SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 22, 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: Google Now Gains Car Rental, Concert Tickets, Reminders While...
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Case Study: $5 Link Building by @barriesmithii
It’s 2013. Google’s Penguin algorithm update has long since been released, established and written about. The whole internet, every reputable SEO company and blog have discussed it down to its finest...
View ArticleSearchCap: The Day In Search, August 23, 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: Bing Says Goodbye to Bing Shopping, Hello Product Search With...
View ArticleGoogle’s Recent Webmaster Guideline Changes: What You Need to Know by...
The brains at Google are always working to make the web a place where users produce content for each other, not just for web crawlers. They recently changed their Link Schemes section to include...
View ArticleGoogle Is Wrong! The Link Is Natural!
There are two common sayings you’ve all heard in this field. The first is, “no one is perfect” and the second is, “never tell Google they are wrong.” As you can imagine, they don’t go well together. No...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Guide to Google Analytics Goals and Funnels
Google Analytics Goals allow you to determine whether or not you are meeting your objectives. With each Goal completed by a user, your Google Analytics account logs a conversion. There are different...
View Article30 day challenge: better email handling
Some relatives were visiting this past week, so my inbox has a triple digit backlog. That’s after aggressive pruning of mailing lists and so on. Nearly all of those emails mention me in a “to:” or...
View ArticleThe 101 on Content Syndication: Who, What, Where, When, and Why by @highervis
Creating great content is, unfortunately, just half the battle for small businesses. Because Google has put such a huge weight on quality content both on your site as well as on other sites across the...
View ArticleJim Boykin Interview
Jim Boykin has been a longtime friend & was one of the early SEOs who was ahead of the game back in the day. While many people have came and went, Jim remains as relevant as ever today. We...
View ArticleGoogle May Be Updating Their Algorithm But They Won’t Confirm It
Today, September 4th, and last week, August 21st, there were huge spikes in chatter amongst the SEO and webmasters about the Google search results shifting and changing. In short, many SEOs and...
View Article72% Were Hit By Google’s Penguin 1.0 Or 2.0 Algorithm
Google’s 2.0 Penguin update went live over 3 months ago and we ran a poll shortly after asking how many of you were impacted by this Penguin update. We had almost 1,500 responses since launching the...
View ArticleOnly 7% Claim Full Recovery From Google’s Penguin 2.0 Update
Yesterday we covered the poll results of those impacted by Penguin 2.0 and today I wanted to share the results from our June poll asking how many of you recovered from the Penguin 2.0 update. We had...
View ArticleHow Google Collects Search Quality Data On Your Site by @LeadersWin
It’s little known that Google was never meant to be a company. In fact, in 1998 Vinod Khosla (one of the first investors in Google) managed to convince Larry Page and Sergey Brin to sell their...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: September 9, 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: Google Offering Links...
View ArticleQuality Content Boosts Brand Awareness and Engagement by @murraynewlands
I’m here with Chase McMichael, the CEO and Co-Founder of InfiniGraph. He recently provided me with a content engagement analysis report regarding content marketing and automation titans. Through the...
View ArticleMatt Cutts Tells You What To Do If Your Site Was Hit By Panda by @mattsouthern
Google has recently integrated Panda into its normal indexing process. As a result, many site owners are concerned how this will affect them. Specifically, site owners are asking how to know whether...
View ArticleThe Sad State of My Search Traffic After Disavowing 35,000 Links
On April 3, 2013 I disavowed every link to this website I could find through Google Webmaster Tools. 35,000 links. Gone. It was an experiment, documented on Moz, to better understand how Google’s...
View Article5 Directory Submission Ideas for Local and Global Online Businesses by...
Submitting the URL of a site to online directories has been a viable SEO tactic as well as a well-justified promo practice since the early days of Internet marketing. It has been abused to an extent,...
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