Google’s Penguin Strikes Out

The other day I was in my webmasters tools area when I saw that I had a notification. I opened it up and read that one of my sites was “Flagged” due to having some links on “KNOWN” to be considered bad sites.

The fact was I have not even hardly blinked an eye at this site for over 2 years now.

And…

I resent the fact that links coming “in” to my site can damage my rankings. Anyone who is in the SEO business or people wanting to rank their sites high in Google can easily post links to their competitors websites on sites that are not approved of by Google.

And…

How the heck can any one gain control of the “world wide web” of links gone outta control?

Anyway… so after reading this message and feeling my face get hot as the tension between my eye-brows started to grow, I thought, “Hm… I wonder if my site is not even ranking” in Google’s search.

I surfed on over to Google and typed in the top keyword my site is focused on and Viola! There it was ranking on page one about the forth site down.

???

You know what?

I am sick and tired of SEO, Google, and don’t even get me started on the OXY-MORONIC way that the world wide web is Google’s playground and while they DO help us find what we’re searching for, I’m sorry, THEY have links pointing to their own search engine sitting on KNOWN bad sites. I’m SURE of that!

PLUS, I KNOW they have tons of sites that have violated the copyrights of millions of people’s work.

And… while every image they add to their image directory does link back to the website where it was snatched… the fact is that many of THOSE images are violating copyright laws and Google contines to rank those sites that have those copyright images. I guess now we call it, “Sharing”.

AND…

AND…

(((((SIGH)))))

Never mind… I need to get back to work.

Deep breath… in…. out…. relax…. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I LOVE and HATE Google.

While Google is seeking to be helpful, they themselves are very guilty of the very things they try to avoid, ban, and play around with in their cute and cuddly named algorithms.

Where would Google be without US? HM?

What do YOU think?

Breath in…. breath out…. relax…. (deeeeep breath)

Bending the Web – Our Minds – Reality

I really enjoy keeping a close watch on Google and all the improvements they are making. The apps they have developed are a great help for all Internet users. I’ve been so busy that I have not been able to give Netwoozy anything new lately, but I’ve been taking notes.

There is one VITAL bit of news you NEED to really have sink into your brain. . .

Google Plus is on the raise and it is a smashing way to increase traffic to your websites, blogs etc… and it is a seriously great way to start making money online. Check out the step by step guide and video tutorials here — > Google Plus Video and Step by Step Training Guide

This year in 2011, Google’s Chrome browser jumps ahead of Firefox as the most used web browser 25.69% to Firefoxes 25.23.

Here’s some of the highlights:

The Google Toolbar with a Drop Down Menu

This is a great little addition to your web browser. The new toolbar just takes up the space of an icon instead of an entire row.  You can snag this Google Toolbar here.

Google and Yahoo – Tablet Friendly

Both of these search engines have adapted to the Smart Phone and Tablet. I recently purchased an iPad 2 during Black Friday and was really happy to see Google had done this.

What is shocking to me is that a lot of people in business today have not had a mobile website created for their business. With people using the Internet for local searches it is vital that you have a mobile friendly website as well as basic website for all Internet users.

Bending Technology – TV Becomes Reality

“Samsung has released a video showcasing the potential future look and feel of computer technology, using an ultra-thin and flexible screen technology.”  Read the full story.

It’s hard to believe but Samsung has a flexible OLED touchscreen technology that people will be jumping through hoops as high as the moon to get. I mean who wouldn’t want to own a bendable phone, tablet or PC that you can roll up and toss in a smaller bag. A computer that weights… well, hardly anything.

If you’ve watched the TV show Terra Nova you’ve seen these futuristic looking tablets on TV. I don’t know if those are the real deal or just some special effects, but it looks like it is now a real deal.

Why have 62 Universities gone Google? What about the 4 million companies using Google Apps for business? Why is it that more businesses are joining every day at the rate of 5,000 per day?

Going Ape Over Google Apps

This is some of the recent Google highlights reported by an official Google Apps Marketing Manager, Jeremy Milo.  Let’s consider some of these apps that some have gone Ape… er… Google over.

Introducing the Power of Google Chrome

You can take your SmartPhones, Laptops, and iPads with you, but you can’t always connect to the Internet.  This may be a little bit frustrating at times, but Google Chrome offers a solution.

Working Offline – There’s an App for that!

