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A Searchmetrics analysis of news sources in Google's search results over several hundred thousand keywords in March 2013 shows that Patch.com had the most visibility, followed by Huffington Post, Disney’s Go.com, NYTimes.com and WashingtonPost.com.
Creating great content is integral to attracting more and better traffic. Awesome content isn't ordinary and doesn't fade into the background. It stands out from the crowd, and is worthy of discussing, writing about, talking about, and publishing.
Working as an in-house SEO can be a rewarding experience, but it can also be a very frustrating one. Here are four particularly frustrating scenarios that frequently leave in-house SEOs with a copy of their palm in red on their own forehead.
There may have been some misuse of press releases along the way as a "fast" way to pick up some "easy" links. But the press release can still be a valuable online marketing tool. If you use them right they can still help get links, in a real way.
Not getting the search traffic you were hoping for? In a new Webmaster Help video, Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts reveals five of the biggest basic SEO mistakes webmasters make, and suggests a few ways to improve your website.
Getting a link from an .edu domain can be very valuable. There are a ton of ripe link opportunities at schools, if you know where to look. Here are a few actionable and high probability tips and tactics for acquiring .edu links.
Are you feeding search engines garbage? Taking a look at your entire index will allow you to gain an understanding of what Google and Bing see and index. Here's how to hone in on and assess your content, see if it's indexed, and clean it up.
When the goal is to attract larger audiences for your content marketing efforts, either to turn these visitors into new leads or just for the SEO value to be gained from earning links and social media shares, you need some heavyweight content bait.
From Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, to Webmaster Tools, and who to follow at Google, here's a great collection of website optimization tips, guides, resources, and tutorials you can get straight from Google.
There’s a gold rush under way as brands allocate big budgets to build and optimize their presence in emerging search and discovery channels. How can SEOs stake their claim in this new mobile, local, social, and content marketing territory?
Being a reporter on HelpAReporter.com can be a source of great well-crafted stories, quotes from company CEOs, and opinions from recognized experts that are right on topic. Here are some best practices to get the most from a fabulous content source.
How are you adding genuine value to your audience? This is the question you must answer if you want to consistently and repeatedly create dynamite content. Spend more time up front brainstorming content, then keep tuning and refining those ideas.
Have you ever thought which of SEO and marketing websites statistically provides the best content? Or if what people on these sites write about ever really changes? The sunsetting of Google Reader forced me to find out whose content really is king.
Writing an awesome reconsideration request is critical when you're attempting to get an unnatural links penalty removed by Google. Get on the path to recovery by following these tips, and see one example of a reconsideration request that worked.
Ready to get started on WordPress? Tweaking some default settings, setting permalinks, adding update services, and customizing media settings – plus installing Google Analytics – all will improve WordPress for SEO and the user experience.
Users are being conditioned to check (and click) the area of Google's SERP design that prominently displays information pulled via Knowledge Graph, Maps, and (conveniently for revenue) product listing ads, depending on the intent of a search query.
Link building isn't as easy as it once was. Google Penguin changed the game. Now, rather than building links “the easy way,” SEOs must focus on building natural, relevant, and useful links – not the kind that exist only to increase search rankings.
One of the most popular (and dangerous) to build a bunch of links quickly is by using a link network. Here's how you can better understand what a network is, how to identify networked sites, and whether those easy links are too good to be true.
User experience, site usability, and onsite engagement have become more important for major search engines in their assessment of a site's "rankability," Use this checklist of tips to ensure your landing pages are sending all the right signals.
The same activities that were responsible for ascending to number one in the SERPs were also responsible for your manual penalty. So now what? It's time to acquire high value editorial links. Here are some of the best methods for doing so.
