While this article is a "philosophy piece", the reality is that without the right philosophy no amount of effective execution is likely to help you win in the long run. To Google it is about recognizing patterns in web publishing behavior that...
Similar to implementing a related posts feature on your blog, you can increase findability with "previous" and "next" post links, which can appear at the top or at the bottom of an article on your blog.
Imagine I told you I got an article published in the New York Times (I haven't, but that is why I said "imagine"). In general, you won't become famous for writing a new article on "mortage tips": If you are locked into the world of PageRank and...
This article was originally published on V3. The report judged firms based on a number of practices, including publishing regular transparency reports, notifying users of government data requests and lobbying lawmakers for improved user privacy...
Eric Enge wrote a great piece on Author Rank (a hypothetical – at least right now – ranking of author authority), in which he talks about article velocity, an "awesome quotient" I agree with and something akin to a measure of article virility (how...
Obviously, whether an article from an RSS feed was starred or not was purely subjective, so I am not saying this is a definitive collection of every amazing article published since 2009! Understand how my perception of "a great SEO article" had...
Annotation also supported by Yandex.common mistakes with rel=canonical – Google Webmaster Central BlogGoogle shares its best practices to avoid the following problems: rel=canonical to the first page of a paginated series; absolute URLs mistakenly...
So you write a decent article on the best golf courses in Bermuda. This article represents my opinions, but my company has worked on helping large numbers of sites get Google penalties removed. You don't put rich anchor text in the body of the...
Find out and write a feature article about them on your blog. And for the purposes of this article, group interviews help generate links that are highly relevant (primarily from the participants) to your own site, are effective tools for outreach...
This was more than just throwing together a 350 to 500 word article to grab the initial spike in QDF, and while that did help, it wasn’t the driving force behind our traffic. Publishing Prowess As soon as we completed publishing on any given day we...
They can simply scrape the data whenever they load the article page for some period of time after the article first posts. Average Article Velocity: The concept of velocity relates to the tweets, +1s, shares, Likes ("social events") per day, per...
Or if you’re on a shoestring budget, Fiverr has tons of folks that are eager to try and improve your article for $5. What’s more, linking out to other sites of value lays the groundwork for conducting outreach to those link targets to let them know...
This is another big area deserving an article in itself, so suffice it to say your content is cost-effectively produced, meets quality standards, and is appropriate for your audience and the context (social, website, mobile, etc.
MuckRack searches not only in the tweet, but also in the actual article that has been tweeted, making it a powerful discovery tool. Nothing special in that – it only turned into a major news story when the local Council decided to forbid her from...
Internal Link Performance which can give you some really cool actionable insights (e.g.how is a link to an article performing on any given page in terms of clicks and should you adjust the position to try and increase visibility where articles...
Article directories were hit in the initial Penguin release on April 24, 2012. If you are currently adding article directory links, then stop the program right away. In addition, if you have some links that resulted from article directories, then...
This article by Ben Goodsell offers a great tutorial on locating duplicate content issues. On the flipside of fixing low or no-value content issues, you must adopt an approach of only publishing the highest quality content on your site.
This article will show publishers how they should prepare their company’s Google Shopping Feed in order for it to integrate smoothly with the publisher’s Google Catalogs dashboard, and provide tips and strategies on how to clean up images...
If the article isn’t doing as hot as you thought it would, switch it up – as important as nailing the perfect subject line is for e-mail marketing, so too is the title crucial for enticing readers to read your articles.
The article is tagged as being written by me, yet it was written by Stephan Spencer, and even says so in the snippet: "About The Author: Stephan Spencer . Not just an indication that someone I know +1'ed or shared an article, but in other ways.