With Google Chrome you can continue to work offline in Gmail, Calendar and Docs. The thing about Google is the way they integrate everything that is “Google”, making it easy to go from one thing to another.

More Apps to Go Ape Over

So, you log into your Gmail, and you are logged into Blogger too. Plus, there are tons of other apps you can work with using the same account.

• YouTube – You should be uploading and sharing videos on your site using YT
• AdSense – One of the more simple ways to make money online with niche blogs.
• AdWords – Good to have and login to when using G Keywords tool.
• Analytics – A must for tracking the who, what, when, how, and where from your site.
• Blogger – A great social network for aiding in building a powerful blog network.
• Webmaster Tools – Get the SEO tools and advice you need directly from Google.
• Blog Search – Ah yes, this is a great way to discover other blogs that share your niche. Find blogs you can comment on as well as submit guest posts to.

And there’s plenty more.  If you have yet to experience the Google apps listed above, it’s time for you to check them out. These things along with other social apps like Facebook and Twitter are a vital part of driving traffic to your site as well as part of your SEO circle of success.

Let’s see what the fuss is all about for the new Gmail is bragging about. They’ve redesigned it to be as “clean, simple and intuitive as possible.” What do you think?

Here’s the Scoop on the GOOGLE APPS Thingy’s

There are many ways to drive traffic to your blogs. Google’s search engine is just one way. Facebook, Twitter, and social blogs like Blogger are part of the big picture.

I have yet to use Google Chrome. It’s my next task on my list of things to do this coming week.

How about you? Do you use Google Chrome? What do you like about it?

Has The Panda Dealt a

Critical Blow to Article Networks?

As of Feb. 2011 Google introduced quite a few changes within it’s ranking algorithm, calling it the Panda update.  Over the next few months these updates caused quite a stir online.

Many people becoming quite angry and upset at the loss of their rankings. Others confused and lost over how to adjust the new Panda algorithm.

The main goal of the Panda algorithm was to weed out poor content such as seen on content farms.

Over the past week or so I’ve been giving this Panda algorithm a lot of thought. My main goal was to figure out exactly what it is that makes this Panda tick.

There is one particular aspect of the Panda algorithm that has stuck out in my mind. It is the connection I see between content farms and article networks.

What are content farms? Content farms are sites that contain content for the wrong purpose. Their purpose is to satisfy search engine algorithms in order to reach a high ranking result.

I mention that it is the wrong purpose because a site’s content should have a far more honorable purpose. One that is geared toward providing useful content for the visitors not content to please mindless search engine algorithms.

My blog, Netwoozy, has never been a content farm. I personally write each post and I’ve never written the content for the sole purpose of making a search engine happy. However, I have been guilty of using Article Networks. And if content farms are bad what does this mean for article networks, which in fact produce poor quality content that is posted to content farms?

Are Article Networks Content Farmers?

Now let’s take a closer look at article networks. What is the purpose of an article network? To post your articles to other blogs. This doesn’t sound like a bad idea. However, what types of blogs are your articles posted to?

Basically, a high percentage of blogs within these networks are content farms. Now have not subscribed to every article network online so I do not know  if every one of them is full of content farms.

However, I can tell you that the majority of articles written and submitted to these networks are written by freelance writers, most of whom are paid very little. Writers who are paid $3.00 to write an article that takes 20 minutes to write are simply rewriting content found from other article directories.

This is not the type of content that makes the Panda happy.

The result?

The majority of your articles are landing on content farms. You may even been subscribing to these networks in order to get “fresh” content daily thinking that if you post a new article everyday it will improve your rankings. But “fresh” content doesn’t mean Panda approved content. And fresh content can harm your website if it is considered poor content.

Therefore, if you are submitting articles to content farms…

Are You Guilty by Association?

If you’re standing with a group of people who are known drug dealers, what will people looking on think about you? Will they assume you are a drug dealer or perhaps an addict? If you’re not either of these two types of people, would you feel comfortable being associated with them?

So, how do you think your backlinks will be viewed if the majority of your backlinks come from content farms?

Perhaps it’s time to rethink where we post our content.

What do you think?

Related Posts:

Anchor Text Strategies, Hurling Day for the Exact Match

Part 1 – SEO Panda Update

Part 2 – Thinking Outside the Panda SEO Box

Boosting Your SEO VIA Articles

If you post articles to blogs, and you use WordPress, it’s quite easy to find where those articles have been posted by enabling Trackbacks. Trackbacks are found in your Comments section. Trackback show the URL of where your article was posted by connecting your keyword anchor-text to your website.

