Google knows that people like the IRS site (when they need it), Wikipedia, or the NY Times. They know that people don't like other types of sites. How bad was the content? Nearly zero of the other people using the same data source did that.
Many of the techniques utilized by the best sales people can have a profoundly positive impact on your ability to convert content outreach to placement. Too Much Info is Bad The fact is that the majority believes that outreach is simply about...
That, in and of itself would be bad enough, but I was faced with taking the data that was available (about eight months worth) and figuring out what the top pages were and what keywords brought those visitors in through Google's organic listings.
If Durex had picked 20 cities around the world for their condom delivery service, and asked people to vote on those 20 cities, then this would have worked for them. Similarly David Bowie's people should have restricted the options to a subset of...
Reviews are a great indication of how the plugin performs on people's sites. The great thing about the directory is that it is maintained and policed by a great team of contributors, including people like Ipstenu who is contributes directly to the...
What if this was unintentional, a bad SEO you hired or just like my client, something a user did on their site, what do you do? However people do it all the time without knowing they are doing it. Some people will laugh at this one, keyword...
In a Webmaster Help video, Google's Matt Cutts details the types of cases where people are struggling to identify problems on their site, part of how Google Webmaster Tools is trying to provide more concrete actionable information in their emails...
Performing a log file analysis identified 20 "rogue" bots hitting the site, and had some concerns about the possibility of people scraping the client's content, so these "bad" bots had their access removed.
In another survey, almost 25% of people said that receiving an email that looks bad changed their perception to strongly negative of the brand. Fifty percent of people in the same survey said receiving an email that looks bad changed their...
If this were my blog, I'd send a short email to the people featured in the videos and let them know the videos have been re-released and ask them to retweet, +1, etc. His series is a good example how to incorporate local and topical terms/ideas to...
But, they are surrounded by people who love them and will protect them, but cannot hide the fact that there is something bad. They have to know it's possible things are bad. Maurice Sendak was born on this date 85 years ago.
At least it doesn't work the way that many people seem to think it does. Cutts is quoted as saying "… if you were hit by Penguin and know or think you have bad links, you should probably use this tool.
Bad at remembering special occasions? As Google CEO Larry Page himself said at Google I/O last month that “Technology should do the hard work so that people can get on with doing the things that make them happiest in life.
Why Do People Ask for Links to be Removed? Some sites have tens of thousands of unnatural links that need to be addressed, so it is possible that a few mistakes are made in classifying the good and the bad.
Let me be clear that guest posting isn't bad. What is bad is someone trying to put a culinary article on my marketing website: To add to the hype, people are completely misunderstanding all of the signals Google is putting out about authorship and...
One common issue we see with disavow requests is people going through with a fine-toothed comb when they really need to do something more like a machete on the bad backlinks. It will always possible for people to name reasonable exceptions, except...
One common issue we see with disavow requests is people going through with a fine-toothed comb when they really need to do something more like a machete on the bad backlinks. For example, often it would help to use the "domain:" operator to disavow...
In the run up to Penguin 2.0 people have talked about two aspects of guest blogging: It's sad to read articles; many by bloggers and people who run sites based on contributions from guest bloggers, as to the decline in the importance in guest...
Because you're going to represent yourself as a real human being and put in the time and effort, you want to make sure you're only listing sites that are curated by real people. It's also important for a badass link builder to give other people...
While this condition never really affected me — other than having a slightly weaker voice than normal which some people think sounded a little funny — it naturally raised questions in my mind about my second vocal cord.
