The Google Panda update is well and truly rolled out to UK sites.
Some sites lost a high percentage of their traffic, others were unaffected. To minimise your site exposure to the new rules, consider the following 5 very important tips:
Unique content is more important than ever
Links from low quality directories and blogs are worth less
Quality relevant backlinks are worth more
Quality relevant links from authority sites are worth more
Remove duplicate (and spun) content or risk being de-indexed.
Keep your site within the new rules and your traffic will return and if you were unaffected, significant gains could be realised.
Facebook is becoming one of the world’s largest search engines. Use it as a way for your page to be found. If you have not set your username (Pretty URL) on Facebook, do it today!
Directing visitors to a business page is so easy with a URL like:
Facebook’s usernames will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis.
Once you pick a name, it’s yours for life.
You don’t necessarily have to use your real name.
You won’t be able to get a ‘generic word’ as your username.
You’ll have to use at least five characters
While Facebook is encouraging the use of real names, you aren’t limited in that regard. The system will suggest a few available options based on your first and/or last name, but it’ll also provide a blank field in which you can type something completely unrelated.
Each Facebook account gets only one username, and you can never change it. You can’t transfer it to someone else, either. Even if you delete your Facebook account, Facebook says the name won’t go back into the pool.
So go ahead, grab your name before someone else does….
With our “Standard Submission” package after we have submitted your website to the search engines and directories it will take up to ten weeks for your website to be added to their indexes, depending on the search engine. Some smaller search engines will take only a few days to index your page. However, most of the other larger search engines will take several weeks. Such a delay between the date of submission and the date of indexing is due to the extremely high number of submissions (sometimes tens of thousands) that the most popular engines receive each day.
With the “Standard Submission” we only submit your website to the search engines and cannot guarantee that they will include your website in their indexes. If you want to ensure guaranteed fast inclusion of your website into search engine indexes, we recommend our De Luxe XL submission package.
Each time Google update the database of web pages (about once a month), the index shifts. If your site was dropped from Google and you have not made major changes to it in the last month, Google will likely pick it up again in the next index. It’s possible your site was simply inaccessible when the robots tried to crawl it.
You may want to check and see if the number of other sites linking to your URL has decreased. This is the single biggest factor in determining what sites are indexed by Google, as we find most pages when our robots crawl the web and jump from page to page via hyperlinks. To find out who links to your site, use Google’s link: tool.
It’s also possible your rank decreased because other sites were found and assigned a higher rank. You can be assured that no one at Google has hand adjusted the results to boost the ranking of a site. Google’s order of results is automatically determined by several factors, including the PageRank algorithm. Please check out Google’s “Technology Overview page for more information on how this works.
The Google Panda update is well and truly rolled out to UK sites.
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