Wherever your article is posted on another WP blog, you can go to that blog and then post a comment and social bookmark it as well. This boosts linkjuice of the page where your links are.

Typically, what post 1 or 2 comments on that blog. On the page where my article was posted, I’ll make a comment on the article but the URL I promote is not directly to my site. Instead I’ll promote another URL, like perhaps a video I’ve posted in Youtube, or another article posted on another blog, site or article directory.

Posting Comments – What Links to Boost

In addition to the comment on the page where my article is posted I will look for another article on the site and post a comment on that page that does link back to Netwoozy.

This process can take about 30 minutes a day depending on how fast you work and how many blogs you want to visit for this purpose.

Article SEO – Using Social Bookmarking

If the blog has any type of social networking buttons, I’ll use those as well. I will click on TweetMe, FB Like button, and other social bookmarking buttons in order to help boost the page on that site where my article is sitting.

Outsourcing – How to Leverage Your SEO Efforts

You can also pay someone to do this for you. I would highly recommend you train the person to do this work exactly as you want it to be done. A lot of VA blog posters have poor grammar, bad spelling, and are lazy. So, you’ll need to follow up on their work to be sure you’ve hired the right person for the job.

Anchor-text Strategies

Exact Match VS Match Variants

For many years the strategy for anchor-text linking has been to create an exact match for the desired keyword phrase to rank well in the search engines. This exact keyword phrase would then be used over and over again within all areas of SEO, both on-page SEO as well as off-page SEO, for backlinking hypertext and anchor-text links.

Over time, these methods had to be tweaked here and there to keep up with the changing of the search engine algorithms. However, little change was made regarding anchor-text links.

In 2011 Google introduced the highly intelligent Panda algorithm, with an ever- increasing content evaluation IQ. The goal of this algorithm is pretty simple: to deliver the best user-friendly search engine experience while obtaining the most relevant as well as beneficial results.

There has been a lot of speculation and rumor about how to rank well in the search engines during these changes. However, if we want to know how Google’s new Panda thinks, the best way to figure things out is to go directly to the source.

Matt Cutts – Anchor-Text Variant Strategy

Matt Cutts is one of Google’s representatives who assists webmasters in understanding what they need to do in order to make Google’s new Panda algorithm happy. I was reading one of his blog posts today about how to write useful articles and within this article I found a wonderful gem of information.

Pay attention to his little bit of advice regarding keyword anchor-text links:

“I’d recommend thinking more about words and variants (the “long-tail”) and thinking less about keyword density or repeating phrases.” Matt Cutts, Writing Useful Articles that Users Will Love.

This helps us understand where our thinking should be when it comes to creating SEO content, anchor-text links, and on-page SEO. Exact keyword phrases repeated over and over again are not what this new Panda algorithm has been trained to look for. Rather than stuffing our SEO content with the exact keyword phrase that we are trying to rank, according to Matt, we should be using partial phrase matches along with keyword variants.

For instance, we might write an article with the title “Organic Gardening Tips for Newbie’s.” In the article we can use a variation of that keyword phrase, such as; gardening without chemicals, organic gardening secrets, tips for gardeners, etc…

Each of those keyword phrases is a variant on the targeted keyword phrase that we want to rank. The overall content of the article as well as the title can help the search engine understand that our site is all about organic gardening.

When writing articles, your keyword anchor-text no longer needs to be an exact match. Instead, the combination of your keyword variants along with your on-page SEO will help your site rank well for a wide variety of keyword phrases, including your targeted keyword phrase.

If we really think about what Matt said in that one little comment, we will come to understand that we no longer need or want to be focused on exact phrase matches or any type of keyword phrase stuffing. Rather, our focus should be on consistent variants of the keywords that we want Google to give a high-ranking position.

Comparing the Old Exact Match with MC Recommended Anchor-Text Variants

Back in the Day, Exact Match:

Organic gardening in the title tag, organic gardening in the h1, h2, and h3 tags, organic gardening in the alt image tag, organic gardening mentioned 2% to 4% throughout the content, and organic gardening anchor-text links in the side-bar, footer, and header.

And Today, the Panda Way:

Organic gardening in the title tag, gardening tips in the URL, h1 – gardening without chemicals, h2 – organic mulch tips, h3 – simple tricks for a healthy garden, alt image tag – best organic practices, and so forth.

