Most of us would have participated in a business meeting in some form and some of us would have taken minutes or even chaired the meeting. We can all recall someone being late to the meeting and a meeting not finishing on time. So what
Matt Cutts who is a head of Google’s search quality (anti-spam) team has announced the latest changes that Google is going to implement in the next few months that will be permanent (at least for some time). Matt is answering the question that is on
It’d be virtually impossible to find a person who hasn’t given feedback of some sort. Unsolicited feedback could be called ‘a lecture’ since the person receiving it didn’t ask for it! Most of us have been caught at lecturing others, however what happens when you
A question was asked of Matt Cuts who is the head of Google search quality team as to what in his opinion are the top 5 mistakes when it comes to looking after your own website or if contracting for a customer. For those who
Our working and personal every-day lives are full of situations where we need to convey a specific message across that will make the other person or group of people follow your advice. Even if you are somebody’s reporting manager, getting people to produce desirable results
Not claiming this article to be a be-all and end-all of effective team building, however here are some of the team-building 101 tips I acquired in my decade plus long career while working some of the biggest multi-national companies. Pick the right person in the
Whether we realise it or not, we’ve all been guilty of not listening enough. After all it seems easier to present your thoughts or arguments before we’ve even listened to the other person. One thing we all agree on is that we’d like to become
With all the changes our friends at Google are implementing to their algorithm (500 every year, they tell us), it is important to know the latest thinking on creating quality content on your website. Be it a blog post, article or a website page, ‘quality
As we look at different techniques (all white-hat, legal and Google friendly) to future proof your website against all new algorithmic updates, we arrive at what’s called a long tail SEO. In a nutshell, long tail would be a collection of multiple worded phrases that
Webmasters from all around the world are reporting that websites under their control are increasingly receiving Google’s unnatural link profile penalty. This penalty seems to be a warning only at the beginning, however should ‘unnatural linking’ continue, websites are risking being de-indexed. The message received
Although with the release of Google’s latest algorithms code named Penguin and Panda that arguably cleaned up search engine results pages to a certain extent, the easiest way to get your rankings up is by having lots of incoming links. The more of those links
If you are a local business owner or you are an SEO services provider for a traditional business and would like to see that business on the first page of search engines, stick around as here is what works and what doesn’t work that well