Google - Mark Thompson

Monday Tip – Google Doesn’t Care About You

April 23, 2012 By Mark 33 Comments

I had a totally different blog post planned for today but a number of things came together at the same time and it would be foolish not to highlight them. They are very important and all connected. The first was a post in the Wordpress Goldmine Forum by one of our long term members Paul Nichols who pointed out a fiver gig that offered to sent 67,000 poor quality links to your competitors. (probably the same gig that offered to send you 67,000 quality links before the last algo update!) I know what you are saying…. Google says that competitors can't harm our rankings. Do they ? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Internet Marketing, Monday Tips Tagged With: branding, Google

Micro Niche Sites Vs Authority Sites

April 18, 2012 By Mark 21 Comments

I've recently been hearing about a number of major players in the AdSense and Niche blog business losing their Adsense accounts. The consensus of opinion seems to be that one of the reasons for the AdSense accounts being closed is that google doesn't like people who set out to earn lots of money from AdSense revenue by creating hundreds of niche blogs. For a change I can actually see their point, from experience I know that once you start getting a lot of sites you struggle to keep them updated and fresh. That's not to say that Micro sites don't have a place, after … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Income Generation, Internet Marketing Tagged With: authority sites, Google, micro niche sites

A Return To Sanity… Please!

March 30, 2012 By Mark 17 Comments

I've just finished putting together the March edition Of I.M. Manifesto which will be released over the weekend. One thing I noticed and was made clear to me when I was reading the articles that this months contributors had submitted was, Most people I know through this blog and WPG are sensible and don't get caught up in the hyperbole and sabre rattling that seems to emanate from many blogs and public forums. Since google changed the algo last week (zzzz Booooring) there have been numerous posts about the death of SEO (Yes I know I wrote one myself!) and people stating half truths and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Make Money Online, SEO, Site Promotion Tagged With: Algo, fanboy, Google

Google Algo Changes – Is SEO Dead?

March 21, 2012 By Mark 14 Comments

Another week another Algo change , at least that's what it seems like. It seems that yesterday google instigated some major changes to the algorithm which targeted Build My Rank (BMR) and possibly other private blog networks. However there are also plans in place for Google to target "overly optimized sites" You read that right, google are planning on targeting sites that are obviously seo'd. I haven't bothered to check how bmr has affected me yet as google choose to instigate these changes while I was flying to Barcelona . So much for me having a few days away from IM! I can't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Thinking, Internet Marketing Tagged With: Algo, algorithm changes, Bmr, Google

Google Hates You!

September 19, 2011 By Mark 53 Comments

Google Hates You!.. They do, they loath you and spend all their massive resources trying to stop you earning money online, They hate they way your sites clog up their nice databases… well at least it seems that way. I really do wonder if sometimes they have completely the wrong idea about what should rank in the indexes. Last week i was doing a search for a particular golf club I wanted to buy, I typed in the club makers name and model and added review to the end , as I wanted to see what everyone else thought of it. Almost every site on the front page was an online … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Internet Marketing, Make Money Online Tagged With: blackhat, Google, whitehat

Google Farmer Update – The Sky Isn’t Falling

March 7, 2011 By Mark 10 Comments

There has been so much written about the Google "Farmer" update that you probably are bored to death with it. It's not like Google don't do regular updates, this is just another long line of many. There has been volumes about how Ezinearticles have suffered and having read some comments you'd be start to believe that none of Ezinearticles content was ranking. You'd be wrong. I am still getting clickthroughs from Ezineartilces, I have actually been scratching my head over the past week wondering why there has been so much written about something that impacted me and several people … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Article Marketing, Internet Marketing, Make Money Online Tagged With: farmer, farmer update, Google, panda update