Webmaster Blog

Regular readers know who am I – Kaloyan Banev from Bulgaria, SEO practitioner since 1999 founder of WebmaisterPro.com – social network for webmasters. I have worked for companies on 4 continents as SEO supervisor or consultant. I don't claim that I am the best SEO, but I definitely know my job well, as I have work through more than 50 major algorithmic updates released by Google.Just decided to point young SEOs and even SEO experts that thing that, they might have lost the path, honestly I personally think that this happen very often in search engine optimization practice. Top SEO Mistakes and Myths Trusting the Wrong Source of Information Trusting the wrong source is quite common and probably 90% of SEO guides are very misleading as those are often written by article writers and bloggers that aren't SEOs. Often misleading guides appear in trusted forums, even at WebmaisterPro, there are many “not so true” articles regarding SEO submitted by our members on our blog platform. Doing Only On-page or Off-page Optimization Not much to say, both need to go hand in hand, if off-page optimization is the fuel, on-page optimization is the engine. Using Expensive Software Truth to be told, using...

Don’t Shoot Yourself In The Foot Many businesses put a great deal of time and money into making a brand new shiny website and then sit back waiting for the sales to come flooding in. Sadly it’s not quite as easy as all that, even if your website looks great there could still be a few aspects that are stopping it from being successful within Google and other search engines. So what are these factors that are stopping your website from cementing a Google top spot and turning your business into an all-conquering force of nature? Well at least generating some sales, but I like to aim high. Onsite Advertising When you own a website it can be very tempting to sell advertising space, it’s money for doing nothing right? Well it may seem pretty attractive but your side could end up suffering because of it. Advertising within a website is widely considered to be one of the factors that Google takes into consideration when ranking a site within its search engine. If you website has lots of adverts all over the page making it hard to concentrate on your own content then  you can be pretty sure that this will...