As you can see, this new way of thinking about anchor-text linking is quite liberating. When someone types the keyword phrase, “Mom blue jacket”, with the old-school thinking we’d have to toss out using correct grammar in order to get that specific keyword into the article.

Today, we can easily add in that phrase by a simple variation, “My mom needs a blue jacket.”

I am sure that using the exact phrase match in some of our anchor-texts will still have a positive impact on our rankings. However, if we are not developing our SEO strategies so as to include well rounded variants of the keywords that we want to rank well, in time, it could possibly do more harm than good.

And if we are true forward thinkers, we’ll understand that the great Panda is learning to think more and more like a human being. And the more we conform to the new wave of SEO, the better our sites will fair with each and every Google Panda update.

FaceBook VS Google Plus

Remember those silly commercials by Yahoo? Do you YAHOOooooOOO??

Well, there was a time when Yahoo owned the search engine market. Up to 60% at one point in time. Then this amazing thing happened. Almost over night Google was THE search engine. It seemed like whenever a search was conducted in a movie, on a TV series, in the news… they “Googled” it.

WHAM! Yahoo was smacked out of this market in one clean sweep. Every since Google snagged the lions share of the search engine market, there has been no other contender.

Yah, Bing gave it a whirl, even making an appearance in the entertainment media here and there, but it was David trying to take on Goliath without his handy bag full of stones. Bing walked into that fight totally unprepared to take on the mighty Google.

The next step for Google was to dominate the video market. They bout Youtube last year in 2010 for a whopping six billion plus dollars!

Next they went after Groupon, but Groupon wouldn’t have it. They continued to turn down the SIX BILLION dollar offer to buy them out. Perhaps you are wondering what Groupon is. It’s a Deal of the Day website. So, taking over Groupon would be like snagging up a huge piece of the Ebay and Craigslist market share.

The rumor is that Groupon is perhaps holding out for a bigger offer based on the possible up to $2 billion in yearly sales.

What’s next?

Introducing Google+. Working it’s members up to 40 million within 4 months time.

Like Facebook but with some improvements.

Group video chats – it’s a chat room via everyone using video to be face to face.

Google allows it’s users to connect it’s Blogger personal blogs to their Google+ social networking accounts.

Facebook VS Google – Why Should YOU Care?

Social networking is a big part of making money online. Used correctly you can drive a huge amount of traffic to your website without worrying about SEO. And you can boost your SEO efforts using social networking. They go hand-in-hand.

If I was looking for a new product to create, this is what I’d be looking at now:

How to USE Google PLUS and Blogger to …

Drive traffic and Boost Your SEO

THAT I am SURE is going to be a new step by step video offer soon. Or maybe it’s already being done. I dunno. I just know that it’s worth keeping track of this new Google + social network.

Will Google make a quick snack of Facebook?

What do you think?

Post your thoughts below.

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UPDATE:

Google spent 500 million on um… their sneaky plot to rule the Internet.

Facebook Denied – Matt Cutts removes his FB page – why you ask? Well…. he “claims” its because they are not providing the proper education on privacy for their new addons.

Rumor – He’s in Kahoots with Google Plus to take over FB’s 750 million users.

To continue in the discussion about the Panda SEO Update, I wanted to share with you a little different POV.

(Read Part 1 – SEO Panda Update)

Google’s POV.

You see, making money online is a sweet deal when we accomplish it. For me personally, it is the only way I could make good money because of my physical limitations.

I say good because I have a little side business offline. I pet sit for people. This brings in about $2,000 to $5,000 per year. Not much, but I love animals and it’s more of a vacation to me than a job.

Okay, so… back to Google’s POV.

Google rules the world of searches. In fact, in case you haven’t noticed, Google actually owns a huge piece of the Internet pie. In addition to well, Google, they own Youtube. They purchased the big YouTuber for $6+ billion dollars. Yes, I said SIX B I L L I O N dollars!

You don’t get to be King of the Hill by walking lightly. I know, I’ve played a lot of Halo KOTH games online and it’s a killer vs killer game. Fun, but ruthless.

Okay, so Google’s changes have created a bit of a dent in my profit line. And while it was a dent for me, it was a tremendous financial blow to many others. So big in fact that some are scraping to find a way to pay the bills. And really kicking and screaming about how Google ruined their lively-hood.

But what does this mean for us? Is it the end of SEO?

