Very few sites have the power and brand to sit around and wait for people to link to them and even those that could, wouldn't have the patience to do so given Google's placed importance on links. Google frowned on this practice and de-indexed some...
Links from news pages: News items can really be a few different opportunities since most universities have a few separate news streams. Alumni associations are generally news-starved and will publish most items on former students, provided the info...
It also includes sites you visit from your blacklist (good if you’re a reddit addict) and can suggest sites you might want to add to your blacklist based on behavior. It’s important to stay up to date when you work in search and every SEO should be...
It’s a new product, so the major publications haven’t posted reviews yet and what you see are smaller sites, most simply selling the item – no reviews. Do you agree sites need to be content mills in order to compete in the SERPs?
Experian Hitwise: Cyber Monday a Banner Day for Top 500 Retail Sites Online traffic on Cyber Monday increased 11 percent YoY, as the top 500 retail sites received more than 206.8 million total US visits.
According to a Think With Google study focusing on B2B sites: percent of conversions come from paid branded terms. Maps, news items, or a competitor’s paid listing could all appear before your own organic listing.
Also, for the top 10 followers on Twitter, multiple news sites have reported the number of fake followers to be around 27 percent. The modern website is becoming more about what have you done lately (content marketing, social content, and social...
For those who are new to the party, Google remarketing provides marketers with an opportunity to stay engaged with users who were on their site (or their client’s sites) and then offer those users relevant ads as they browse the web.
Web search interest in “how to” has doubled in the past five years, while web search interest in “news” and “reviews”, by comparison, has remained relatively flat, according to Google Insights for Search.
Specifically, Google is under antitrust scrutiny for the way it displays links to its own vertical search services (e.g.shopping, travel, news), how it copies content from competitors for its own sites, having exclusive deals with AdSense...
Imagine you’re responsible for a site that’s in Google News, and you’re asked to determine how well you’re doing. Just look in your analytics for Google News referrals right? No, that’s just giving you the traffic from Google News, not from news...
As an in-house SEO, news of a site freeze could come as a setback if you had some changes planned before year’s end. Here is the truth in the SEO world - if we left IT folks to their own devices, then most sites would have some kind of site or page...
In the short time since Google’s freshness update, it looks like the biggest winners are news sites, broadcast sites, video portals and a lot brand sites, according to the list of winners and losers from Searchmetrics.
Increase traffic from Google News. How we drove more traffic from Google News. However, our ultimate intention is that users start to think about our platform as a means to build your own niche news feeds and alerts - to streamline the sharing of...
The idea is that, when pressed, these will generate updates that are bounced around the news feeds of the 130 people to which the average Facebook user is connected. Kenshoo will drive traffic to these sites, as it does best.
Switzerland saw a truly substantial drop on several major sites, including indeed.ch, a job search site which saw a 98.59 percent decrease in visibility; wikio.de, a news and shopping site which saw a 93.71 percent decrease in visibility; and...
One other way to track tropical storms is through Google Earth with the Places layer turned on, which will give you details on a storm’s intensity, latest news, advisory information, historical data, and projected paths.
Google's current "standard" SERP model mixes links, images, news stories, videos, and more. The antitrust investigations (both European and American) of Google are focused on whether Google is unfairly favoring its own sites.
News sites such as the New York Times are altogether a different animal. However, and almost without exception, there is opportunity to improve product-level canonicalization signals on enterprise sites.
This setting uses Google Reader's relevance algorithm to automatically put the posts you should know about at the top of the pile and demote less interesting news. The advantage of this approach is that you can, in Google Reader, mark all the items...
