Does Google PageRank Still Matter?

| June 21, 2011 | 6 Comments

Recently I’ve had a few separate conversations with clients about Google’s pagerank (or PR- not to be confused with public relations). Since many people, including my clients, seemed to be obsessed with PR I figured it would be a good opportunity to go into detail about the pagerank and how it affects a website SEO and rankings. [...]

Google Tweaks Search Results

| February 25, 2011 | 2 Comments

On Thursday Google announced that they were tweaking their algorithm that determines it’s search engine results in order to punish “low quality” websites. It is assumed that this move by Google will hurt “content farms” the most. Reference websites like eHow.com are often criticized for being full of useless content, with the sole purpose of [...]

Google Maintaining Market Share

| October 14, 2010 | 0 Comments

It’s now October 14, 2010, and we’re nearly a year and a half removed from Bing’s launch date (May of 2009). The much anticipated hype of the 3rd party challenger to Google and Yahoo has proven to be no slouch. In fact, according to Nielsen, Bing’s market share in July 2010 was up to 13.6%, [...]

Backlinks Are Important For SEO

| September 29, 2010 | 3 Comments

If you are looking to optimize you website, there are only 3 things to concern yourself with: quality content, keyword-rich title/meta tags, and backlinks. At Turbo Social Media, we continuously harp on the importance of having a blog, so I won’t discuss it at all in this post. I’ve also touched on title/meta-tags in this [...]