Citations. Regardless of what you may have read about the next major release of Google's Penguin algo, fundamentally, guest posting remains a sound concept. In fact, link building is still legal (the referenced post was +1'ed by Google's John...
AFC is based on great ideas as content, and does inspire links, citations, co-citations, mentions, associations and affiliations; connections between brands, topics and authority. His answer: write "awesome frickin' content"!
Step 3: Disseminate Structured and Unstructured Citations Having a healthy mix of both structured and unstructured citations is really important for both SEO and conversions. Event citations (local social event, meetups, seminars/workshops)
Links Must Be Citations First and foremost, I don't work for Google. This article represents my opinions, but my company has worked on helping large numbers of sites get Google penalties removed. The hardest part of these projects is always to get...
Author Rank will likely be determined by metrics like the number of shares, pluses, comments, citations, and authority on Google+. Believe it. If you aren’t on Google+, you're on the path to irrelevance.
Don’t forget existing inbound citations. If you’re thinking about redesigning or rebuilding your website, there’s a lot to consider. A hasty start or too much enthusiasm without a lot of research to support it almost always leads to increased...
In the academic world, when content is published in the form of a thesis there are citations within the content that point to other relevant content from authoritative sources that support the content, thus making it more relevant to the reader.
Google is a massive "connections engine," crawling the web discovering associations, affiliations, citations, mentions, links, and other connections that give topical context, trust, and authority to brands.
Passing of authority from page to page might still be largely driven by links, though I think non-linking citations will probably be taking on even more importance than today. As such, it reflects my opinion of the direction search is going, not...
Today, search results are influenced not only by keyword cues and interlinking citations, but also social signals, geographical location, proximity intent, temporal shifts, concurrent data patterns, and visitor behavior.
If you believe in links being treated like academic citations, valuing low relevance links doesn't make sense. The past 2 years have brought in a tremendous amount of change in the world of search, and 2013 will be no different.
If it really worked – gained citations, referrals, and generated page views – try to learn from what worked and apply it across the board. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities The search industry is booming.
Local SEO citations and mobile madness have hit the T-minus mark and are ready for launch. Citations: The New Link Building Local search is dependent upon a new kind of link building called citations.
With the advent of local search rising in importance over the past six years, citations have been rising in importance. There are many tools available to help you mine the citations, but it's quite easy to categorize them into neighborhoods...
Generate links and social citations to your site. I fervently monitored post launch metrics, page crawl rate, 404s, indexed pages, and so on as any other anxious SEO professional would do. While reviewing the pages crawled per day in Google...
Think of non-link citations. Do you guys think that general web directories are still good for building links, or should I go with niche directories, instead? Oh and this isn’t the only person asking.
Getting a great link shouldn't be your only end goal – you should think about other target metrics such as audience reach, traffic, mentions, citations, eyeballs, rankings, followers – or, more importantly, revenue!
Since citations are an algorithmic factor there is more now to the process than simply feeding the engines. Many who are eager to "get ahead" with their search engine optimization (SEO) program are typically consumed with the latest and greatest...
They were like any other citations, methods of getting additional information by going somewhere else. Whenever I'm asked about what I do for a living, I say something like this: "you know those pieces of text that you can click on inside of a...
Most local search professionals will tell you that citations and site relevance to the target geo are the keys to ranking in local search engine results pages (SERPs). Testing and retesting old methods is part of maintaining SEO strategies so it...
