People Still Pay for Links, Not Vague Content Marketing Strategies
This is a bit of a rant, but it’s important. Comments are welcomed below.
I wish I could see all the gasps from all the content purists looking at this headline.
But I just couldn’t hold back after the following quote from an article entitled ‘Why Content Marketing is the Only Link Building That Counts’ on Brafton:
“Content Marketing is marketing, link building is manipulation.”
So it seems as though link building is dead …
People Still Pay for Links, Not Vague Content Marketing Strategies is a post from: Point Blank SEO
Part One: Why To, and How To, Start Advertising on Twitter
Advertisers are missing out on Twitter. Due to low competition, Twitter can generate better ROI for advertisers than Google, Bing and Facebook. The data shows that Twitter is under monetized. Twitter generates very little revenue compared to Google despite a similar number of tweets and Google searches. Google Twitter Actions Per Day 410 million text […]
Advanced SEO troubleshooting: Why isn’t this page indexed?
UPDATED: APRIL 3RD 2013 Some of you seasoned pros will likely find this post of n00b status, but chances are that you’ve made a silly mistake at one point (or two) in your SEO career. This happened to me and Continue reading »
Operation: Removing Unnatural Links
This blog is mostly about seo for genuine small businesses and beginners to seo. Although I have touched on other areas that interest me and not specifically seo, I don’t usually blog about all the algorithm changes Google pushes out that are discussed on other blogs. For that, I follow Search Engine Land, mainly. For […]
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SEO Tutorial For Beginners 2013
**Updated for 2013 Here are some free search engine optimisation tips for you to create a successful site. I deliberately steered clear of things that might be a bit grey, as what is grey today is often black hat tomorrow, as far as Google is concerned…
Making it Happen in Online Marketing
After spending two years as an executive in a fast growing Online Marketing agency with several offices across the globe, a large number of to-dos can accumulate in any given day. I go through a lot of delegation, continuous prioritising exercises, and seamless decision making while trying to keep my composure and sanity on daily basis.
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ThenSome SEO Pub Trivia Night in SF!
Come join a group of some of the most incredible SEOs and marketing geeks *you should know* in the San Francisco Bay Area over drinks and team trivia on Wednesday April 3rd. We might ask you stuff like: True or False: The founders of Distilled are brothers Will and Tom Critchlow? What year did rel=”nofollow” […]
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The Positive Negative: How to Use Negative Keywords to Save on Spend.
If there is one thing my family can tell you, it is that I am cheap. I will look for any and every way to save money. My mother says that I “Squeeze a nickel until the buffalo poops.” So when it comes to PPC, one of my favorite reports to analyze is the search […]
Linkgex: Tool to Get Links to Specific Subsets of Pages
Recently I have found myself fairly frequently wanting to get links that are linking to a certain sub-section of a website (i.e. links to only certain pages on the domain). Reasons why this might come about: to know how many Continue reading »
How to Find Anyone’s Email Using Allmytweets
Have you ever wanted to find someone’s email, but find that they don’t list it on their website? If they’re an editor/contributor/author at a publication, but the website doesn’t list their email address, what can you do? You could install Rapportive, use Rob Ousbey’s tool, go searching through Google, or even try guessing… But why […]
Mastering PPC: Understanding PPC and SEO
As a digital marketing agency specializing in search, it shouldn’t surprise you to hear that we’re regularly asked what the difference is between PPC and SEO. So let’s run through each! Pay-Per-Click (PPC): PPC advertising, also known as “Paid Search” or “Search Engine Marketing (SEM)”, is the process of paying for advertising on sites and search […]
How to Quickly Find Content That Shouldn’t Be Indexed
Duplicate/thin content is almost always bad, and it’s sometimes difficult to find it on our websites, especially the bigger ones. Lots of different advanced operators and code searches can bring up some bad content, but there’s another method I haven’t seen discussed that can also do a lot of good towards finding content we can […]
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The Webmaster Academy goes international
Webmaster level: All
Since we launched the Webmaster Academy in English back in May 2012, its educational content has been viewed well over 1 million times.
The Webmaster Academy was built to guide webmasters in creating great sites that perform well in Google search results. It is an ideal guide for beginner webmasters but also a recommended read for experienced users who wish to learn more about advanced topics.
To support webmasters across the globe, we’re happy to announce that we’re launching the Webmaster Academy in 20 languages. So whether you speak Japanese or Italian, we hope we can help you to make even better websites! You can easily access it through Webmaster Central.
We’d love to read your comments here and invite you to join the discussion in the help forums.
Posted by Giacomo Gnecchi Ruscone, Search Quality
Celebrity Website SEO Audit
This week we’re introducing a new theme to our weekly hangouts on air. We will pick a few celebrity websites and perform a quick SEO audit on each.
This week we’re focusing on the music industry:
http://www.ladygaga.com/
http://www.metallica.com/
http://www.theprodigy.com/
http://www.justinbiebermusic.com/
http://www.britneyspears.com/
How to join?…
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Google’s Agent Rank / Author Rank Patent Filing
I originally wrote the following article 6 years ago, and it was published on Search Engine Land on February 9th, 2007. At the time, I wasn’t sure if we would ever see Google find a way to meld together ranking signals from PageRank and Information Retrieval with relevance signals from authors and publishers and commentators […]
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Are Print Yellow Pages No Longer “Local”?
Mike Blumenthal has some nice LocalSEOGuide bait today on print yellow pages usage trends by advertisers entitled “Annual Print YP Death Watch”: “In many categories the ads are for national players. In florists for example there are 2.5 pages and only 1/8 of one page covers truly local florists….The print YP are no longer a […]
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Tracking Image Search In Google Analytics
The Internet is becoming increasingly visual but the standard Google Analytics default lumps image search traffic in with organic traffic. The problem with that is these two types of traffic have radically different behaviors. So here’s a quick way for you to track image search in Google Analytics to gain insight into how images are […]
Tracking Image Search In Google Analytics is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.
Sessions Announced for SearchLove Boston 2013!
With just 8 weeks to go until we descend on Boston for another 2 jam-packed days of all things Search, we realised it was about time to reveal what’s in store from our incredible line-up of speakers this year. We’re super Continue reading »
Search Engine Submission Services? DON’T – Here’s Why…
This is a short post – and a very basic post – but a needed one. Think of this like a PSA that is attempting to pay it forward to new marketers everywhere. In doing some keyword research today, I was a little startled to see tens of thousands of searches being performed around the […]
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Why Google won’t display the right page title
Lately we’ve been inundated, literally, with support requests for WordPress SEO and its premium add-ons, all asking one “simple” thing: why isn’t Google picking up my page title? People who changed their page title and see that the search results still show their old title are bound to think Google didn’t “get” the new title…
Why Google won’t display the right page title is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.
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