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Today we’re talking about the effects of Google’s +1 button on your Google Rankings. I think the bigger question here is: Does anyone really use the +1 button? A quick poll of our employees here at MHS showed that no one here, accept for Dan, uses +1. And Dan only uses it for SEO testing, after this article he might become part of the non users. Do you use the +1 button? Leave a comment on our Facebook Post if you do. Since Google’s release of Google’s +1 button,

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This Tuesday’s SEO post is a reminder to assess your SEO Activities on a regular basis. What may be a great SEO technique last month may be killing you in Google today. White Hat SEO Techniques are the way to go. Once you go down the slippery road of trying to trick Google, its just a matter of time before you hit a dead end, and sometimes there is no turnaround. Many webmasters think that SEO has become more difficult after Google’s recent updates. That’s not case if you

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Mistake 1: having a website that is not crawlable According to Matt Cutts, the biggest SEO mistake is having a website that is not crawlable by search engines. If your website is not crawlable, search engines cannot index your pages and your web pages won’t be listed on Google. By correcting these issues, you make sure that search engines can index all of your pages correctly. Mistake 2: including the wrong words on your web pages Using the wrong words on your web pages is the

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Twitter is the latest large-scale company investigating the possibility of a password hack of its user base. It recently sent an email blast to accounts that may have been compromised and automatically reset their passwords. The social network joins a long list of companies — from LinkedIn to eHarmony to Dropbox — who have faced account hacks in recent months. Although site hacks are nothing new, it’s becoming increasingly critical to protect passwords, as incidents like this

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Connect Your WordPress Blog To: Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com has given its Jetpack plugin a big update. Think of Jetpack as a bridge that brings all the added functionality you need for WordPress in a single plugin. It adds in lots to the core WordPress features, such as stats, social comments, email subscriptions and more. With Jetpack 2.0, the plugin gets lots of new functionality, including the ability to automate sharing posts to various

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A new search engine tries to challenge Google. It doesn’t rely on backlinks and it actually delivers good results. Could this be a real alternative to Google? How can you make sure that your website will be found in this search engine? What’s the name of the new search engine? The name of the new search engine is Samuru.com. It was developed by Stremor, the company of Brandon Wirtz. Brandon Wirtz previously tested many different ways to game Google for fun and profit. As he

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This video may be a bit crass to some people, but I found it very precise and informative. This video has had over 200,000 views so you know he’s on to something here. We’re all looking for ways to grow our YouTube subscribers, as well as our Facebook Likes and Twitter Followers, this information has some overlap to consider for your other Social Network Growth Plans as well. Worth the watch, enjoy and follow this guy if you’d like, he’s probably got more good stuff to

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This warning is for WordPress users only. Change your WordPress Username ASAP! Most users are using a common username for their WordPress login ie; admin, your name etc… The default username that WordPress gives you is admin. This needs to be changed. Security experts are warning that an escalating series of online attacks designed to break into poorly-secured WordPress blogs is fueling the growth of an unusually powerful botnet currently made up of more than 90,000 Web servers. The

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Andre Weyher, a former member of Google’s web spam team, has given an interview in which he reveals several things that can be useful if you want to improve your search engine optimization campaign. 1. Relevance is the new PageRank We’ve said it before in our newsletter: do not focus on the PageRank of a web page. The PageRank that is displayed in Google’s toolbar is not the PageRank that Google actually uses in the algorithm. In addition, Google now uses other factors to

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Here’s a great YouTube Video from Google’s  Matt Cutts on how long it takes a Google Reconsideration Request to process. What is a Reconsideration Request? Sometimes referred to as a reinclusion request, Google has a formalized process by which it considers removing manual actions taken against sites in violation of its guidelines. It is essentially an apology letter to Google. You admit you messed up, tell them how you fixed it and promise you won’t do it again. If they think

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