Matt Cutts: Google Didn’t Make Panda & Penguin to Force People to Buy Ads
Are algorithmic updates created solely to force webmasters to buy ads and increase Google’s bottom line? While it’s no conspiracy that Google wants to make profits, Google’s Matt Cutts says updates are only designed to improve the user experience.
Moved: I Thought Exact Match Domain Doorway Pages Were Dead!?!?!?
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G+ isn’t a social network, but you knew that, right?
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Excellent piece out of the UK explaining a plausible version of why G+ exists. It’s not a social network, and to think of it that way is to mislead yourself. The article suggests
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Black Hat SEOs: Focus On Your Site, Not Competitors
In the SEO space, there are always two types of personalities. One is those that go head down and focus on improving their own site and then there are those that look at competitors and complain that they are doing things that are illegal…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Negative SEO Extremely Rare
Yesterday, Search Engine Watch published a story that was a bit outdated. What they eventually did was redirect the story to an older story which said the same thing.
In short…
Further Confirmation of Disavow Tool Debunks Myth
With the Google disavow tool clearly still an area that many website owners would rather avoid, it has become apparent to me that there are loads of people out there that are fearful towards what making use of the tool would spark on from a Google pers…
Monetizing Site Search Queries
I believe that once everyone starts thinking clearly again after the last round of Penguin updates — focusing on their business rather than on ways to game the system or mass produce activities that are not scalable — we can get down to action that can actually move the needle. One such…
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Looking at the landscape. Did Penguin 2 live up to hype
The following was a post I wrote for the IGB magazine to co-incide with the IGamingSupershow Amsterdam event. There have been a lot of column inches written about Google’s latest version of the search link algorithm called Penguin – both pre and post the launch of Version 2.0 late last week. For many including myself, […]
3 Ways To Break The Link Building Block
We’ve all been there — that moment in any link building campaign where you hit a wall. There are so many things that you want to do, but there is so little time or buy-in to do them that you settle on just doing the things you need to do. That sucks. It gets tedious, […]
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Defining Authorship: The Difference Between Contributors and Guest Authors
Many people are missing the point of authorship. Strong authors who pass great Author Rank won’t be people who simply blog a lot, all over the place; they will be contributors who contribute amazing content that is relevant.
The Content Catalyst: How Content Drives Search & Social Synergy
Today, many a search marketer lives in a world driven by Pandas and Penguins. SEO as we used to know it has changed forever. As Google shifts its focus to quality and relevancy, content marketing adoption has soared. It is no coincidence that the incre…
Trulia Is Making A Real Estate Search App For Google Glass
Google Glass may never become a popular consumer device, but that’s not stopping Trulia from making what should be the first real estate search app for Glass. The real estate search engine revealed its plans to San Francisco’s NBC affiliate over the weekend and shared more details in a…
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YouTube Capture: Videos Upload Upside Down
Jennie from the YouTube team posted in the YouTube Help forums that the YouTube Capture app that is currently live is uploading videos upside down.
This seems to be a specific bug to version version 1.4…
Are These Your Best SEO Tips?
A WebmasterWorld thread has Webmasters and SEOs sharing their best SEO tips. The thread was started by moderator, goodroi…
5 Steps to Create a Website That Both Your Customers & Search Engines Will Love
A major mistake businesses often make when it comes to SEO is optimizing their website at the expense of their customers. Here are 5 steps you can implement to avoid this, and create a website that both your customers and search engines will love.
New google serps UI with image results clusters
Spotted by egol over at cre8asiteforums google are now showi
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2 Underutilized Opportunities for Schema on Your Website
Want to make your website’s listing stand out from others within increasingly limited search engine real estate? Two schema.org protocols – breadcrumbs and person markup – both offer huge opportunities and are really easy to implement.
Matt Cutts and misconceptions in SEO
OK I watched this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2mv1KSktLo and I nearly barfed.
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Your 2013 SEO dream team
To do great SEO you need a dream team consistent of different people with different skills. What`s your ideal SEO team in 2013?
Post from Agnete Tøien Pedersen on State of Search
Your 2013 SEO dream team
Twitter May Launch Retargeting for Advertisers
Although Twitter hasn’t confirmed the feature, those said to have knowledge of the matter say it’s coming soon. With all of Twitter’s advertising options and other engaging features rolling out, it seems retargeting could be a logical next step.