Author Archives: Jeremy Dearringer

About Jeremy Dearringer

Jeremy is the Search Engine Optimization Director of Research and Development for Slingshot SEO. Slingshot SEO is an Indianapolis SEO company, employing over 80 search engine optimization experts both in Indiana and around the United States. Building on more than a decade of search engine research, Slingshot has ranked clients? websites on the first page of Google and other major search engines for thousands of competitive keywords.

How Comments Impact Search Engine Rank

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Does commenting on other blogs help my search engine ranking? Google’s ranking algorithm weighs heavily on relevant links back to your site. Since links back to your site help, wouldn’t it make sense that commenting and leaving your links everywhere would benefit your site? Not exactly. In this recent video, Matt Cutts (Search Quality for Google) discusses the potential risks of allowing users to post comments with link spam on your blog. You have control over the content on your … Continue reading →

SEO: 10 Link Temptations To Avoid

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Google’s gold standard of whether or not a website should be ranked well continues to change over time, but for quite a while the best method has gone unchanged… relevant backlinks from legitimate, authoritative sites. On page Search Engine Optimization and lots of great content may get your site indexed for specific keywords, but quality backlinks will drive up its rank. Since backlinks have become a known commodity, many linking scams and services continue to pop up all over the … Continue reading →