SEO Scams and Fraud

There have been a few posts recently about all the fly-by-night SEO scammers that are giving the entire industry a bad name.  Here is an example of one on DigitalPoint forums and I have seen this style of SEO scam run dozens of time over the past few weeks. Here is their sales pitch: Keyword Read more about SEO Scams and Fraud[…]

Dangers of Guaranteed SEO Results

I have heard it so many times from prospective clients, “but so-and-so at ProSEO.com promises page one or number one results in 1/2/3/6 months or they will refund my money, will you offer the same?” Guaranteed ranking is one of the biggest scams out there right now and anyone that offers it is not a Read more about Dangers of Guaranteed SEO Results[…]

Adsense Conversion Difficulties

Here is a new little series of posts I am starting, best of Yahoo answers.   When I have a bit of free time I try and answer some questions there, I will post some that recieved ‘best’ answer. Question: I have run google Ads. sense on my site for 10days, and this is the result? Read more about Adsense Conversion Difficulties[…]

Google making ‘nice’ with SEO’s

I read a good informative post by Doug Caverly at WebProNews.com, it talks about some changes Google has recently made to their section on “What’s an SEO?  It seems Google has taken down their warnings about SEO’s a few notches. The old version mentioned “a few unethical SEOs” in the fourth line and then jumped Read more about Google making ‘nice’ with SEO’s[…]

Sneaky Webmasters can Sink their Competition

There have been rumors of such techniques floating around for ages and there are even some black-hat SEO’s that specialize in this type of “link bombing”.  The gist of the deal is that you create organically or through purchase ‘bad’ links to your competitor’s websites in hopes of causing their search engine rank position to Read more about Sneaky Webmasters can Sink their Competition[…]

Yahoo! Busy Beaver

Yahoo has been busy as a beaver (as we Canadians would say) with a slew of new announcements yesterday. The most interesting one is the launch of Yahoo! Circular, an online retail marketing program modeled after newspaper circulars/inserts.  This activity blitz comes just as Yahoo’s annual shareholder meeting was set for August 1 where Corporate Read more about Yahoo! Busy Beaver[…]

Quick SEO results

For those of you following my progress you would know that I have been doing SEO for about 3 years but only for in-house clients and my own websites.  I recently decided to take on a few new projects, hence the development of this site.  www.createdigitalgrowth.com first went live on May 9, 2008, just over a week Read more about Quick SEO results[…]