This always rattles my cage. Google goes through periods where it indexes my blogs almost immediately. Then seemingly without reason, or perhaps for some small transgression, it stops… Then it starts. Then it waits. Sputtering, sporadic visits, sometimes indexing new posts, sometimes ignoring them. Eventually, the pace picks up again, but it seems that some [...]
I discovered a while back that my profile page on ActiveRain had a PageRank of 2. That piqued my interest because, generally, I always considered it an offshoot of my blog on that website. The reality is that it is a single page that receives referral links from every post and every comment I place [...]
Matt Cutts has made it clear that there is no penalty for plagiarizing your own content- the algorithms treat it as syndication. Generally, the first appearance gets the best credit. What can easily happen though, is that if your repeat content is close enough to the original, Google may simply pass it by. This is [...]
Orange County SEO Expert Dave Keys A sort article I wrote on Activerain: Could Google’s Real Time Search be something that turns the whole practice of SEO and SEM on its head? Is it a new algorithm that will change how the web is leveraged for business? It could very well be. I just ran [...]
Like the entire 787 program, the maiden flight was delayed. Onlookers waited for an extra hour to see the aircraft take to the skies. Off lumbered the plane, burning up thousands of carbon credits and flying around in large circles, mostly with flaps down and staying under 12,000 feet. When the pilots finally test the [...]
I wrote a short article on the Solutions By Dave website. The importance of thoroughly analyzing your keywords for any SEO campaign, short term or long term cannot be stressed enough as shown by the illustrated study on the Fullerton real estate market. Sometimes the keywords that come to the mind of a business owner [...]
