Google now tells webmasters that the key to improve your rankings in search results, you need to create high quality sites with equally quality content. Google Hangouts on Air can take care of all of that for you.
It's puzzling why Yahoo just doesn't continue serving Yahoo search results and ads under the AltaVista brand name, particularly since comScore includes AltaVista in their listing for Yahoo sites when reporting on explicit core search share an...
No matter how awesome your content, it's much harder to get sites to link to something that's riddled with ads or aggressive in-line banner offers. With keyword search data, typically we're grabbing estimated monthly, exact match searches from the...
This is such a severe warning Google has a live generated feed of sites being removed for it. Google thinks you are selling links, or passing your link juice to sites you shouldn't be (advertorials would fall under this list).
Facebook Graph Search is also becoming increasingly important, since Facebook is one of the top ranked and indexed sites on the web. So one of the first things you want to do, Beckman said, is to make sure that your brand has a profile on all the...
Google Sites came in second with nearly 2.6 billion ads, followed by LiveRail.com with 2.1 billion, Adap.tv with 2.1 billion, Hulu with 1.7 billion, Specific Media with 1.4 billion and TubeMogul Video Ad Platform with 1.2 billion.
Some of these sites allow you to submit your content through an online form. The sites you really want exposure on, most likely will not. Once you've identified the authors and sites, and the content has been created (which I skipped over...
I found it really interesting; Google announced changes to their algorithm which will favor sites with best-in-class mobile infrastructure; for once I don't think you'd find an SEO that begrudges the changes they are making.
For example, we've seen a couple sites that had millions of pages that had manual web spam action taken on just a very small number of pages, or in one case, just one page. Don't think Google will hold your hand and include every single thing that...
This is different than national link building, where it’s supremely important to build links only on sites that are highly relevant to your industry, with a measure of authority. Step 1 — convincing local sites to link to yours — can only be taken...
Google called out two specific areas in their blog post – faulty redirects (“when a desktop page redirects smartphone users to an irrelevant page on the smartphone-optimized website”) and smartphone only errors (when “sites serve content to...
That's why celebrity gossip sites do so well. Jo Turnbull: Maybe here, play on people's fear by writing some great posts on home help sites: "Face your fear and banish those spiders from your home for good in 5 simple ways" "3 Ways To Prevent a...
Author Stats allows you to tie in guest posts on other sites by connecting it to your Google + author account. Up to now, it's been hard to know what kind of traffic your posts on various sites get. Since the vast majority of traffic goes to the...
Most Sites shouldn't use this tool Simply document the demand for payment on your spreadsheet and include these sites in your Disavow file. Google makes it pretty clear that using the disavow tool is an act of last resort.
In addition, my analysis of sites hit by both Penguin 1.0 and 2.0 revealed many websites hit by malware, flagged as attack sites, etc. For some sites, this is a daunting task. There are a number of sites I've analyzed that have hundreds of...
Prediction: Sites with too diverse subject matter will face visibility issues as search engines seek more focused expertise and thought leadership on specific (and more limited) topics. Search engines will look within sites to better identify...
Many people with image-rich sites were puzzled when their traffic dropped in late-January due to a change in the way Google Images works. How to Use this Segment: Apply this segment to reports in the Audience section of Google Analytics to inspect...
If Google's algorithms believe you or your site is an authority in a particular area, they want to make sure those sites rank a little bit higher than other sites. Hacked Sites They are looking for some additional signals for sites that are in the...
Too many links from sites not indexed in Google. For example, one of the last profiles I looked at was a U.S.site that shipped its product only to U.S.customers, but more than 65 percent of their links were from sites outside the U.S.mainly in Asia...
Drive Traffic Through Different Sites Don't take images from Google; instead, find and cite the original source. Google Analytics is also a popular way to assess your performance. Instead, think about themes and events and create specialized boards...
