SEO 101

Penalizing Backlink Profiles; Google+ pictures in SERPs; Link Wheels and More SEO Q and A as listeners ask if Google would penalize a backlink profile which has an extremely high percentage of text links compared to other inbound links, why sometimes Google doesnt always include a G+ picture in SERPs, and finally what Ross and John think about link wheels.

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Online Tools to Test Page Load Times; Merging Websites; Experience with Google Disavow Tool as Ross answers questions from the SEO 101 Google Plus Community. Also find out how 301 redirects and content delivery networks play into the conversation.

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Cheap Link Building, Crappy SEO Pitches, RSS Syndication sites, CDNs, Duplicate Content and more as Ross and John run through listener questions. Plus, Has Google given any guidance since Panda on quotes? Also, they discuss online tools to test page load times.

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Google Navigation Changes To Webmaster Tools; Google Warning External Keyword Tool Shut Down Near and Muck Rack Adds Search For Journalists By Google PageRank. Ross and John also answer a listener question on a good tool they can recommend for SEO reporting that is highly automated.

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NoFollow on Affiliate Links; Separating Google Personal and Business Accounts; Google Analytics Admin Panel Gets a Redesign; Google Patents on Author Signature Values and Authority Scores; Bing Boards Testing; Webmaster Tools Link Report Errors Fixed; Google Carousel and Changes in Local Search.

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Matt Cutts on Pandas, Penguins and Payday Loan Spam as Ross and John run through the SMX Advanced 2013 You and A Session, plus Mobile Site Speed now a big ranking factor for Mobile Search; Eric Enge Site Crawling Test from SMX; Facebook Hashtags launched.

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Continuing the discussion on how Google is attacking blog posts. Ross and John discuss AuthorRank plays a role in determining which posts (guest or not) should garner more immediate positive attention in Googles algorithm. They also discuss revealing factors such as posts with zero inline text links and a single text link in the authors biography and more.

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Predictions for Googles forthcoming attack on Guest Posts on things like AuthorRank and PageRank; Google Penguin 2 = Lame Nonevent; Matt Cutts and Advertorials and find who said If youre a brand and youre not on Google+, you're an idiot. Youre... just an idiot.

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Matt Cutts tells us What SEOs Can Expect From Google Coming Up. Ross and John comment on the latest video that runs through Penguin, Advertorials, Spammy Queries, Sophisticated Link Analysis, Improvements on Hacked Sites, Authority Boost, Panda Sympathy and more.

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Google - The Internet Police; Cross Marketing SEO with Social; Exact Match Press Release Links Still Count. Plus, Ross and guest host Scott Van Achte discuss a listener question on main problems/pains in running an SEO business or being an SEO consultant.

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