SEO

After a whole lot of anticipation, Google’s Caffeine update is finally live and serving up a fresher and more comprehensive index for every search.

It seems like someone is always talking about the end of SEO or claiming the practice is dead & useless. They couldn’t be more wrong…

Yahoo and Bing are stepping up their presence in search volume, and Google’s update might not be the best way to win back those lost surfers. Then again, with the hottest new smart phone and rumors of a Google tablet on the way, maybe they just don’t need search like they used to.

On May 6, 2010, a new Google interface is showing on whatever data center it is that I’m accessing from the southeastern United States.

Having a fast website has always been essential to providing an enjoyable user experience, but now it is officially being recognized as a factor in Google’s search ranking algorithm.

Google’s latest search results seems to have the speed of Caffeine, but it isn’t digging nearly as deeply into the web’s content as that public Caffeine test from last August.

So the internet moves fast and you need more content to stay at the top – how do you tap into the potential of crowd-sourcing and ensure you’ve got something to blog about every day? Welcome to the Content Onslaught strategy..

After dropping a redirect on a domain name, it won’t take too long for the spiders to realize your domain is back and start the indexing process all over again. More details and updates on the SEO nuances of 301 domain redirects and bringing a dead site back to life.

Does a redirected domain transfer its pagerank or its keyword ranking positions? After a few months of redirecting one domain to a related one, I think I can shed some light on the current SEO implications of doing so.

So where is Google’s Caffeine update, and what can we expect from the search results when the new push goes live?

The only question left is “how much” does it help and “how often” can you provide it?

What looks like a search penalty may actually just be a case of over-optimization on supporting pages – a phenomenon known by many internet marketers as keyword cannibalism.

Google says that webmasters don’t need control over SideWiki comments about their sites, but they’re exercising the ability to remove complaints about the service from their own pages.