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. The good news is brands don’t need to drop big research and production spend to do video well!
Beckman went on to say, just as Google has PageRank, which is based off of about 200 different ranking factors, Facebook has EdgeRank, which is an algorithm used by Facebook to determine what is displayed in a user's News Feed based on three main...
For those who despise link building, and the negative SEO aspect of competitors pointing bad links to websites, the fact that Google is putting greater emphasis on sites that users want to use and share will be good news to many webmasters.
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...
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...
In doing so, these videos can then become visible to target connections on important B2B social networking sites like Google+, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Let's review these top sites from a B2B social marketing perspective so we can crown an undisputed...
Top 10 News Sites That Appear in Google News Results Here are the top 10 sites which appear in news integrations on Google.com (the number of times they appeared are in parenthesis): patch.com, (4,352) huffingtonpost.com, (3,530) go.com, (3,140...
Links from news pages: News items can really be a few different opportunities since most universities have a few separate news streams. Every university has an alumni association with its own dedicated website, and nearly all publish an alumni news...
Site managers and marketers can become complacent with their sites, viewing the same top level and product/service pages, blog pages, news pages, and so on. Looking at your entire index through the lens of a website indexation audit will allow you...
What is being done to detect and remove results from larger sites when they don't have unique content that is relevant to a query (e.g.yelp.com results with no reviews, Facebook "business" pages that weren't actually created by the business)?
The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin makes it easier for you and adds functionality such as tracking users by username, which is useful for ecommerce sites and ignoring administrators who spend a lot of time in the site and cause anomalous...
But Google's exit is good news for competitive affiliate networks and affiliate program management companies, which have leapt to snap up the business dropped by Googliath. Says Tricia Meyer, who operates 12 affiliate sites including...
SSL Web Sites Don't Get Ranking Boost In Google – Search Engine RoundtableThere are no ranking advantages or disadvantages of having HTTPs websites, says Google's John Mueller. Google Play Music Arrives In 7 More Countries – The Next WebNow in...
Ecommerce sites can capitalize on the celebrity fashion news or cultural trends the same way as editors; blogging opened doors for this opportunity years ago. These tend to be the colors splashed all over runways and eventually products sold on...
And for both, create a hyperlink embedded awards badge so nominees, runners-up and winners can promote their accomplishment on their sites. Given the oversaturation in with cold email outreach, one way to increase your chance of getting links with...
Much like in 2012, the April Fools' Day pranks arrived early from Google – and it brought the shocking news that YouTube is shutting down to prepare to pick the Best Video ever. April Fools Pranks 2011 - Bamboo Update Restores Sites Dropped by...
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...
That fact has changed lately as websites such as aleteia.org (a worldwide Catholic sharing network) and Vatican Insider are keenly taking immediate advantage of the announcement of Francis as the new pope to provide news and promote their sites...
But we found gaps and shortcuts in their algorithm, which we used to take our sites and clients to the top. You want your content to be the editorial content that makes the news. The domain quality scores for these media sites are very high, but if...
The great news is that this is typically a quick fix. I find this more often when sites are linking to documents using relative paths versus absolute paths. Let’s face it, either you can tell them about it, or Google can at some point.
