It's been a crazy couple of years for SEO. We've seen the rise of unnatural links manual penalties. The infamous algo updates like Panda and Penguin, and some lesser talked about ones like the page layout algorithm.
Between using Google+, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Docs, Google is going out there with a pretty massive base," says Harry Gold, CEO of digital marketing firm Overdrive Interactive. This will give us great insights on the behavior and interests of...
SEO reporting is certainly one recurring debate we see in our industry. How much SEO reporting is too much? Reporting can definitely drag on productivity; so where does one stop? There are more than a few schools of thought.
Are you struggling with link building? Freaked out by Penguins and unnatural linking messages? A lot of folks are and seem to be putting a ton of stock into outreach and guest posting. But is that going to work?
I was recently wandering around some Facebook groups and saw this: Do you guys think that general web directories are still good for building links, or should I go with niche directories, instead? Oh and this isn’t the only person asking.
If there's been one thing that tends to get me going, it's when people in the industry start talking about social signals. In particular, Google using them as a ranking factor. Is this truly the case?
In looking back at my recent posts here it seems, though not by design, there was a theme emerging. Have a look. Google Penalty or Algorithm Change: Dealing With Lost Traffic – Explains the difference between penalties, filers and dampeners (as...
It seems that we're finally starting to see more of what many have suspected for a long time. That others can indeed affect your rankings with bad links. Otherwise known as "negative SEO. And this time it's going to be damned hard to get the worms...
He walked down the quiet street, a leopard in the concrete jungle. Eyes down, but watching the angles. Hands in his coat pocket concealing but preoccupied. It was then from the shadows a figure emerged, unwanted but unrelenting.
Before I get to the main crux of this article, I want to cover a perspective my good friend David Harry brought up in a discussion on the subject. If you didn't notice the Search Engine Watch article from October 19, 2011 discussing Google's...
There is nothing worse for a webmaster/site owner than to wake up one day and find Google Armageddon has taken out all of their site's rankings and traffic. In most cases, mayhem ensues as they scramble around to try and figure out what happened or...
Finally, David Harry, President of Reliable SEO and Sifu at the SEO Training Dojo said, "Yes, we lost some keyword data, boo hoo. I don't see that this inhibits us from sharing knowledge," said Harry.
Recently the folks over at Google had a new algo tweak that once more sought to be faster and more relevant to the users needs. This seems to also be a continuation of last year's need for speed, with elements such as real-time search (now defunct...
While I am often leery of group ranking factor studies, here's David Mihm's for those interested. My name is Dave and over the next few months I shall be bringing my own geeky style of SEO to you, the fine readership of Search Engine Watch.
It also seems Google is aware of HubPages plan, as David Harry points out on Search News Central: “.now that they've run off to the WSJ, Google is sure to no know about it and it's shelf life will be limited.
Also this week, in a guest post on Wordstream, "The Evolution of Ranking Signals" David Harry neatly stated, "Consider that when you have a signal that outweighs the others, it becomes a magnet to spammers.
State Comptroller Race Remains Too Close to Call: According to Andrew Grossman of the Wall Street Journal's Metropolis blog, "The race for comptroller (in New York) was too close to call late Tuesday night, with Republican Harry Wilson hanging on...
The event also featured Harry Cole, editor of ToryBear.com, Anthony Painter, commentator and journalist, and Alberto Nardelli, creator of Tweetminster, and Prospect Magazine's James Crabtree. As David Turner (@dturneresq) tweeted, I asked the...
David started with a story of Cindy Gordon, the marketing executive at Universal Theme Parks who launched the Harry Potter theme park. David's presented at events and conferences the world over. When I first glanced at the schedule for Search...
He's launches right into a story about launching the Harry Potter theme park. David Meerman Scott, author of World Wide Rave, is here to talk about "The New Rules of Marketing & PR" I know about creating information that people want to share.am And...
