Weekly SEO news: 10 May 2011 |
Welcome to the latest issue of the Search Engine Facts newsletter. Google has published some questions that will make it easier to find out if your content is good enough for Google's latest quality filter. Is your website okay or do you have to improve it? Also in the news: Google tests a new (ugly?) result page, Google gives advice about Flash sites, HTML coding errors, backlinks, site speed and more. Table of contents: We hope that you enjoy this newsletter and that it helps you to get more out of your website. Please pass this newsletter on to your friends. |
1. Official Google advice: how to check if your contents pass Google's new quality requirements |
Google's latest search engine algorithm update (code name: Panda) caused a ranking drop for many websites. Google wants to reduce the rankings of low-quality content in the search results. To make it easier for webmasters to find out if the web page content is good enough for Google's new quality filters, Google has published some questions that will help you to judge the quality of your site: Can your web page content be trusted?
Is the content of your web pages unique?
Do you check the quality of your web pages?
Do you create web pages for your visitors or for search engines?
Do your web pages contain enough real content?
Even if your web pages contain great content, you still have to make sure that Google finds your web pages relevant to the right keywords. If you want to make sure that Google lists your web pages on the first result page for the right keywords optimize it with the Top 10 Optimizer. |
2. Search engine news and articles of the week |
Google appears to be testing a sparse, ugly new results page
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3. Success stories |
300,000 readers will read your success story!
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4. Previous articles |