5 Types of Sites That Could Benefit from Broken Link Building by @AlesiaKrush
Like a prodigal family member, broken link building got re-embraced by SEOs after the series of Google algorithm updates known as Penguin. Google Penguin and a slew of manual actions Google took...
View ArticleWhat I Learnt From Beating Google’s First Update of 2014 by @SearchHighway
For those of us who track our own websites, you may have noticed a Google update roll out on the 8th of January that’s been causing large fluctuations in the SERPs since then. This was the 6th largest...
View ArticleThe Definitive Guide to Recovering From a Manual Search Penalty by...
A search penalty is a fearsome thing. It’s the grown-up equivalent of “come to the principal’s office,” but the consequences are far worse. Once you’ve been hit with a manual penalty from Google, what...
View ArticleAfter Guest Blogging…What’s Left for “Safe” Link Building? by @marceladevivo
Image Courtesy of Shutterstock As link building tactics get shot down by the Big G, online marketers are left wondering what’s left. Guest blogging has been devalued, alongside every other known...
View Article3 Steps to Take When You Suspect an Algorithmic Penalty From Google by...
The dreaded Google penalty. It can strike you out of the blue quickly, and is very unpleasant to deal with. In the face of plummeting web traffic, you have to pinpoint the cause and then take steps to...
View ArticleDid Matt Cutts Endorse Rap Genius Link Spam?
On TWIG Matt Cutts spoke about the importance of defunding spammers & breaking their spirits. If you want to stop spam, the most straight forward way to do it is to deny people money because they...
View ArticlePosts with the Highest Pageviews on Search Engine Journal for 2013 by...
It’s amazing how much has changed in just 365 days. What was popular with visitors? Tactical, plain-speaking advice with regards to SEO, social media and Facebook in particular. Also racking up the...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: December 27, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Video Recap of Weekly...
View ArticleSearchCap: The Day In Search, December 27, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How To Understand And Optimize AdWords Search Partners Data...
View Article10 Old School Matt Cutts Videos You Need to Watch by @backlinko
When TheShortCutts.com launched a few months ago, it set off a viral explosion powder keg in the SEO world. Although only a few months old, the site’s homepage has over 900 backlinks and a Page...
View ArticleVideo Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 27, 2013
Hope everyone had a nice Christmas holiday! This week, Google penalized Rap Genius for link schemes after being outed. Google has not taken action on Amazon for their footer link spam. Did you know...
View ArticleGoogle’s Matt Cutts Tells Webmaster The Penguin Algorithm Is Impacting Rankings
It seems like Google is on a trend of telling webmasters which algorithms are impacting their site the most, at least in a negative way. The other day a Googler told a webmaster that Panda was hurting...
View ArticleDaily Blogging is Broke Blogging by @jeremy_page
We live in a world where most bloggers are broke and frustrated, but it does not have to be that way. Blogging, the Old Way A few years ago, bloggers were told to put out frequent (multiple posts per...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: December 24, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Christmas Eve Logos...
View ArticleWhen You Have Bad Links Impacting Your Google Rankings, Which Do You Remove?
I see this all the time, a forum thread, where a webmaster knows his rankings are suffering in Google because he was hit by Penguin because he has a lot of really bad, manipulative links. A...
View ArticleSearch Engine Land’s Most-Shared Stories on Facebook for 2013: How To Survive...
Search marketing friends — welcome, welcome! It’s time for another installment of our Search Engine Land Year In Review series. We’ve toured through the top news stories and those that were most ed –...
View ArticleMatt Cutts: Google’s Hummingbird Algorithm Affects 90% Of Searches
I keep coming back to this episode 227 from TWiG and in the video, Matt Cutts talked about the Hummingbird algorithm at exactly one hour and twenty minutes into the video. He spent maybe a minute or so...
View ArticleSearch Engine Land’s Most-Shared Stories on Twitter for 2013: Google, Google,...
Welcome back, search marketing friends, to the second installment of our Search Engine Land Year In Review series. So far, you’ve seen the run-down of our top news stories to break in 2013 — now,...
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