Tag Archives: Google

Small Business Reaps Big Blog Rewards

This post is a personal story of a friends small, family-owned business seeing impressively quick benefits from their new blog site. Last year I re-connected with a best friend from high school.   She runs the family business now – Broken Arrow Lodge & Marina  – on the Fishingest Side of Lake Livingston, Texas.   I have [...]

A ‘WhiteHat’ Formula for Purchasing Links

I’ve been up to my eyeballs in articles and blog posts about Purchasing Links and Google PageRank, and I’m getting a headache. It seems there is much debate over whether Purchasing Links is a Good Thing, or a Bad Thing – but – doesn’t the real issue lie in the ‘PURPOSE’ of a Paid Link [...]

Inbound links and Site Rank – does Google agree with ME? :-0

Am I reading this wrong, or did Google just say what I’ve been thinking all along? from Google’s Webmaster Help Center “Your site’s ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to you. The quantity, quality, and relevance of links count towards your rating. The sites that link [...]

Website Search Ranking isn’t ‘ALL THAT’.

Controversial title ain’t it I keep seeing this same general question asked – ‘Can ‘bad neighborhood’ inbound links hurt a websites search ranking?’, and I keep seeing the same general answer – ‘inbound links to a website cannot hurt said websites search ranking’. While I agree in theory, I’m not 100% convinced of it in [...]