As reported over at Search Engine Land, Google’s “Penguin” update has been confirmed as completely rolled out. I still see some jumping around in some SERPs, but for the most part it does look to have settled in. So time for some analysis. I’ve been looking at the effects of my 100+ websites, competition in the niches I keep an eye on, and there are some clear trends in regards to how my personal SEO style(s) have been affected by this...

With sites like BMR, High PR Society, Authority Link Network, and others being deindexed left and right, where should you go to get high quality backlinks that are going to stand the test of time? Well, the best answer is to go with guest posting. Of course that can be an extremely time consuming effort. You need to contact webmasters, find out what type of content they are looking for, write it, and then hope it’s up to their standards. It can take weeks of...

Link Authority is a new blog network that accepts original articles with up to 3 keyword anchored in-context backlinks each. You have complete control over where the backlinks are positioned within the article, the anchor text, and the urls they point to. Getting high quality backlinks can dramatically reduce your workload. A single PR4 backlink can be worth more than several hundred PR0 backlinks (all else equal). Of course to get these kind of backlinks can be a...

While looking for a way to jump-start some Facebook fan pages, I ran into a couple of websites last night that look interesting. They essentially allow you to trade likes or +1s. Unlike about 50 other sites I looked at that offer the same thing, these one’s actually result in the Likes and +1s at a reasonable rate, as well as offering a pretty decent amount of “free” coins you can earn. (You can buy coins for pretty standard rates if your time is...

This review is going to be short and sweet, much like the ConvertIcon service. Rarely is any website so minimalist and functional. What ConvertIcon does is to take images (PNG, JPG, GIF), cursors (CUR) or icons (ICO) and convert them into images (PNG) or icons (ICO). You might ask, because this functionality is something that so many other programs and services offer, what makes ConvertIcon worth reviewing? Well the answer is simple. I mean that, the answer...

When you’re first starting out, it can be hard to make your website look good. Not only are images and photos difficult to take sometimes, they can also be difficult to find. You can’t just search for a photo and then paraphrase what you see like you can when searching for information. Even just using stock photos can run a few dollars per article, and if you’re writing hundreds of articles that can really cut into your budget. Using creative...

There are so many backlinking options out there it can really make your head spin. Reviewing them all can be quite a headache. With this review of VoltRank I wanted to help cut to the chase: Is it worth using? I admit my first time with VoltRank I just shrugged and said “meh”, and moved on to the next option. It seemed too simple a concept to really work, and at the time I didn’t have extra sites to put into systems like this. But more and more...