About 4 years ago my blog “Howto Spotter” went from visual page rank 5 to page rank 3. Google “Love” seem to have run out for me at that point. And while it actually didn’t impact my traffic or ability to rank for keywords – it did kill my ability to sell advertising space on this blog and since than I was primarily using affiliate ads on my blog.

While I did signup for “Text Link Ads” marketplace network, and it was one of the more popular and one that got hit by Google when they decided to punish link selling – I never actually participated in selling, kind of lost interest in it before I could sell anything.

Since then I have tried multiple things to address the ranking all to no avail as my page rank remained unchanged. While as mentioned above – my ability to rank and my traffic didn’t get impacted – growth did slow down, although it could be attributed to other factors as well. This post is a recount of my attempts to re-mediate the problem, perhaps it will help you if you are in same situation…

As you perhaps might know WordCamp in San Francisco is quite an event and a lot of great presentations were made and published already on http://wordpress.tv.

Today I want to share a video presentation with you that I think should help you see your own blog from slightly different perspective – Google. Matt Cuts from web spam team in Google shares his insights on The Good and The Bad things about WordPress.

Click to see the video below…

It’s not a big secret that properly optimized for Search Engines blog and individual blog posts will lead to generating gobs of free traffic via achieving a better positioning in Search Engine Results. There are so many products and guides on the topic of SEO that the term itself has become overused and what is even more upsetting misrepresented.

Search Engine Optimization for Google is really not that hard but when people try to game the system and then share their results, so called “black hat” seo they create more confusion then needs to be. As search engines, including Google move more and more toward semantic search results – “white hat seo” will always take precedence and win. In this post I want to share 2 video from a Google’s own Matt Cutt’s on proper SEO optimization from WordPress camp in San Francisco earlier this year.