How to Please the Penguin: Making Friends with Google’s New Ranking Algorithm

Posted by Vania B on May 11, 2012 | 0 comments

What is Penguin and why do we care?

Penguin is Google’s cutesy name for a powerful secret formula, a special blend of factors that currently determines Google search rankings. Penguin, just like Panda and previous Google formulas or algorithms, is part of the company’s ongoing mission to highlight Good and penalize Evil. In the Google Universe – the Googleverse, if you will – good web content is original. Good content is relevant to search terms. And good content is naturally popularized; it doesn’t rely on shady tactics to get a #1 ranking. Read on for specific tips about how to please the Penguin.

The Penguin likes keywords but only in moderation. Articles written by keyword stuffers (i.e., writers who go keyword-crazy) suffered major hits when the Penguin started patrol. How can the offending sites recover? You don’t need to order all new articles with lower keyword densities. One strategy is to use synonyms or near-synonyms as substitutes for overused keywords. For example, if you’ve used the keyword 2013 Lexus GS too many times in a review, replace some occurrences of the phrase with words like luxury hybrid or powerful vehicle. Besides that, the Penguin likes anchor text diversity. Varying the words used in your links may help improve your website’s ranking. In particular, it’s a good idea to monitor your use of “money keywords” versus the alternatives.

• Money keywords are the words and phrases you’re trying to rank well for.
• Non-money keywords are words and phrases such as “this blog post” or “our website.”

Microsite Masters has found that the new Google formula discourages sites that use money keywords as anchor text in 65% or more of inbound links. Thus it could be advantageous to actually use your domain name or a straightforward “click here” invitation as your link text.

Have Authorities Vouch for You

The Penguin is wary of strangers. Inbound links from authorities in your niche resonate with the Penguin. When an authoritative domain in your industry posts a link to your site, the Google ranking program becomes more confident about your relevance and high quality. After all, an authority link can’t be manipulated through gray-hat or black-hat tactics.

Conversely, spam recommendations will raise red flags. Excessive forum posts and low-quality blog comments are examples of inbound links that can hurt your ranking. If you’ve been a link farmer in the past, it’s time to prune your crop! You might find that removing harmful links is time-consuming, expensive or impossible. If that’s the case, focus on developing high-quality links through legitimate means such as guest blogging, content marketing and gaining authoritative recommendations. Also, submit a list of stubborn bad links to Google and explain how you’ve worked to remedy the matter.
Remember: The More Things Change…
Penguin has the same overall vision as its predecessors: to showcase original content that’s useful or entertaining. Now more than ever, Google can avoid highlighting the low quality or copied pages that have only risen through aggressive backlinking and other shady means. When you provide great articles, videos, infographics and so forth for web surfers, you’ll give the Penguin what it wants and you’ll become viewed as an authority by a wide web audience. Everybody wins.  

How to target and rank high for low competion keywords

Posted by Andrew on May 30, 2011 | 11 comments

New York SEO, Search Engine Optimization

Posted by Andrew on Apr 3, 2011 | 23 comments

           The best Search Engine Optimization Services in New York. (SEO)

New York City, with a population of over 8,000,000 people, is the most populous city in the United States. It is known for its status as a financial, cultural, transportation, and manufacturing center. This dangerous combination makes competition of small and mid-sized businesses pretty fierce. Many organizations push online marketing efforts, spending thousands on prepaid advertising, paid search campaigns and other activities.

However, the most effective way to get your target audience — doesn’t matter what business you’re in — is Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Your New York business can easily crush competition by capturing the best possible customers — people who search for your services, and find them. There are occasions when sites don’t have enough content to support their SEO campaign, there are times where pages in your site are ideal for the visitor, but missing integral parts for a successful SEO campaign. As you may know Content is king on the net. We provide a professional content writing service that will permit you to keep your current content, while incorporating new content and / or pages in your site to maximize the success of your SEO campaign. This highly creative content will incorporate your selling message, robust calls to action and exhibit the same appearance as your current net pages.

So how does this magic work? Simple:
- a customer types in something like “New York Business Insurance” into a Search Engine like Google or Bing
- if you were selling Insurance and were our client, your website would be come up on they first page of google for targeted key words.
- if the customer goes for a map search, your business would be listed on the map — easily visible to all customers
- you get your New York customers, conversions, sales, etc
*note: New York Business Insurance is merely an example, people search for everything, literally
We offer a full spectrum of services from concept to website development and the actual SEO. If you already have a website, we’ll easily modify it (without any serious visual changes — unless you want them of course!) to get more Search Engine visibility. Want to increase your companies sales? Try conversion rate optimization services to help turn more visitors into customers.

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