panda 3.2 January 18, 2012 – Only a small refresh and no changes in algorithms…. Some websites are affected by this data refresh and not our client’s. we does its work very safer in the manner of surviving against Panda’s slapping. In truth, our clients feel happy after this update because most of the websites of ours go to hit more search results than before. We also have been done our blogs very clear without acquiring any errors (we monitoring the blogs routinely and it happens after every drip feed).

Easy Music Blogging with SoundCloud

Bloggergeeze — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:41:59 +0000

Music has a life of its own that attracts people to it. If it hasn’t, the world wouldn’t have placed bands and music artists in a pedestal, pouring millions of money on their heads for their compositions and music tracks. And bloggers breathe more life to these audio tracks when they write about them. It is easy to describe how a person feels after hearing a beautiful sound, especially when it touches him. However, if bloggers hope to share it to their readers, who might understand the meaning behind the song, words are not enough. They need to let the readers experience the same emotions and sentiments by listening to the music themselves.

How will they be able to do that? Embed audio tracks to a blog. That is the main recourse. But what will keep them at a standstill is choosing the best type of music sharing website that allows embeds. SoundCloud is the primary choice of most bloggers. Why SoundCloud?

Active and creative community

An audio sharing platform with a community of its own will help you increase readership and subscribers. Once they recognize your appreciation to music, they will always look forward to your next pick. And because they are all a creative bunch, for sure suggestions will overflow. If you have an account and know how to get SoundCloud followers, music artists will no doubt flock to you hoping for exposure.

Original and untapped music

The great thing about blogging SoundCloud music is its fresh and original sound. You will be the first one to ever write a review about it, which will give you the privilege to be quoted by others.

Diverse sound tracks

Just like the mainstream music industry, SoundCloud has a diverse selection of music tracks from hip-hop, ballad, to electric. Whatever type of music you are into, you can definitely find it on SoundCloud. Everyone knows that words show the degree of passion you have on something, especially with regards to music.

Get feedback from creators

Another advantage is the possibility of the musician using your blog post to help market his music online, such as on Facebook or Twitter. Even when these social sites have enabled a SoundCloud app, it’s different when the praise comes out of the mouth of another.

Get picked by The Hype Machine

Two years ago, SoundCloud partnered with The Hype Machine, to allow music labels and artists service music bloggers. Through this partnership, bloggers can now promote their favorite music artists on SoundCloud easily. Having a lot of subscribers and SoundCloud followers might lead you to be handpicked by The Hype Machine, as they are known to aggregate music blogs all over the web.

Do your readers and subscribers a favor and give them the most exciting and fresh music there is on the web. Discover the next big thing in the music industry through SoundCloud.

Google shut down about 800,000 advertisers and blocked over 130 million ads

Bloggergeeze — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:05:16 +0000

The internet-mobile OS giant Google have just announced they have shut down about 800,000 advertisers and blocked over 130 million ads from showing up on their network to iron out rogue advertisers making the system safe, much of showing how the company manage ad safety and their constant battle with bad ads and advertisers.

Here are the processes Google implemented:

(1) They monitor ad and landing page content to detect scams, malware and such.

(2) Manual reviews of ads after being flagged by an algorithm

(3) User generated spam reports

Here is the transcript, for those who can’t watch the video:

