One of the many myths concerning how pages are ranked is that the volume of traffic a website receives affects the rankings of the pages within that website. On the surface this seems logical as a website that gets a lot of traffic probably has good content. Unfortunately once given a deeper look this starts [...]

 
For the purpose of this blog post, when I say “Meta tags” I am referring to the Meta description and keyword tags only.
 
Back in the day, when Alta Vista was king of search and Yahoo was primarily a web directory, meta tags were powerful tools for helping a web page rank well in Alta Vista [...]

For those of you who have been living under a rock, domain authority is a popular concept that claims that a domain name that has lots of pages, gets lots of visitors, has lots of links, and is frequently indexed is an authoritative domain and gets special privileges from Google. These privileges supposedly include:

Your pages [...]

Matt Cutts again asked webmasters to report paid links to Google in his blog. And, as usual, webmasters whined and complained about how Google is asking webmasters to be snitches and that they are arrogant for asking webmasters to do this.
Well, I adamantly support Google doing this and applaud everyone who has report a paid [...]