Where do you plan to spend the summer: up in the mountains, down at the beach or stuck in the computer room cleaning up your website?

In her helpful article, "Matt Cutts Talks SEO for Google: 9 Things You Should Expect this Summer," Jennifer Slegg summarizes a video in which one of Google's distinguished engineers kindly tells all interested parties which it is likely to be.

Batten Down the Hatches

Forewarned is forearmed, and if you know what's...

Some webmasters feel that it is, and Barry Schwartz, author of "Did Google Just Penalize Another Link Network? SAPE Links," has his suspicions as well.

Although Google never does mention SAPE by name, it has made no secret of its plans for future downgrading of sites that deign to traffic with link farms in general. Many webmasters, particularly those of the Black Hat persuasion, have recently reported huge drops in page rank after having dealt with this one.
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A sales tax charged on Internet transactions: What is the government thinking?

If the politicians have their way, that's just what the law will require of any online retailer whose revenue tops $1 million a year.

If you agree with me that the proposed Internet sales tax bill could use a little work, you'll be glad to know that Rohit Arora is of the same opinion. In Internet Sales Tax Will Bite SMBs he tells you how the implementation of such a change could overwhelm any...

Many beginning businesses have trouble getting their sites to rank at the top of Google. They might rank at Page Five, but have trouble ranking for Page One. This is bound to cause serious problems for those businesses interested in gathering new customers. The reasons why are obvious. Without being on page one of Google, you lose the ability to gain organic traffic for your business.

In the world of search engine optimization, organic traffic refers to the number of hits a person gains...

Many business owners are intimidated when they hear the term “search engine optimization” While SEO can be a complex field, there are a few relatively easy techniques you can use to help earn your page a higher ranking in the search engines. One of these techniques is known as “on-page optimization.” Optimizing your page means making sure that all of your code is search engine friendly, all of your images load in the shortest amount of time possible and that your links are permanent....