Another Google update is underway. Backlinks and pagerank are being recalculated by Google. Time to see all your hard work paying off. You should now begin seeing changes.

Time to start fresh again! We now have 3 to 4 months until the next update.

This is a great time to get busy building your backlinks and let them develop before the next update.

Here is a top 1000 Google SERP checking tool that you may find helpful.

http://www.seoserp.com/web_tools/google_top_1000_serps_checker.asp

Just a reminder, don’t for get to submit and re-submit your sitemap to the top search engines.

Google - http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools

MSN - http://webmaster.live.com/

Yahoo - http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

A few days after placing your order you may like to check on your backlinks. There is a simple way to do this that will give you a general idea of your new backlink count. Official backlink counting for google is done when Google updates; which is roughly every 3 to 4 months.

You can get a good idea of your backlinks by using a tool called Backlink Watch.

I have had a few people ask recently about the changes made with the way Google views subdomains. Let me see if I can clear up some of the confusion.

Basically sites subdomains will be treated as folders except for user based sites like user.wordpress.com ect.

User based subdomains will still be counted as backlinks,you can check this yourself by visiting google and typing link:google.com – You will see that google itself has many backlinks from user based subdomains.

Google’s own Matt Cutts had something to say on the subject that really helps to clarify the situation.

For several years Google has used something called “host crowding,” which means that Google will show up to two results from each hostname/subdomain of a domain name. That approach works very well to show 1-2 results from a subdomain, but we did hear complaints that for some types of searches (e.g. esoteric or long-tail searches), Google could return a search page with lots of results all from one domain. In the last few weeks we changed our algorithms to make that less likely to happen

Hope this helps you to better understand the changes that have been made.