Here's a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. 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...
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...
With that in mind, Google's effort to continuously improve search quality is good news for SEO professionals already using strong content strategies. Guest posting by selecting high quality sites with well-curated content will be beneficial to your...
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?
For the most part this advice still stands as the Google announcement pertained only to the news_keywords meta tag for Google News-accredited clients. If that isn't you and you're not flagging a news story, continue to steer clear of the keyword tag.
Google continues to evolve its algorithm to promote great content and demote sites that are focused on gaming or reverse engineering the algorithm. Reporting based on role: Enterprise SEO assumes that there are different roles within a marketing...
As seen in the screenshot below, non-government sites rank about the DOJ campaign site, as do image results, news results, and book results. They use the restricted .gov top-level domain, they tend to have many inbound links from other...
You can submit your site to Google News for one thing, and sites like PRWeb allow you to submit press releases. There are also the typical news sites like CNN, BBC, the New York Times, and your local newspapers.
Following that you get NHL news links and a bunch of other common sites like Wikipedia and sports sites. With this search the first thing that comes up is News results and it tells how long ago the news article was posted.
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...
Among the sites participating in the launch are Google, Yahoo, Microsoft’s Bing, Facebook, and many others. He said there may be a few properties where an immediate upgrade would degrade the user experience so there may be a delay on those sites...
The dashboard lets SMBs see whether the company is listed in some 100 sites and directories, including Yelp and Yahoo Local. The destination also includes news and advice from the recently launched Yahoo Small Business Advisor content site and 24/7...
Socialize content: Create informative, shareable content and socialize through Twitter, Facebook and other relevant sharing sites. Make the news and be the news. Those profiles will appear in Google/Bing's organic search engine results.
Once you've found the top 3-5 regularly appearing sites, review their results to identify if they have a keen grasp on title tags, meta description, and URL naming convention best practices. Perform site:www.competitorname.com queries in Google...
The types of links to your website (sources such as directories, forums, news articles, press releases, social, etc. For any website just beginning to build its link profile – sites with no/few backlinks – it’s important to establish a sound...
April Fools Pranks 2011 - Bamboo Update Restores Sites Dropped by Google Panda In 2006, the company announced Google Romance, a place where you can post all types of romantic information and, using Google’s Soulmate Search, get back search results...
Author and publish guest posts on high profile or well-trafficked sites in your niche. Answering questions is a great way to build relationships and your expertise while helping others unselfishly market your brand and you can do this on social sites:
Do you feed news to Google? In Google alone, we have seen the entry of local results, the birth of universal search, the Caffeine update, Google Instant, and Search Plus Your World. Google search will continue to become more personalized, getting...
Leverage the diversity of Google universal search results mixed with videos, images, shopping, books, maps (local), and news. This will also allow more shares to accrue on social sites across time zones improving the chances of being featured as...
No, that’s just giving you the traffic from Google News, not from news oneboxes in universal search. Imagine you’re responsible for a site that’s in Google News, and you’re asked to determine how well you’re doing.