0:05 Hi, I’m David Baker. I’m the head of ads policy engineering at Google.
0:10 We have a vested interest in creating the least intrusive and best ad experience for
0:15 our users. That means showing you the right ads when you want them, and doing our best
0:20 to never show you ads that can be harmful. That’s why our ads engineering efforts are
0:24 so focussed on protecting the user.
0:27 This is a very difficult challenge given the number of ads online, and there are a lot
0:32 of malicious players. We’ve dedicated tens of millions of dollars and hundreds of engineers
0:37 and policy experts to building systems and tools to detect violations of our policies.
0:43 And when we find a scam, we don’t just ban one ad, we ban the advertiser from ever working
0:49 with Google again. In 2011 out of the billions of ads that were submitted to us, we shut
0:55 down about 800,000 advertisers and more than 130 million ads for violating our policies.
1:01 But how do we find them?
1:03 Our first defense is automated systems that proactively catch scams by monitoring the
1:08 content of each ad and scanning the advertiser’s website before the ad is ever shown. When
1:13 we detect a threat, our systems automatically seeks out and find similar websites and scams,
1:19 immediately broadening our reach.
1:21 And quite often, our experts personally review complex or suspicious ads that our software
1:27 has flagged, but which needed a real person to make a decision.
1:31 Advertisers, users and other authorities can report scams directly to our policy department,
1:36 and we’ll respond as quickly as possible.
1:39 We’re committed to developing the best experience for our users and remain committed to earning
1:44 your invaluable trust.

Source: Google via SERoundtable

The Social Networking Bill of Rights [Infographic]

Bloggergeeze — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:12:40 +0000

As our life become more and more digitally integrated in the internet whereas with almost share everything in different social networking sites. The results employers and colleges have started to request access to online personal profiles to learn more about us. The big question, should the normal human rights of privacy we have offline should be apply online?

Today it only takes few key hits on the keyboard and Google will tell everything it knows about you. For business people this was very crucial as the internet could make or break his/her career. The information such achievements, awards, news articles, and the like can be easily retrieved but when these credentials are no way to be found on the internet it will take considerable punch on the candidate’s credibility. However, when Google finds the right information about the candidate, whether on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin or articles from credible websites, those same people will see you as legitimate and authoritative for their business needs.

Accordingly, you might think that’s the privacy offline couldn’t be level to online privacy and it’s a matter of personal branding. “The Internet has leveled the playing field for self-promotion, drastically reducing the cost of getting noticed. So your online appearance should be the foundation of any personal branding efforts. But a professional presence is more than a single website — it’s a network of strategically placed, search-engine friendly content built on personalized Web domains, specifically crafted to increase your professional visibility, influence and opportunities”

Source: Online Background Check Resource

How to Speed Up Your Site

Bloggergeeze — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:20:33 +0000

When we’re talking about site speed the aesthetics boils down to the page load and its capability to withstand sudden traffic spike from incoming linking from highly trafficked sites such reddit or your post get sourced to a post of Engadget. The page load is even more crucial as mighty Google is using site speed as a signal in its search algorithm even Yahoo! and a small deviation on a normal 3-second rule can kill your conversion rate. In the process, slow-loading page can turn away visitors or even they could never come back again. So here are five effective ways to tune your site’s speed making your visitors and search-engine robot happy in the process.

1.) Use a Cache Plugins

If you’re running WordPress it’s good to know that there are handy cache-plugins that will keep your site up when it got hit by enormous seasonal traffic. We recommend WP Super Cache for beginner as it’s less complicated and technical, then the other one that helps me bring techgeeze.com‘s page load to 1.23-second –the highly integrated W3 Total Cache where it also feature Minify for HTML, CSS and JS. You can go and tweak each plugins settings to suit your needs. I’ve tried using Pingdom tools to benchmark the pageload and I got great improvements afterwards.

2.) Use a CDN(Content Delivery Network)

A CDN can run laps around your server, speeding your media content to your visitors. You can check out Amazon or CacheFly content delivery network as significant options. Some CDN use cloud technology to bring your resources close to your visitors’ geo-region.

3.) Use highly used and rated plugins

Plugins can make or break site’s speed, I remember one on techgeeze.com that brought the site’s speed to insane 24-secondpage load and after my investigation the cause was only a single plugin. It’s better if you do research before adding a new toolbar, social widget or WP plugins. Look whether it’s highly used or recommended by other webmaster through its ratings and download count.

4.) Check out Yahoo!’s Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Website

I know if you’re a webmaster for quite sometime now, you’ve already read these 35 great tips for ensuring high availability under all traffic circumstances.

