Site appears to be cloaking (displaying different content to human users than is shown to search engines) or redirecting users to a different page than Google saw. Write out full sentences in title="" (note the have no SEO effect, but still we see...
It's everything you would have searched for, served up proactively before you even think to search for it. Though the tools for actually performing a search are pretty impressive as well. A Glimpse of the Future of Predictive Search
Compound anchors: These are combinations of anchors (e.g.blue widgets from Search Engine Watch", which combines money and brand anchors). If you can get information on whether the link is an image or a text link, that is helpful but not necessary.
To fix this, Cutts advises clicking around your website to make sure you can reach the pages on your site by clicking on regular links, ideally in a text browser (to do this, from Google's search results, click on Google's cache of your page/site...
At iAcquire we understand that off-page optimization involves monitoring your domain authority, anchor text distribution and staying abreast of algorithmic fluctuations to ensure you maintain your visibility in the SERPs.
A new analysis says Google Image Search traffic is down 63 percent on average. Facebook tests Graph Search ads and debuts CPA bidding. Bing calls a search malware analysis "wrong". All this and much more in our quick recap of search and social...
In reviewing our links, we now see that we have tried to manipulate the search results by using links containing anchor text from syndicated articles. A full discussion on what needs to be done to recover from a penalty is outside of the scope of...
MVT is different than A/B testing, since rather than just doing a bulk change and testing different variations of full pages with A/B testing, you can carve up the page in different sections and you can test in real-time different combinations of...
A former member of Matt Cutts' search quality team was recently quoted as saying: getting a link from a high PR page used to always be valuable, today it's more the relevance of the site's theme in regards to yours, relevance is the new PR.
The "optimization" in SEO implies that there is always something more which can be done to improve organic search visibility, so the faster and smarter you can work, the better results get and happier your stakeholders will be.
If you have little or no non-linked text above the fold and your prior site did have text above the fold, this is something to note and work on adjusting with your designers. Another big responsive issue is getting some non-linked text above the fold.
An eBay study on the effectiveness of paid search advertising claims that brand keyword ads provide no short-term benefits and negative return on investment (on average). Paid search ads help you control your brand's message and own the most...
Using the meta robots tag, you can instruct the search engines to not index a certain page, not follow any links on the page, etc. There are several CSS techniques for hiding content, including moving the content off-page (location-wise), using...
In an earlier article I covered an intent-based approach that leverages consumer behavior data throughout the decision journey to help marketers drive content development and search query relevance. The next step along the route to revenue looks at...
You can configure search engine friendly URLs (SEF URLs) by selecting the Custom Structure option and adding the following parameter in the text box. Step 2: Permalink Settings - Search engine friendly URLs
The comments area is still present when viewing full-sized images. In addition to revamping the design of Friends Photos search and changes to the autosuggest algorithm, Bing also unveiled a plugin to help webmasters more easily generate XML sitemaps.
Running a search query report can determine if this is the issue. New search queries: For broad match or modified broad match terms, we have seen new search queries generate more clicks quickly, but they fail to convert.
See the full agenda. Although YouTube is known to be the second largest search engine online, it's a common misconception to believe that tapping into its community is the only way to make online video work in your favor.
When grouping annotations the publisher has to pay attention to the description text in each of the annotations in the group. I was actually in the “K”s looking for the Koo Koo Bear Kids catalog to search for holiday gifts for my niece and nephew...
The search algorithms have changed, the SERP results have changed, and how SEO professionals operate is changing. While the search landscape has grown and matured, it presents several challenges as well as opportunities to take enterprise SEO to a...
