Reminder about Selling Links – from GOOGLE

I read a post from googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in which was posted by matt cuts about selling links. Here the post:

Google has already said that buying and selling links are against to GOOGLE quality guide lines. Google continue to repeat the guidance every so often to help the webmasters and the site owners of policy.

Google is requested you to away from the people who approaches to pay you for links or "advertorial" pages on your site that pass PageRank. Also selling links that pass PageRank violates Google’s quality guidelines, and Google does take action on such violations. The penalty for a link selling site start with losing trust in Google's search results, lower the page rank in GOOGLE PageRank tool bar. Also the consequences include dropping you ranking of your site in Google’s SERP.

When you receive a warning for selling links that pass PageRank in GOOGLE’s webmaster’s Tool, you get a notification message about “possibly artificial or unnatural links on your site pointing to other sites that could be intended to manipulate PageRank.” That's a sign that your site has lost trust in Google's index.

They are addressing to avoid this issue, we should very careful in checking the paid links should not pass any PageRank. You can remove the paid links or advertorial pages or you can use rel=”nofollow” attribute in you paid links. Make sure that no paid links on your site pass PageRank, then you can submit a reconsideration request and if you had a manual webspam action on your site, someone at Google will evaluate the request. After the request has been reviewed, you'll get a notification back about whether the reconsideration request was approved or not.

“We do take this issue very seriously, so we recommend you avoid selling (and buying) links that pass PageRank in order to prevent loss of trust, lower PageRank in the Google Toolbar, lower rankings, or in an extreme case, removal from Google's search results.”  - Matt Cutts, GOOGLE.

Some Best SEO Blogs for the Search Engine Optimizer

As we know SEO is everyday updating one. Also SEO has to read and update him or herself everyday to withstand in the Optimization Field by reading worth blogs and forums. Learning the right source of SEO Knowledge is always a SEO Person should have in his day today life. 

I Jus planned to post which helps a SEO to get real SEO Knowledge from various SEO Blogs. The below are the Latest and Knowledge Sharing blogs. I love all the below blogs surely these blogs helped me a lot to improve me..

SEO by the Sea 
Justin Briggs
SEOmoz
SEOBook
Distilled
Seer Interactive
Conversation Marketing
Blind Five Year Old
SEO Gadget 
Kikolani 
Search Engine Land
Search Engine Roundtable 
Webmaster Central Blog
SEO wizz
David Naylor
Occam’s Razor
Blumenthals  
Inside Search
Stone Temple
Marketing Pilgrim   

   

How to check if your SEO is working?

It is really not a matter how much we are spending on SEO every month, because without positive or beneficial results you can’t make any return on your investments. 

This blog is absolutely for the SEO beginners. If you have enough knowledge on SEO surely this post won’t be great stuff, but some nice stuff surely for the people whose spend money on SEO and doesn’t know how to track the results.

Checking the Key search term in various search engines is always great idea but that is not enough for the Future development of business or a website. Let see few factors to look out for to see for sure and how to know if your SEO is working.

Check your Traffic from Search Engine

If you see your daily views have gone up in Analytics dashboard, then this is the real and clear sign of your SEO Campaigns working well for you. Google Analytics will show you where specifically your traffic is coming from. If the views are from Search Traffic from Search engines then you can be very confident that your SEO is doing well. 

Track Your Conversions

If you are selling product or service on your website and started to get Calls, queries, emails and new sales then it is perfect indicator for worth paying the SEO. It doesn’t mean that at the earliest itself you should take a customer, all that you should keep get some emails and comments some activities on tour website. Always check the present results with previous for further improvisation. 

Track Your Key Search Terms Ranking

This would be great, if you are afford to track your keywords with keyword rank trackers. These tools are helps you to know if your SEO is working effectively.  These tools will check your website where your key search terms are ranking in Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, and Bing).

Google Removes ‘Not Selected’ from Webmaster Tools

If we login in our Google Webmaster tools and try to check the Index Status report in the advanced section, you will see the “Not Selected” option was removed.

What is “Not Selected” Option was used in the Previous days

Go to your Google Webmaster Tools using you login details.

Then Click Health -> Index Status ->Advanced

You can seen this before

Now Google was confirmed and removed the “Not Selected” filter with Google Webmaster tools.

Now you can see as 

What “Not Selected” Actually mean in previous days:

• It redirects to another page
• It has a rel=”canonical” to another page
• Our algorithms have detected that its contents are significantly similar to another URL and picked the other URL to signify the content.

Google’s John Muller said it was removed jus because of the reason it was confusing one for the webmasters. It was actually removed to help the Webmasters. Still many webmasters found the data useful. In fact, there were times when John from Google said himself that “not selected” data can be useful in some situations.