Entries by Sterling King

Matt Cuts Reveals Old Google PageRank Documents

The former leader of the Google web spam team Matt Cutts shared, on Twitter, a few documents portraying early Google PageRank development notes and other search engine ranking information: Oh man. Looking through old stuff and found Google docs/papers I studied/annotated in ’99 from before I even joined. pic.twitter.com/pI97pIdxB6 — Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) January 3, […]

Niche Relevant Backlinks With GSA Search Engine Ranker

Most people who use GSA Search Engine Ranker utilize verified site lists and it’s for a reason. With verified site lists, you can achieve significantly higher verification success rates which respectively leads to higher VpM and much more backlinks built in a day. However, there is one tiny “issue” with this scenario – are the backlinks created relevant to […]

27 Marketers Reveal Their #1 Tool For Growth in 2016

We saw a lot of innovative marketing tools emerge in 2015. And, might I say, many of them were extremely good. Now, at the dawn of the new 2016, marketers are once again preparing their arsenal for the upcoming year. To commemorate this occasion, I decided to ask 27 marketing experts for their number one […]

You Can Safely Bulk Remove Backlinks From Your Disavow File

In the beginning of December 2015, Search Engine Roundtable reported a case of a person removing all of the backlinks in their disavow file and then stating that they saw a huge rankings boost as a result of this. Of course, we know the SEO world we live in, so there were most certainly other […]

Capital Letters in URLs Do Not Influence Google Rankings

You might probably be not aware that (sometimes) searching in uppercase vs lowercase letters returns (used to return) different SERPs as seen from this article. However, more recently, John Mueller from Google said that it doesn’t matter whether you use uppercase or lowercase letters in your URLs as this has no influence on Google rankings. […]

We Might See Google Penguin 4.0 in January 2016

As you have probably already heard, Google’s very own Penguin won’t be updated this year. However, in a recent Google+ hangout (around the 18:40 mark), John Mueller said that he is confident that Penguin 4.0 will happen in January of the new 2016: I don’t want to make any date promises but I am hopeful […]

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Google Will Now Index HTTPS Pages By Default

Google has never taken user security for granted. Thus, websites serving HTTPS pages instead of HTTP were given a slight ranking boost in 2014. However Google has not stopped there as they have been pushing hard for the more secure HTTPS protocol to be used everywhere. The next step they took in this process was to prioritize […]