Category Archives: Panda Feed Subscription

• Overoptimization and Penguin: How Much is Too Much?

  Jason McDonald, Ph.D September 7, 2015

  

  Question. I recently purchased your SEO Fitness Workbook 2015 edition, and I was reading the section on page tags. In that section, you mentioned putting the target keyword in the title tag, image alt tag, and meta description.... Read more »

• SEO Panda and Keyword Stuffing Updates

  Jason McDonald, Ph.D November 1, 2013

  

  Q: You mentioned that in some of the previous updates (Penguin and/or Panda) that we can get penalized for having too many keywords in the content. What is the rule of thumb for having keywords in header... Read more »

• Is COMMA, COMMA, COMMA Bad Form for On Page SEO, Post-Panda?

  Jason McDonald, Ph.D October 7, 2013

  

  Question: Does a list of served cities with a billion commas in a list black flag Google in any way or a ton of keywords separated by commas? (RE: ~.com) Answer. If you were a Google programmer... Read more »

• Alternatives to the Keyword Planner from Google

  Jason McDonald, Ph.D September 11, 2013

  

  Question: Q: My website was hacked and the former developer got me blacklisted from SEO through spam. I My rank fell from 5 to 0.5 in 2 months. I didn’t realize it for a year. Once discovered... Read more »

• Duplicate Content and Doorway Pages: Some Thoughts

  Jason McDonald, Ph.D June 21, 2013

  

  Q. I recall from your class at Academy X a discussion about creating pages with duplicate content where a certain percentage of the text needs to be different in order for google’s search engine crawlers not to... Read more »

• How To Recover from Google’s Panda and Penguin Update

  Jason McDonald, Ph.D June 16, 2013

  

  Q: Are there cases when Google doesn’t like what’s going on with a website and they remove you from searches?  For example, if Panda finds that your copying content from another sites could that be used to... Read more »

• Is article spinning good for SEO, what about the penguin update and article spinning?

  Jason McDonald, Ph.D April 16, 2013

  

  Question: Is it a good prectice to spin our articles, writing thousands of articles is impossible? Question: What is a corporate email? Answer: Content or article spinning is NOT RECOMMENDED. Article spinners simply take ONE article and... Read more »

• What is content or article spinning? Is it bad for SEO after the penguin update?

  Jason McDonald, Ph.D April 16, 2013

  

  Question: What are your thoughts on content spinners? Answer: Content or article spinning is NOT RECOMMENDED. Article spinners simply take ONE article and then do substitutions usually at a synonym levels. So for example, they would take... Read more »

• Top trends in 2013 for SEO? What are they?

  Jason McDonald, Ph.D March 15, 2013

  

  Question: What do you forsee as any emerging trends in SEO? Answer: There are many emerging trends in search engine optimization. This is a particularly exciting time to be involved in Internet marketing, because we are seeing... Read more »

• Killer post-Penguin and post-Panda. Any?

  Jason McDonald, Ph.D December 3, 2012

  

  Question: After the infamous Penguin and Panda updates, are there any killer SEO tips left? Answer: Killer SEO tips, that sounds kinda scary. Both the Google Penguin update for 2012 and the Panda update were really targeting... Read more »