About Preston Van Dyke

Preston's addictions include SEO, Web Development, Diet Coke and Online TV.

Preston first got into the SEO industry providing consulting in Internet Marketing, Market Research and Web Development at Thrive. While there, freelancing became second nature—building and marketing websites for local based businesses.

Currently as the Director of search engine optimization at SEO.com, Preston uses his experience to create new and creative content marketing strategies and oversees all aspects of SEO and internet marketing for large enterprise businesses.

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Are Google's Algorithms Running Faster Than They Can? A Look at the New Link Disavow Tool

A Look at the New Link Disavow Tool

About two weeks ago Google launched a link disavow tool. The purpose of the tool is to suggest to Google to disavow bad links to a website for webmasters who have either received a webmaster report with a notice of unnatural links or who have been impacted by the Penguin algorithm update. (If you’re not [...]

Are Google’s Algorithms Running Faster Than They Can? A Look at the New Link Disavow Tool

A Look at the New Link Disavow Tool

About two weeks ago Google launched a link disavow tool. The purpose of the tool is to suggest to Google to disavow bad links to a website for webmasters who have either received a webmaster report with a notice of unnatural links or who have been impacted by the Penguin algorithm update. (If you’re not [...]

Quick Tips on Google Algorithm Impact Detection & Resolution

Quick Tips on Google Algorithm Impact Detection & Resolution

Panda Google Algorithm Impact: How To Know If Your Website Was Affected To identify if your site has been impacted by any of the Panda updates you will need two things: First, you’ll need to know which date the specific Panda update in mind has occurred. You can get these dates from a number of different places. [...]

Quick Tips on Google Algorithm Impact Detection & Resolution

Quick Tips on Google Algorithm Impact Detection & Resolution

Panda Google Algorithm Impact: How To Know If Your Website Was Affected To identify if your site has been impacted by any of the Panda updates you will need two things: First, you’ll need to know which date the specific Panda update in mind has occurred. You can get these dates from a number of different places. [...]

The Best Way To Develop an Optimized Mobile Website

The Best Way To Develop an Optimized Mobile Website

The mobile search market is fast rising. Google searches that come from mobile devices now make up 15% of total Google search volume. This rate of growth is expected to continue, and Google continues to maintain the lion share (95%) of all mobile queries. Source: http://www.seo.com/blog/using-mobile-search-on-vacation-infographic/ These two factors alone are incentive enough make an optimized [...]

4 Unmatched Sources To Track Google Algorithm Updates

4 Unmatched Sources To Track Google Algorithm Updates

It’s Never Been Easier To Track Google Algorithm Updates It is almost impossible to keep up with every single change in the Google search algorithm, at least on your own. So, here are four sources to help you keep up with and track Google algorithm updates, as well as what they mean for your business. [...]

Keyword Research In 15 Minutes Or Less

Keyword Research In 15 Minutes Or Less

There is no doubt extensive and detailed keyword research has its place. If you haven’t been exposed to effective processes for vast keyword research I’d recommend diving into my “explode your keyword list right” series. But sometimes keyword research should be quick and dirty. Exactness is not always essential and you don’t need mounds of data [...]

Google Webmaster Guidelines Update: Cracking Down On Rich Snippets

Google Webmaster Guidelines Update Cracking Down On Rich Snippets

Rich Snippets Get Sent To The Corner In the past Google has been fairly slow in their response and resolution for spammy approaches to organic marketing. This is not one of those cases. It was just last July (2011) when Google, Bing & Yahoo officially agreed to conform to one form of structured data. The [...]

Search Engine Optimization vs. User Experience Optimization

Search Engine Optimization vs. User Experience Optimization

The discussion of whether user experience optimization should take priority, or even in place of search engine optimization, is not necessarily a new one, but it is one of the most important conversations we could be engaging in right now. My goal here is to explain that both approaches—while they have crossover and tend to [...]

What Makes a Good Domain Name? [Video FAQ]

What Makes A Good Domain Name

Determining a good domain name comes down to 3 different approaches. They are brand, brand plus keyword, or simply a exact or broad match keyword domain. Of these 3 choices the most ideal approach is the second. One in which you can obtain a domain that has all the needed aspects of a well branded [...]

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