Google often applies backlink devaluation to links from various sources that it considers spammers are exploiting to artificially raise the ranking of their sites. In addition, minor Google algorithm changes are continually being made in an effort to combat link spam. When link devaluation occurs, as it has with reciprocal links from low quality web directories and link farms, reductions in Google ranking may occur affecting the recipient site of the links. MORE >>

Lost links causes ranking to drop Rankings drop because other sites are better or have more links Rankings drop because of a search engine algorithm shift Also: Research your logs (site analytics) to find out if there is any unusual activity from a certain moment. SEO Nightmares Google Penalties Known Google filters and penalties You probably have a Google penalty when your site (or an important page) suddenly disappeared from the index. MORE >>

Ken covered keyword research, Jenny covered content optimization, Ian covered technical optimization, and I covered link building. Useful link analysis/link building tools include Yahoo Site Explorer , Back Link Analyzer , Thumbshots Ranking tool , TouchGraph , SEOChat PageRank Lookup , SEOChat PageRank Search and SEO for Firefox extension. Remember that the more links on the linking page, the less PageRank youll get. MORE >>

Internet Marketing Blog SEO Tools | Internet Marketing Services | Training & Consulting | Content Creation | About | Contact | Blog 10 Reasons Why Your Website Looks Like Spam Posted by QualityGal Date November 5, 2008 Category Website Quality Related How to Tweet your Google Reader Starred items How I Became QualityGal InLinks Launches. Exhibit D: Link Pages You may call it your “resource page.&# Joe Hall Heres a legitimate.info domain: [link] Darren Slatten Oooh! MORE >>

He is also a contributing author to two books, Membership Marketing (ASAE 2000) and Membership Essentials (ASAE 2008). Andy Steggles is the author of “Social Networking for Non-Profits” ( [link] ), published by ASAE. Young Association Professionals , Aggregage , Association Universe and Infinite Conferencing are are excited to bring an amazing series of interactive webinars on how association professionals need to think and act differently to drive member engagement. MORE >>