Google EMD Update: Exact Match Domains

What is Google’s EMD Algorithmic Update? Google is going after "low quality" exact match domains (EMD) to ensure they do not rank well in the Google search results.  It seems like many sites were hit, as many webmasters have reported being hurt by this update. A WebmasterWorld thread has several webmasters claiming to be victims. I will do a poll on this in about a week, I don't want to poll our readers until they have time to investigate if they were impacted by this. But it seems...

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Changes in SEO: What You Need to Know in 2014

In the spirit of a New Year's Eve edition, I'm presenting some of the most popular (according to the US Government) New Years Resolutions through an SEO lens, in the hope of spreading some good cheer and great strategy along with a very happy new year to you and yours! The 2013 Updates So what exactly changed in 2013? Most of what occurred came as a result of Google algorithm updates. Panda was first introduced in 2011 to reduce the amount of content farming that was going on within websites....

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Google Webmaster Tools Now Shows Exact Number of Clicks per Keyword by URL

You know the search queries report in Google Webmaster Tools? Of course you do. Do you know, you can show your top pages by impressions and clicks? Did you know that now you can see the top keywords that led to impressions and clicks to those pages...

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Google Not Indexing Your Sitemap URLs? Might Be A Canonical Issue

                                            A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster all upset that Google shows that they have indexed none of the URLs they submitted via the XML Sitemap file. Obviously, this can be concerning to any webmaster. The thing is, you need to be careful what Sitemap file you submit. If you verify a non-www version with Google Webmaster Tools and submit...

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SEO 2014 Updation: Google Can not Crawl You Site

If Bot Can Not Crawl Your Robts.txt file Then we stop Crawling Your Site Did you know that if Google cannot crawl your robots.txt file, that it will stop crawling your whole site? This doesn't mean you need to have a robots.txt file, you can simply not have one. But if you do have one and Google knows you do and it cannot access it, then Google will stop crawling your site. Google's Eric Kuan said this in a Google Webmaster Help thread. He wrote: If Google is having trouble crawling your...

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