About Michael Gray

Duplicate content and duplicate URLs are a high level SEO topic, that's often a challenge for many organizations to solve correctly. In this post we'll be taking a look at canonicalization, choosing the right URL, how many people get it wrong and how you should go about fixing it.

I've been building, fixing, and optimizing websites for nearly 15 years. In that time, I've seen people do some crazy things to their websites; but, more often than not, it's the simple SEO mistakes that do the most harm. In this post I'll go over the top things I've encountered over the years that do more harm than good.

How do search engines find your website? Many business owners struggle with getting their websites listed in Google because they simply don't understand how search engines work. In this post we'll be take a beginners look at how search engines work, how they find your website, and what you can do to attract their attention.

Google's policy that linking should be for editorial purposes only, and not to improve your search engine rankings has been pretty consistent for nearly a decade. There have always been gray areas, that have been open to interpretation and debate. Sometimes tactics that were perfectly fine and considered acceptable, will be abused, and be frowned upon by Google. These edge tactics can put you on the receiving end of an "Unnatural Links" warning letter in your inbox, followed by dramatic decrease in traffic.