Author Archives: SEO Monitoring Software

What is the Supplemental Index Ratio?

Google has a secondary index containing pages pages considered of less importance. This pages are considered supplemental results, and returned in SERPs only if there are no pages from the main index matching the given search term(s). The Supplemental Index Ratio tells you what percentage of pages indexed from your website are supplemental results. The [...]

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Black Hat SEO – Maybe

Recently Internet Marketer and SEO Jonathan Leger recently revealed a interesting trick that one of his affiliates is using to grab top rankings in the SERPs and pocket a lot of cash. The sneaky trick he is using is actually pretty creative – though I don’t think I’d be brave enough to use it. It [...]

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Google SEO Search Commands

MasterSiteManager offers some great tools for monitoring your SEO statistics “at a glance” – but it’s not a “research” tool. So today I wanted to share some common and uncommon Google’s link commands that you can use for SEO in order to check on the performance of your website(s) and your competitor’s website(s). Using these [...]

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SEO Mental Masturbation and Ego Gratification

Ok, I know that’s a pretty graphic title for this post but if Sammy Hagar can use the word “Mental Masturbation” in a top 40 song about Rock and Roll, then I can use it when talking about SEO. In fact, it’s even more appropriate because that’s what we ALL do when it comes to [...]

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Mayday Update by Google Changes How It Values Long Tail Searches

Last week  Matt Cutts confirmed during Q&A, that the new “Mayday” update is in fact ”An algorithmic change in Google, looking for higher quality sites to surface for long tail queries. It (the update) went through vigorous testing and isn’t going to be rolled back.” Google also confirmed that this was a rankings change, not [...]

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