5.) Utilize Cloudflare

Try Cloudflare which uses the cloud to do a bunch of optimization that improves the performance of your site and protection. Your site’s is entitled with speed enhancements of a CDN, code optimization for reduced server load and latency, and security protection that squashes spam and protects you against malicious attacks.

The Social Media Demographics

Bloggergeeze — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:11:22 +0000

Did you know that 66-percent of adult internet users are connected to one or more popular social media platforms. This social media trend has been increasing for the passed 10-years constantly, where users tend to compensate on these social media connections mostly for their business or personal intentions. To give you a brief statistics behind each of the most popular social media platforms you can find the demographics after the break, ultimately this will give you the right idea on targeting the right viewers or followers for your campaign.

Source: Online MBA Resource

Social Media: A Blogger’s X Factor

Bloggergeeze — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:25:44 +0000

Contrary to one’s belief, being a blogger is actually hard work. How so? In a digital age, an individual can’t help but be overwhelmed by so much data and information on the net. Some people choose to stop and take notice of, while some people just choose to snub posts entirely. There’s always constant competition for the public’s attention and oftentimes, it’s hard to arrive at the desired results. In effect, it’s all about managing one’s expectations and the reality of things in the world of blogging. As of date, blogging has become the latest alternative as a means of income for some lucky individuals.

In this day, ‘nobodies’ can immediately be catapulted as instant celebrities all within a month’s time or even less. As a tip for aspiring bloggers, manage your expectations wisely from your supporters. Many bloggers choose to improve their chances by getting as much interaction from social media as possible. These wise bloggers have found ways on how to get more Followers on Twitter, Facebook, and other social sites to improve their chances on developing their online presence. Some may think that these steps are unnecessary and tedious, but aspiring bloggers will come to find that these are the only ways to survive in this competitive digital age, unless you have a Virtual Assistant.

Most bloggers often than not, choose to maintain more than one social network to actively participate in. Not one, not two, not just three. By posting fresh and interesting aspects on their lives, social networks spread their news far and wide around the globe. The popular choice for most bloggers is Twitter, to constantly interact with their supporters, fans and endorse their products. By slowly attaining celebrity stardom from blogging, this should not be the signal to stop, instead, use this growing status to your advantage by as means on how to get more Followers on Twitter, Facebook and other popularity from other social sites to become even greater than before.

So that’s pretty much the tip. Whether you are a blogger whose niche is in fashion, technology, sports, or all of it entirely, social media is definitely plays as the ‘X factor’ that determines a blogger’s success in the future. So for all aspiring bloggers out there, make sure you don’t discount this factor to your formula for instant success!

How to improve website’s SEO and Page-load speed

Bloggergeeze — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:01:22 +0000

Looking to expand your business through internet? Then developing a website is mere a start of the journey. You got to bring it to the eyes of the masses, to your potential customers. The site must have a high rank in search engines and when visited it should be loaded in no time.

Below are few points which will guide you how to achieve these two criteria:

For a site to obtain a better rank:

1. Backlinks- Search engines today mainly focus on link popularity, that is; the site gets a good rank if it has links to popular sites. Further, if you link back to them it can be very effective, which is also called two-way linking system. But the links should not be totally random; it should be within the field you are working in.

2. Avoid duplication- Filling your site with duplicate content can work as a negative point for you, search engines tend to look for fresh content to deliver to their visitors, every time. The ranking of the sites fall significantly which contains plagiarized work.

3. Content is the king- Quality and volume of content will drive your rank. If you have average quality content and cover more or less the same information what dozens of other sites do, you will not attract many links which in turn drops down your rank.

4. Accessibility- Make sure the site is friendly to search engine spiders. To rank well in search engines your site’s content should be in HTML text form. Images, Flash files, Java and other nontext content are virtually invisible to search engine’s crawlers.

5. Meta tags- Nowadays Google generally do not rely on Meta keywords but search engines such as Yahoo and Bing consider this. You can use them as often search engines use Meta keywords as a description to a page; a well written Meta tag has significant results on the number of clicks. But do not spend much time on it.

