In the never-ending quest for dominance in search results rankings, websites everywhere are searching for quality content. While a number of legitimate operators are investing in this content production, others are taking the easy way – stealing it from other high-ranking sites. For those practicing this underhanded way of dominating their space, it seems like the economical way to drive traffic and increase search rankings. The problem is that stealing content from other sites does not help your search rankings – it can actually hurt them.

By now, it is well-known that Google changed its algorithms earlier this year so as to avoid giving priority placement on search rankings to sites built merely to drive ad dollars without providing any quality or benefit to the site viewer. Google is focused on eliminating those sites that are mere content-mills or those that are simply taking content from other sites and posting it as their own original work. The search giant developed its most recent algorithm to be able to identify the original source of the content and render consequences for those who are doing nothing less than stealing...

It's time to go beyond the home or business computer. With mobile technology reaching new heights, SEO for the mobile web is here to stay.

Technology continues to change the way people live and how businesses market. We can see how last year with newer smart phone technology and advances in access to the web via mobile devices,  there was a growing trend into the new year for the business mobile audience.

Mobile marketing hasn't quite taken off yet, but it may soon because of the untapped market out there for businesses to connect to and reach their potential customers.

How much has mobile Internet use increased in the last year or so?

Well, to answer that question, we pulled some data from some surveys. These surveys suggest that 66% of  iPhone users do more browsing on their phone than using it to make phone calls. This is for the iPhone alone. We don't have data for other smart phones like the android, but we can estimate that the percentages might be pretty close to that of the iPhone...
 

Many people in the SEO field are asking the same question: is a company as powerful and sophisticated as Google really unable to control the inappropriate use of DoFollow and hidden links? Or is it just not high enough on their agenda? Certainly, for those of us in the web design business, it should be. How many times have we worked hard, producing a genuinely great website for a worthwhile and well-respected company, only to have it beaten out, even if only by one ranking, by some non-...