Archive for May, 2008
published by Hannah in General | Rep. Management | SEO | SEO Basics | SEO Tips
If you are worried about the consequences of having your site hacked here are some useful info that should put your mind at ease, knowing that you know what to do in case it happens.
- Google will delete you from their index but they will restore your URL in their index as soon as they confirm that your site is clean.
- Google will contact you to inform that your site has been removed from the index and will also give you the reason for removal (i.e. the fact that you’ve been hacked and they don’t want your site to appear in Google’s SERPs till it’s cleaned up).
- They’ll be nice about it. There’s no doubt about it Matt Cutts is really nice even to poor stressed out webmasters/website owners with hacked sites.
If being removed from the list worries you too much remember to focus on the positive part. Since Google will be contacting you, you can do something about it IMMEDIATELY. Note too that removal from the index is just a temporary thing so don’t sweat it. As Matt Cutts pointed out in his reply to Ryan Stewart, at least your prospective customers (users who click on the link from SERPs) won’t be turned off when they appear on a hacked page. Temporary removal would result in immediate loss/decrease of traffic but being retained in SERPs may result in long term loss of customers since word of your “insecure or low quality site” might get out. Remember SEO is not just about ranking well in SERPs but is also about reputation building so look at the bright side, stop worrying, and work on your site’s security. If you’ve been hacked then clean up your site at once…even before Google detects the problem and you receive notification that your site has been removed from the index.
According to Google Webmaster Central if your site has been hacked you should immediately:
- get your site offline
- assess the damage
- re-install the OS and make sure you install all the latest patches for software you news
- restore your site
- change ALL your passwords
- get the site back online
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published by Gary in Wordpress
If you haven’t heard of WordCamp yet and call yourself a Wordpress enthusiast then you’ll be happy to hear that it does exist. WordCamp is simply a group of Wordpress bloggers, designers, and developers that have come together to share their enthusiasm for Wordpress. Of course WordCamp is also supposed to be a sharing of [...]
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Continue reading “First WordCamp UK in the Works”
published by Hannah in Blogging | Social Media
One of my favorite bloggers, Sacha Chua, who has several hundred subscribers reading her personal blog regularly has this tips to offer if you want to grow you online network. The cool thing about the tips (which I’ll be listing below) is that they target your existing OFFLINE social network. The funny thing about us [...]
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Continue reading “Tips for Creating Readership from the Geek Chick”
published by Hannah in SEO
Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal recently compared the results of their survey with Search Engine Round Table’s survey. The surveys both tackled the issue of whether SEO bloggers reported their shadier colleagues/competitors to Google or not. The funny thing about the two surveys is that they yielded very different results as seen below:
Search Engine [...]
Popularity: 27%
Continue reading “Do SEO Bloggers Tell Big Daddy their Woes?”
published by Hannah in Keyword Research | SEO
A couple of months back I posted an entry on Yahoo! Search Assist and touched on how this can help SEOs find more specific keywords they should consider optimising for. I have just been playing around and not having visited Yahoo that much lately only just noticed the great addition to search assist.
Before even after [...]
Popularity: 34%
Continue reading “Making the Most of Yahoo’s Search Assist”
published by Hannah in On Page SEO | SEO | SEO Basics
While most are conscious about ranking well in SERPs many overlook the need to optimise for image search. Image search should NOT be overlooked since it can bring in considerable amount of traffic. As an example, in my personal blog it’s really funny how the search term “Mila Jovovich” gives me the most search traffic [...]
Popularity: 49%
Continue reading “Image Rank Factors”
published by Gary in Back Links | Blogging | Link Strategies | Organic SEO | SEO
In a previous post of mine I stated that “organic link building is making more and more sense“. A statement I definitely believe but a statement with lots of things going on behind it. Nowadays if you look at your own link building campaign efforts and compare it to the amount of effort you needed [...]
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Continue reading “Link Building - Why It’s Gotten Harder”
published by Hannah in RSS | SEO | SEO Tips
There are plenty of things you can do and should do to optimise your feeds aside from just clicking on a couple of Feedburner “activate” buttons. Some of the things you can do are actually the same things you do to optimise any normal web page including:
Using keywords - Use keywords in your channel and [...]
Popularity: 39%
Continue reading “Feed Optimisation Tips”
published by Hannah in Blogging | SEO
Everyone talks about optimising a webpage but for those that have blogs it is important that the blog feeds also be optimised. Remember that RSS feeds are not just blog subscribers but can also be a venue for the generation of new traffic. When a blog feed is properly optimised it can actually aid in [...]
Popularity: 31%
Continue reading “Feed Optimisation and Analysis via Feedburner”
published by Gary in Blogging | General
Some people purely looking for link juice leave comments with key words and phrases in their names. One common theme of people using this tactic is the poor quality of comment that more often than not adds little or nothing to the thread.
I want people to be able to enjoy and increase their knowledge by [...]
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Continue reading “Keywords in commentors names”
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