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...
Google uses web crawlers (a.k.a.bots or GoogleBot) to find and index web pages by following links. I wouldn't put too much of a tunnel vision focus on just links," Cutts said. To fix this, Cutts advises clicking around your website to make sure you...
But Bing is suggesting not showing 10 links all the time. The first result, naturally for ebay.com, has six "deep links" and a search box for directly searching eBay. But you may see as many as 12 or 14 if you don't find what you want after...
EconsultancySimple, functional, attractive homepages that have clear navigational links, helpful search functions, promotional images, barcode scanners, simple forms, and helpful product information. Improvements to the New Look – Pinterest...
It's now your job to create a narrative that links them all together. It’s important to be professional so you can come back and use the service again. Get back and follow up with specific questions on what they've told you as soon as you can.
So we've established that brands are now publishers, and if they expect to generate real results – links, shares and community engagement – they'd better have a good answer to the question, how am I adding genuine value?
If you are the author of any of these links I'll take this opportunity to say a big thank you for producing such useful content! Interestingly I didn't star as many articles on Penguin; I think that this is a reflection on the fact that Panda was...
One key way is that social works in the same way that links work. So if your CEO buys into the importance of links to your SEO visibility (which is SEO 101, and they should), then social is now just as important of a cornerstone for SEO.
Building authority through links and social media endorsements. The two SEO elements to focus on for mobile apps and the app stores are content and links. Linking the app store page to the official app page on your website, and reciprocating that...
Below are the links to Schachinger's articles: Now sit back and look again at how much information is there, how many different accounts are represented. I was certain it ran a lot deeper than that. When authorship launched, it seemed to support my...
Looking back on it, we all know we were building bad links. Many of us have drastically changed the way we build links since then, but those link building practices were completely normal not so long ago.
Links are important for rankings. Networked links aren't free. I mention these because my experience has been that many webmasters won't be upfront with you and will offer you links on various sites while swearing they aren't connected in any way.
This particular guide says, "Annotations, calls-to-action (CTAs), description links, and promotional videos are effective traffic movers. Or, as they use to say on early TV shows, "Don't touch that dial, we'll be back after these messages.
As noted with the Home Depot example, key engagement options exist such as an "add to cart" action button, search for intent refinement or modification, other options to dig into additional information and links to similar products that other...
Ask the Ex-Googlers Anything at BrightonSEO – Linkdex BlogEx-Googlers Fili Wiese, Alfredo Pulvirenti and Jonas Weber talk spam, bad links, link building, content, social signals, and more. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies...
If you recognize industry leaders in your blog posts, you will get linksback from those leaders, citing that recognition. Google may employ more than 200 different signals when determining SERPs, but links still carry the most weight.
We reached back out to the company that set up the links and spoke with a vice president about next steps. Within a day, we heard back that some of the links were already coming down. We had a number of spreadsheets going back and forth, with...
Running back link checks on the site you get links from to ensure their equity isn’t coming from bad neighborhoods as that could pass to you. Google assigns weight or authority to links using its own PageRank currency, but like any currency it is...
Quality/authority of inbound links to domain Note: velocity refers to the speed at which a local listing or a website accumulates outside references, such as links, citations, reviews, or check-ins. Author Rank is going to continue to give real...
If a site linking to mine gets caught selling links, what happens to my site? Squidoo Now NoFollows Their Outbound Links – Search Engine Roundtable Why might a page with bad backlinks links be ranking highly?