Training SEO: 3 Tips To Build Your Team’s Skills
Hiring a talented team is just the start. How to structure ongoing training to ensure your company’s SEOs keep up with the latest developments in the space.
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Google Image Search Bug Leads To Duplicate Russian Auto Accident Images In Search Results
This morning, for a few hours, searchers looking for images using Google Image search were presented with an image of a Russian automobile accident in the search results. Searching for dogs to cats, screen shots to flowers and diapers to pornography we…
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Page One Power is the world’s finest link building firm, and we’re offering you a $500 discount on your first month of service. Our highly-educated, in-house writers, researchers and outreach specialists are the best in the business. We’re fully committed to transparency and we only build…
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How To Prove The Value Of SEO Without Drowning In Data
Having a tough time communicating the value of SEO to your C-Suite? Erin Everhart provides some tips on how to tackle this common issue.
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New Google Easter Egg For SEO Geeks: Server Status 418, I’m A Teapot
Google has a new easter egg, mostly designed for server geeks and SEO geeks, at google.com/teapot. The page itself serves up an 418 response code, which is a server status code, named “I’m a teapot.” The 418 code itself was an April Fools Joke from 1998 and is not meant to be…
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Sponsored Message: The Future of Link Building
5 Important Messages For SEOs. This white paper from Page One Power contains 5 important messages for SEOs: Links are still the core of Google’s search algorithm. Link building and content marketing are fundamentally different. Content marketing is difficult to do well. Link building can…
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Google DMCA Notices Reach Record High With 7.8 Million Link Removal Requests Filed In One Week
Going on Google’s recent takedown notice numbers, it looks as if the site may be spending as much time on link removal requests as it is algorithm updates. According to TorrentFreak, Google is now processing an average of more than a million takedown requests a day, an enormous increase from…
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Google Sending Invalid Error Notices Of Redirecting Smartphone Users To Homepage
A couple weeks ago we reported that Google began sending notices to webmasters over faulty mobile redirects. This notice was to inform webmasters of notices being shown to searchers that the searcher may be redirected to the home page as opposed to the…
Google Says HTTPS Is A Ranking Signal, But It’s Not Really
Is it worth it for webmasters to switch to HTTPS in light of Google’s recent announcement?
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3 Simple Ways Email Can Drive SEO Results
While emails can’t directly impact search engine rankings, smart marketers can use email campaigns to further their SEO initiatives.
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Google Knowledge Graph Proves To Be (Brief) PR Nightmare For Major UK Brand Greggs Bakery
The UK’s Greggs Bakery took a hit recently when its logo was hi-jacked via Google’s knowledge graph, causing a short-lived PR nightmare for the brand. Anyone searching “Greggs” on Google UK would have seen a knowledge graph box that included what appeared to be the…
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Google Made 890 Improvements To Search Over The Past Year
In a Google+ post from Google’s head of search, Amit Singhal, Google shares they have made “more than 890 improvements to Google Search last year alone.” In 2009, Google told us they made between 350 to 400 changes to search and in 2010, they said they made 550 improvements to…
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How To Put The Brakes On Overzealous Link Junkies
If links are good, does that mean more links are better? Not always. Sometimes you need to push back.
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Google Targets Two European Link Networks Yesterday Morning
Over the weekend, Google has sent out mass link penalty notifications throughout Europe for those sites partaking in specific link networks with the goal of manipulating their rankings in Google. Google’s Johannes Mehlem posted on Twitter that Google has “taken action on one European…
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HubPages Acquires Squidoo: Content Migration To Begin Within A Few Weeks
Seth Godin, the founder and owner of Squidoo, announced the social content platform, has been acquired by HubPages. Squidoo was founded back in 2005, where users can create “lenses” of topics and content. Back in 2007, we did a Q&A with the founder and then in 2011 Panda hit, which…
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21 Metrics For Monitoring SEO Health
An SEO issue that goes unnoticed, even for a few days, can have a huge impact on business — so what metrics can you use to detect problems early?
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Is SEO Being Ripped Asunder?
The responsibility for SEO is being assigned to various departments. Is this a good thing or a bad thing for the state of the industry?
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Google Responds To Mass Negative SEO Extortion Emails
There are widespread reports within the industry of negative SEO extortion emails being sent to website owners, webmasters, SEOs and others. The emails are claiming that an evil SEO will ruin the site’s ranking in Google and other search engines if they do not come up and wire $1,500 to the…
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10 Hidden Gems For Finding New B2B Customers
When it comes to prospecting, you can go the easy way, or you can explore these 10 tactics that will really boost your customer acquisition efforts.
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What Is Black Hat Social Media & Does It Affect SEO?
Black hat social media is emerging quickly and spawning a new era of web spam. This affects the social media sites themselves, the users, and the businesses utilizing the site for marketing. While many people are starting to recognize this trend, there is a dearth of information on how black hat…
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