Certainly not. What it does mean is that we have to work harder to to please – who? Ourselves? No, not us, but them, um, YOU, the reader. Okay, this is getting confusing.

We need to please those people who come to our blogs or websites and buy things, click on sponsor ads, give us Tweets and Facebook Likes, and share the love by telling others about our sites so we reap more traffic.

Wait?

What did I just say?

Did you notice something there? Yep, I didn’t mention Google’s search engine in that senerio. And that my Netwoozy friends is what thinking outside of the Panda box is all about.

Yes, Google is a wonderful way to reap lots of traffic when our site ranks well. But, it is not the ONLY way to skin this traffic-producing cat.

You know this year I’ve been incredibly stressed out. There were times when I just wanted to pull out my hair, hit my head against the wall, and crawl back into bed and wait for another day to spring up.

If there is one thing that bothers me it’s the inability to deliver what I promise. You know last year and the year before that when I started my SEO business I was able to rank people on the first page in Google for some very difficult keyword phrases within a few weeks. Within a months time I could rank that keyword phrase to number 1.

Success was something that helped me feel good inside. And it came with a great paycheck to boot.

Then this year I noticed things getting harder. I did my best to keep up by buying good software programs as well as subscribing to other programs that could automate my SEO efforts. I read about the updates, I researched and scrambled to understand how I could continue to rank my clients keywords high in Google’s search engine.

I personally trained people to use these tools and in fact, most of the time I could spend about 4 hours a week doing the SEO work I needed to do, and reap about 75 % of the profits. Pretty good right? Yah, it was good while it lasted.

By the way, I think all of us have noticed that the Internet never stays the same and technology is driving the Internet faster than most of us can keep up. Sooo, why do we continue to expect the way we make money online continue to reap if we don’t keep up with progress, regardless of the type of progress involved, we still need to keep up with it?

I invested $500.00 on a software program that was outdated by the time I installed it on my desktop PC and learned to use it.

What’s the Answer to this SEO Delemah?

Do we scramble to learn new SEO techniques? Is it time to update our software programs?

Personally, I think there is room for updates in the software department but there is also caution in thinking it’s the BE all END all to SEO. For this reason I’m taking a totally different POV here.

My goal now is to A. provide high quality content. I want YOU to enjoy coming to Netwoozy. I want to WOW you. I am going to dig up and research my way into your minds and hearts. If I take care of you, I know you’ll take care of me.

That’s how it works.

That’s how it suppose to work really. It’s not all about ME. It’s all about US. You and me together. Together we, the bloggers and website owners, can provide top quality content to our readers. And they, our readers, (you) will reward us by talking about us, commenting on our blogs, Tweeting and Retweeting, and sharing with others the great content we offer.

Now then…

It is time we stop relying on Google to send us traffic. Sure, we still would love to reap traffic from Google, but you know what? When we think about our visitors first, and we provide excellent top notch content, Google will notice.

Really?

Yes, really really.

We still need to understand SEO. If you watched the video on the previous article you have a better understanding of what Google wants. And if you stay tuned into Netwoozy, I’ll do the research for you and help you understand it as well.

So, was it Google’s Fault that the Panda updates shook our financial world?

I’ll leave that for you to decide.

This past week – while on VACATION (shish) I’ve been researching all over the net on how to become a guest blogger. This is a great way to drive traffic to your websites and blogs.

You can add me to Twitter or Facebook and I’ll Tweet and post to Facebook whenever I add a new post.

Did you miss part 1? Read Part 1 – SEO Panda Update

Is Google to Blame for the Sudden Losses Due to Rankings Dropping??

First I will share with you my own personal story of what happend to me due to the Panda SEO update. I’ve had one client for about a year. Each month I’ve been getting a nice check for doing specific SEO work. When the Panda started to shake up the rankings in Google’s search engine, to many, it was like getting hit by a Tsunami.  And it hit some of my clients websites as well. Their rankings dropped and I got a lot of panicy emails and angry phone calls.

Having a page 1 ranking can deliver traffic that reaps profits. Having a number 1 ranking on page one can deliver so much traffic that the profits are outstanding. Many people became totally reliant on Google’s search engine traffic. Some were relying on easy SEO methods to create those high rankings as well.

The results for both sides of the coin was serious. Some people lose their incomes over night. Some have still not recovered. While I personally suffered a few losses, I still have several other income streams that do not rely on Google.

