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Google Cracks Down on the SEO Industry

Business Internet Marketing As this week comes to a close, there is no doubt that the most significant development in the Internet marketing world was Google's latest update and algorithm change, undergone around the third week of November, and dubbed by the search engine community as "Update Florida".

Well, you can pay an SEO company to optimize your site (no guarantees), you can buy one of the many SEO applications (still no guarantees) or you can even advertise on Google using the Adwords program – a PPC ( click) marketing program that places those sponsored links on Google’s SERPs. You’ve seen them, over there on the right side of the SERP under the heading “Sponsored Links” (still no guarantees AND you have to shell out money for each click Google users make to visit your site).

Internet Marketing Strategic The soon-to-become-public mother of all search engines decided to crack down on the search engine optimization industry as its IPO draws near, and implemented a filter against thousands of sites that appeared to have been artificially over-optimized for certain competitive (and commercially appealing) keyphrases, wiping those sites out of the rankings.

Search Engine Optimization (or SEO) is a key element to getting your business noticed online. Taking advantage of the millions of potential customers on the Internet requires more than just a web site. You must also market your site. Marketing your site through SEO is one of the least expensive ways to get your site noticed on the Internet. Businesses how are able to maintain high search engine rankings are perceived as successful and trustworthy on the Internet.

Internet Marketing Seo What triggers the filter is still a subject of debate, although evidence points to the use of common search engine optimization techniques like placing keywords in the page title, increasing keyword density on the page, or placing keywords in the anchor text of inbound links.

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Ebook Internet Marketing The fact that these techniques have been widely used by many legitimate businesses, has caused thousands of perfectly relevant sites to disappear from the rankings, toghether with sites that clearly abused these techniques (for example, pages belonging to bogus networks of sites that link to each other, created and controlled by unscrupulous webmasters to artificially boost PageRank). We can safely say, therefore, that in its attempt to weed out spammers, Google has thrown out the baby with the bathwater.

Advertising your web site is extremely important, there a few easy and inexpensive ways to do it. Many SEO's use Google Adwords, affiliate marketing sites and banner exchanges to promote and sell their web sites, products and services. Google Adwords is a great way to advertise to people looking for a specific keyword or product and usually costs pennies per lead. Google Adsense is a perfect way to start a small advertising campaign.

Business Home Internet A large debate is now going on over if Google did right or wrong, and over what may have been its underlying motivations to take this course of action. Opinions range from the belief that Google did the right thing, to the theory that Google implemented the filter to force the eliminated sites to buy AdWords (paid sponsor listings). One way or the other, one thing is certain: with this move, Google has put a question mark on everything we knew about search engine optimization.

Start with the SEO company's own website. But "SEO" has 118, 000, 000 results in Google, and "search engine optimization" has 27, 200, 000 results, so don't expect the site to rank high for these generic terms. Also note that some SEO companies don't try to optimize their own sites for SEO because they get most of their business through referrals.

Internet Marketing Site Web In the meantime, thousands of businesses owners who used (or abused) search engine optimization techniques to push their pages to the top of the Google rankings (making a lot of money in the process) have now found their businesses destroyed. One more proof that focusing on only one Internet marketing strategy (especially search engine optimization, where we will always be at the mercy of the people tweaking the algorithms) is a recipee for disaster.

Based Business Home Internet The evolution of Google will be an interesting development to follow in the months to come. If you want to read more about Google's recent controversial algorithm change, you can read the following articles (they are somewhat lengthy, but will give you an accurate picture of what's going on with Google these days, and of what we may expect from them in the future):

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Estate Internet Marketing Real http://www.search-marketing.info/newsletter/buyads.htm

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