We expect that Google will learn from its previous mistakes and the shortcomings of Facebook in regards to Privacy. Google Me will be based on the current Facebook model and possibly add more features that no one really thought of yet. Google employs some of the best technology brain in the world, I am sure they will come up with something hot and something that will click, I heard this is on high priority. I am expecting a beta version of Google Me will come out later this year, lets wait and see!

How did I do it? Let me share something with you without revealing all.. I have used the power of “link popularity”. What is Link popularity?  It’s one of the major factor in the latest Google algorithm, it’s a way of spreading the word about your website to other websites using your main keywords, in my case “seo consultant” and “seo professional”.  When you increase your link popularity, you will climb up the rank ladder quickly, but you have to do it right, you have to do as per Google standards and policy. Dont SPAM, be relevant and be natural. Most of all be patient. This is also not applicable to all keywords, you must do an extensive research before using this method, because you might be battling against the big guns, sites with high link authorities.  Link Authority >>>> Link Popularity, remember that. If you are going up against these folks, it will take longer and it will take more than Link Popularity to outranked them. If you really need some professional advice and assistance, do not hesitate to contact me.

I have also launched a new Check Google Rank SEO Tool called MySiteSERP, you can find that here: www.mysiteserp.com enjoy!

But overall it is not really that bad. Why? Because webmasters, online business owners with legitimate websites, that have performed ethical SEO have been rewarded for their hard works and efforts. That’s where the saying “make a website for users not for search engine” applies. Based on my observation, Google have taken out a lot of value to backlinks that were acheived unethically (hello cheap/free blog comments). They have also penalized websites that were made for ranking manipulation, specially those with duplicate contents or worse, those who belong to the duplicate content autoblog networks.

So, if your experience with the latest Google Caffeine update is not a very pleasant one, dont blame Google… Re-think your strategy, maybe the fault is in you. Another reason might be that your competitions have done a tremendous ethical link building campaign and you’ve got left behind. Always remember to do the right thing and patience is a virtue. You cant get stable ranking overnight, it takes a lot of time, effort, proper planning and execution. Google Caffeine is now watching.. Good luck!

Note: Some of the clients that I have who have benefited from the Google Update are from the finance sector like penny stocks and another one is from the marketing section like mailing lists

Normally, Google rolls out Caffeine datasets to 1 or 2 datacenters and it stays there for about 5 hours or so for testing purposes, this usually stirs excitement in the Webmaster community but that excitement turned into disappointment when Google pulled out those caffeine datasets results… I’ve learned from this lesson, I used to be one of the webmasters who celebrate but after seeing this over and over again in the past 3 months, I knew it was just a test and Google was just teasing us.

But yesterday, it was a completely different story, I could probably say this might be it, what almost every webmasters are waiting for. Google has rolled out caffeine datasets to all its datacenters and it hasn’t change in the last 24 hours, it is still changing slightly but in a caffeine way, they are slowly inserting caffeine results. As I have posted in one of the Webmaster forums, Google is rolling out caffeine slowly, I quoted:

Yep they are everywhere guys, but it is being rollout slowly.. For example

6 hours ago:
keyword #1: 7th place
keyword #2: 8th place
keyword #3: 96th place

3 hours ago:
keyword #1: 2nd place
keyword #2: 8th place
keyword #3: 96th place

1 hour ago:
keyword #1: 2nd place
keyword #2: 2nd place
keyword #3: 15th place

these are real result changes.. it doesnt happen all at once, its rolling out slowly from my observation

Whatever this is, it is looking pretty good, especially to those who have performed legit whitehat SEO to their own site and to their client’s websites. I will give it till the end of the week till I come up with my own official thoughts about this update, but so far so good, everything is pointing towards caffeine. I will keep you all posted.

Click on the image above for a larger view and you will easily noticed the difference.

• New texture of the Google logo
• The main structure of the homepage
• The side menus with icons
• and more..

The first travel site I’ve used is Surfer Tour, it is a travel site that provide reviews of some of the best beaches in the world, from Australia to Mexico. The other one is called Final Destination, its a site that gives tourist information about the different cities of Europe. Surfer tour’s last cached in Google was in the 13th of February whilst Final Destination’s last cache was last 10th of February. I am hoping that this blog post experiment will pave way for these travel sites to get indexed and the crawlers will run past the landing pages links within these sites. I am hoping final destination will get re-indexed first.

Then one time I came across SEOMoz’s website and started using all the online SEO tools they have. I am surprised how good those tools are, especially the new one that they have called OpenSiteExplorer. So without hesitation I have subcribed at once to the Pro account which cost me $79.00/month. So far so good I am ripping the benefits of the Pro account, it allows me to analyze in more detail and depth my client’s sites and their competitions sites. It let me see the factors I couldn’t see before using those first 2 tools I have mentioned and using the manual way (ex: site:website.com in google and others). I am still in the middle of exploring  every feature of the SEOMoz Pro tool and so far everything is looking great and my investment is well worth. I will probably still get either WebCEO or AWR to complement this and to give me all the information I need in ranking my client’s sites and outranking their competitions. I recommend this tool to all SEO Professionals out there who want’s to be ahead in the SEO Industry. But remember, these tools are only complementary, you still need to come up with an SEO strategy after analyzing all the data you’ve got from these tools.

Note: Right now I am doing an experiment if this vacation rental landing page will get index really quick

The only motivation why these webmasters do this is to make money. Make money by selling blogposts and links to newbies. These newbies are those who are beginners with SEO and webmasters with no clues. Believe me there are so many of them out there and they are not getting what their money is worth. So as much as you can, avoid duplicate contents in your websites, do not purchase links from these duplicated sites and to be safe, do not purchase links at all. Build your links naturally and be patient. You will rip the fruits of your labour when the right time comes.

Google gives a lot of importance to website contents; this is the main reason why people visit a website, to read something new and interesting information, not something that they have seen or read before. There are a lot of websites out there who are using or republishing contents from other website source, this degrades the quality of information on the web. Imagine if you searched for “electric toothbrush” (this is the first thing that came to my head while I am writing this post) and then you will see the first group of search results telling you the same thing over and over again, say for example all the website contents states “how an electric toothbrush work”, it just make your internet experience really boring and annoying.

That is why when you are starting a new website or working on your existing site, make sure you give high regards to your website’s content. Make sure your contents are unique and have really good high quality information. By doing this not only you will attract a lot of visitors/traffic but you will also attract the most important entity of the Internet; Google!

What I will be doing for the next few weeks is to maintain my rank and even aim for that #1 spot. I will get my copywriters to write me some very nice unique articles that I can use for SEO purposes to push my website to the Top 3, and even better #1. I will come up with a new SEO strategy that I will implement in the next 2-4 weeks, so hopefully within 6-8 weeks I will reach #1.  Wish me luck