The Geek and Jock's Blog

Helping You Remove the Dreaded Google Penalty Slap Follow these guidelines to get the Google Penalty removed faster. Way back in February 2012, my GeekandJock Relationship Blog site was nailed by Google’s Quality Guidelines team as having ‘inorganic’ back-links. Like many Webmasters at the time, I wanted the quality content and relationship and dating help that I was producing to get into the hands of as many people as I could. The site wasn’t, at the time, geared to produce an income , though that was obviously the aim in the long term. I was engaged in common practise of peppering other websites with back-links that, in hindsight, wasn’t natural and the site paid the price. Real bad. Google Isn’t Forthcoming in Back-link Removal Assistance The site, like many of yours, is a labour of love and a part-time activity. Getting the dreaded short notice, instantly had me shaking at the knees. What do I do next? In short, here’s what you need to do: ...

It’s All In The Engagement and Communities We’re always looking at increasing client traffic, creating strong Social Signals for engagement and SEO as well as maintaining a very low resource footprint because we (well me in particular) like to minimise repetitive and boring tasks. Those 3 areas are what every website owner lusts after. Am I right? And I’m guessing you’re probably just like us. So do you want some secret sauce that we’re testing at the moment? Social Is The New Traffic Source, No Question! I hope you have been keeping a little abreast of SEO trends and what Google has been doing for the last 12 to 18 months because it has to do with engagement and Social Signals. I remember predicting this trend with my last Marketing employer 24 months ago and stressing the need to combine their SEO and Social team resources. Pity they didn’t move on my recommendation back then as they would have been ahead of the game, though I understand they’...

It’s All In The Engagement and Communities We’re always looking at increasing client traffic, creating strong Social Signals for engagement and SEO as well as maintaining a very low resource footprint because we (well me in particular) like to minimise repetitive and boring tasks. Those 3 areas are what every website owner lusts after. Am I right? And I’m guessing you’re probably just like us. So do you want some secret sauce that we’re testing at the moment? Social Is The New Traffic Source, No Question! I hope you have been keeping a little abreast of SEO trends and what Google has been doing for the last 12 to 18 months because it has to do with engagement and Social Signals. I remember predicting this trend with my last Marketing employer 24 months ago and stressing the need to combine their SEO and Social team resources. Pity they didn’t move on my recommendation back then as they would have been ahead of the game, though I understand they’...

Webinar Express – Goodbye to GoToWebinar Forever! Every once in a while, a product comes along that literally changes the course of an entire marketplace. Google did it with Online Advertising Apple did it with the iPhone Well, for far too long, Online Webinars have been expensive and very clunky to use. I tried working with GoToWebinar 12 months ago and it was a nightmare to use and equally so to record and store for later use. I gave up in utter frustration. GoToWebinar and their fellow online webinar businesses are about to go out of business, seriously. Webinar Express is a WordPress plugin that has only just entered the market and it is mindblowing. Let me repeat that, Webinar Express is mindblowing! How, I hear you ask? Simplicity Like Nothing Before It You know me and I love things easy, quick and comphrensive and feature rich. It takes a bit to make me say WOW but I did when it took me no more than 5 minutes to setup a complete Webinar that incorporates Social Marketing a...

  Google Really Might Be Evil … People Can Invent Worse This might not be of much interest to many of the readers to this site but I thought I’d pen something that’s dear to my heart – if you don’t know what SEO is, move along … move along. A few days ago, Google rolled out another of it’s world impacting algorithms. They’ve been steadily fine tuning their search and ranking code in an endevour to what they say makes for a fairer playing field for the production of high quality content as opposed to scoring backlinks from other sites. These backlinks have always been reputed to be of equal importance and I dare say, Google promoted this fact until recently. In the past, this has meant people also invented ways to scam the Google system by paying for high quality backlinks or devising other methods to obtain them … read ‘Link Farms’ and ‘Link Directories’. Google has now changed that. Their algorithm now d...

Helping You Remove the Dreaded Google Penalty Slap Follow these guidelines to get the Google Penalty removed faster. Way back in February 2012, my GeekandJock Relationship Blog site was nailed by Google’s Quality Guidelines team as having ‘inorganic’ back-links. Like many Webmasters at the time, I wanted the quality content and relationship and dating help that I was producing to get into the hands of as many people as I could. The site wasn’t, at the time, geared to produce an income , though that was obviously the aim in the long term. I was engaged in common practise of peppering other websites with back-links that, in hindsight, wasn’t natural and the site paid the price. Real bad. Google Isn’t Forthcoming in Back-link Removal Assistance The site, like many of yours, is a labour of love and a part-time activity. Getting the dreaded short notice, instantly had me shaking at the knees. What do I do next? In short, here’s what you need to do: ...

Helping You Remove the Dreaded Google Penalty Slap Follow these guidelines to get the Google Penalty removed faster. Way back in February 2012, my GeekandJock Relationship Blog site was nailed by Google’s Quality Guidelines team as having ‘inorganic’ back-links. Like many Webmasters at the time, I wanted the quality content and relationship and dating help that I was producing to get into the hands of as many people as I could. The site wasn’t, at the time, geared to produce an income , though that was obviously the aim in the long term. I was engaged in common practise of peppering other websites with back-links that, in hindsight, wasn’t natural and the site paid the price. Real bad. Google Isn’t Forthcoming in Back-link Removal Assistance The site, like many of yours, is a labour of love and a part-time activity. Getting the dreaded short notice, instantly had me shaking at the knees. What do I do next? In short, here’s what you need to do: ...

Webinar Express – Goodbye to GoToWebinar Forever! Every once in a while, a product comes along that literally changes the course of an entire marketplace. Google did it with Online Advertising Apple did it with the iPhone Well, for far too long, Online Webinars have been expensive and very clunky to use. I tried working with GoToWebinar 12 months ago and it was a nightmare to use and equally so to record and store for later use. I gave up in utter frustration. GoToWebinar and their fellow online webinar businesses are about to go out of business, seriously. Webinar Express is a WordPress plugin that has only just entered the market and it is mindblowing. Let me repeat that, Webinar Express is mindblowing! How, I hear you ask? Simplicity Like Nothing Before It You know me and I love things easy, quick and comphrensive and feature rich. It takes a bit to make me say WOW but I did when it took me no more than 5 minutes to setup a complete Webinar that incorporates Social Marketing a...