Yet, I admit, I’ve been hating on the Panda SEO Update too.

That is until today. Today I took some time to think about the other side of the coin. I was thinking about Google’s point of view. And while I still have an issue with the fact that Google ranks in billions upon billions by using our websites as their means of obtaining profits, it is a win-win situation when people are able to find our websites should they not have any other clue how to get what they want by using other tools or search engine directories. Whoo… that was a long sentence.

This years updates have created serious issues for webmasters and SEO specialists. Some people who have been trying to learn SEO in order to make a living online have suddenly found themselves wondering if all the time and energy they have put into learning SEO has gone to waist because of the Panda SEO Update.

Others are saying that Google is to blame for their sudden loss in income. Either due to losing their SEO jobs or the loss of their rankings in Googles search engine. But let’s get down to basics here and think about the purpose of a search engine.

The Goal of the Panda SEO Update

Well, first off, Google must contend with a massive issue that sits right smack dab in the search engine optimization department. That is scrapper content, poor content, and content that has only one purpose, the goal of leaving backlinks in order to rank another website. Nothing that delivers any type of benefit to the readers. So the Panda SEO update was necessary in order to reach or continue reaching for this goal.

What is the purpose of the New Panda SEO anyway?

The purpose of SEO is to help Google understand what is on every page, why it’s on the page, how it can help people looking for what is on the page, and if that information on that page is worthy of sharing.  Now that is a lot of information for a mathematical algorithm to sort out. There is no way to analyze every page online manually so it’s up to the mathematical geniuses to figure it out.

There are black hat and white hat search engine optimization methods. And while black hat methods can be difficult for the Panda to toss out into search engine oblivion, white hat methods do not always deliver the best results either.

If you want to know the difference between SEO and SPAM, give a little listen to what Matt Cutts says in the video below.

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Okay, so now you understand a little bit about what Google thinks about SEO. So where do we go from here?

Tomorrow I’m going to talk about why we need to think outside the Panda box. And how we can do just that.

Before I close this post, I want to address the question again.

Is the Panda SEO Update to blame for the profit losses?

What do you think? I’ll tell you my thoughts tomorrow.

Stay tuned.

If you enjoyed this post, please click the Tweet button at the top of the article.

I’d also love to hear your stories on how the Panda SEO update effected your business as well.

Hi Everyone,

This year I’ve been doing my best to keep up with the great Panda. That’s the new algorithm that Google created to keep the garbage information out of their search engine rankings.

Here’s some things that I have “heard” and “read” and they are what Google has “told” us is true. Well, ehem… they don’t tell us everything.

Did you know that Google made 500 or so changes in their algorithm?! Wait… did you know that they actually do this every year? Well, I didn’t know that.

Their goal? To serve the best results for each user. Yep, they want to deliver the “goods”. The ranking enineers goal is to figure out why some searches spit out really poor results. There are triggers that do this and they try to figure out what those triggers are and why they failed to deliver the right goods to the searcher.

They go through a lot of rigorous scientific testing. Um… ok, well, I got this call from a Google employee the other day who wanted to update my website in their Google listing. Sweets! You know what I heard in the background? A lot of hooting and hollering. Those guys are having a lot of fun down there so I’m not convinced they are working all that hard ><

Google employes a lot of people who just sit around and compare website rankings. “Yep, that site looks good”, “Na… that’s a bad one”. … They actually DO manually look at a lot of websites every day.

Plus, they have people who are not employed going over the searches that provide more related search data for them to analyze.

One of the big changes that Google makes is based on what WORKS for USERS.

What does this mean for US? I think it means that the more WE focus on the benefits that our readers will gain by stopping by and reading our blogs or website content, the more our sites will “trigger” Google love.

That is in theory. I personally think that hackers and spammers and backlink junkies will still find a way to get to the top without deserving it. Plus, I also believe there are many websites worthy of top rankings that will never get there because they have not yet been discovered.

So, what’s the answer? Was there a question?

What can we do with SEO?

Honestly, my goal is to create a high quality website. I have two websites I will be focusing on in 2012. Netwoozy and my other site, which I won’t name here.

Every day Google gets closer and closer to filtering out garbage content. So, if you really want to make money online in SEO, I’m thinking you’re going to have to work very hard at delivering quality content rather than focusing on backlinking like crazy.

I’m not saying backlinking is out. I’m just saying quality is IN.