Speed optimization

Plug-ins – Adding too much plug-ins or gadgets can take down the loading speed of your site. Sort out the important one’s that will increase your productivity and avoid the rest.

Large images- A picture speak a thousand words but placing large image may decreases your loading speed as well, instead of it place thumbnails of them. And avoid images representing words in the content.

Efficient coding- New website platforms like WordPress have clean and efficient coding, which search engines use to navigate the websites. But if you are hosting a web site on your own make sure the coding on the site are clean and crisp before it goes up on net.

Switch to less crowded servers- If you have designed your website for heavy traffic, make sure you pick your servers correctly because that would hold the key. Though you can opt for shared servers if the site is small.

If you have an online business, you should be looking ways to develop traffic from search engines. Setting this as the benchmark, your next step should be to cover up the above mentioned points to optimize your website for better rank and speed.

About the author: Alia Haley is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on technology and autos. Beside this she is fond of cars. Recently an article on Dirt Bike Tires attracted her attention. These days she is busy in writing an article on Car Fridge.

Make Money Blogging Through LinkVehicle

melaimercado — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:53:03 +0000

One of the major goals of webmasters is having a good search engine ranking. To reach that goal, they ensured that they have quality content and social media presence but one of the highest chances in getting a good ranking is to join SEO Advertising Companies.

There are lots of SEO Advertising companies in the virtual world which offers good revenues and offer big help in increasing SEO Ranking and one of these is Link Vehicle. Just like other companies, they connect advertisers with top notch publishers. They also provide static HTML links to the advertisers from the publisher marketplace.

There are three different opportunities on Link Vehicle, being an Advertiser, a Publisher and a Blogger. As an Advertiser, you can choose from the two types of static HTML links that they offer. First is the traditional text-link-ads that are placed on the side bar or template of the publisher websites. Text-Links are sold on a flat monthly rate rather than pay per click or impressions.

The second one is the blog reviews wherein advertisers were allowed to request written reviews from bloggers for their website with links that targets specific keywords on their website. Blog Reviews are a onetime payment for a permanent link.

Publishers can sell Text-links on their website either on the sidebar or templates. An ad needs to be approved by publishers before they can place it on their websites. They will be notified every time an ad is purchased. How to earn money? Link Vehicle gives 50% share of the net revenue of ads placed on their site. But please be aware that there will be times wherein a publisher can get a lower share than expected due to discounts given by the company to some advertisers. Also, they offer lower revenue compared to Google Adsense which give as much as 68% share on the net revenue.

Link Vehicle is also open for bloggers who wants to write reviews for advertisers. They just need to sign up as blogger and send their websites on Link Vehicle marketplace. A notification will be received by bloggers for available reviews from advertisers. Of course there are requirements but in case a blogger doesn’t like the advertiser’s requirements, they can simply reject the job. How to earn money? A blogger can give a price that they want to receive or the company will set a recommended price. There will be a one time payment for every post and is calculated daily. Payments will be received on the 1st of every month.

So for webmasters who are interested to earn an additional income from the web and wants to increase their search engine ranking, you can visit and add Link Vehicle to your list.

Go Daddy lost 21,054 domains in wake of SOPA PR

Bloggergeeze — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:02:38 +0000

Once more Godaddy is in the verge of getting most of its customers away as it announced that it’ll be supporting SOPA. Though the ompany had reversed its decision to support SOPA that trigger 21,054 domains be transferred away from GoDaddy on Friday last Dec. 24th alone. Taking in the numbers the company have lost $147,167, not to mention future renewals along with other services the customer into account.

The stats from DailyChanges show that the transfers away from Go Daddy have been increasing all week. Here are the number of domains moving away from Go Daddy this week alone:

Monday (8,800)
Tuesday (13,000)
Wednesday (14,500)
Thursday (15,000)
Friday (21,054)

It’ll be going a tough ride for GoDaddy to win back its customers and right now that’s why I’m seeing sale of .com domains from the registrant for only $5.99, now this will be something to win new customers.