Can't Google Just Not Count Those Bad Links?

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December 4, 2014 Can't Google Just Not Count Those Bad Links?    In the last few years Brick Marketing has helped several websites diagnose and work through their manual or algorithmic penalties. If you have never had to deal with a Google penalty consider yourself lucky! It's an absolutely miserable experience even when you do know exactly what went wrong. It's twice as bad when you're not certain and taking wild shots in the dark in hopes of recovery. One client (before they worked with us) spent two years trying to get a Penguin penalty lifted and it cost them millions of dollars in revenue in the interim. And while they admit they did some less than perfectly white hat things, only 500 of their fifteen thousand links or so were questionable, so where they hit so hard? CLICK HERE TO READ MORE SEO Isn't a Be All And End All Solution   SEO is important. There's no denying that. Search engine optimization tactics are what help to improve the search engine presence of a website and let's face it, the search engines are where people turn to when they are looking for the products or services that you are trying to sell. If you can't be found in the search engines, it diminishes your earning potential. Despite what naysayers want you to believe, SEO certainly isn't dead.   CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Name Your Images Before Uploading Them   While images on a site usually fall under the domain of website design, there is one component of adding images to your site that also involves web development - its code. Whenever you upload an image (i.e. a JPEG or a PNG file), it is translated into HTML code on the back end of the site. Even though your images are visual components and not text on the front end of the site, each image involves some coding on the back end. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE  Can Social Media Really Help You Sell? It's important to remember that, for the most part, people don't turn to social media channels with the end-goal of pulling out their credit card. They go to Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest to share photos and updates, check-in with friends, post events, read news, and more. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE     Find the Amount of Content That's "Just Right"   We've all heard the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. She sneaks into the house of three bears and tries their porridge, chairs, and beds only finding one of the three in each instance to be "just right". The options that were "just wrong" were the extremes. The hot and cold porridge. The small and large chairs. The hard and soft beds. When it comes to content creation we recommend that website owners find the amount that's "just right".   CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Connect With Brick Marketing:

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