Live @ SMX London: From Authorship To Authority: Why Claiming Your Identity Matters

While “content is king,” many marketers overlook the all-important factor of authority, and the process required to establish and maintain it. Google underscored the importance of authority when it introduced “author rank” as an important factor in its ranking algorithm. To…

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Live @ SMX Advanced: Think You Know Good Content? Fuggedaboutit. Here’s What Really Counts

Ever since Google “pandalized” the rankings of many sites, the mantra of many publishers and search marketers has been “content, content, content.” Wise words: The now ongoing Panda updates are designed to reward websites that offer valuable information and penalize sites…

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