Essentially, the index reflects how often a website shows up in the search results. Since SEO is typically a long-term strategy, clients tend to gauge success based on what would be more of a lagging indicator (i.e.profits).
Fleck then asked, "How does something that builds a connected Like or connected Fan give us that data layer in Social that allows us to begin to target on things like categories, content segregation, social linking index, and so forth ‐ so that we...
In 2012 we saw the removal of BuildMyRank from the index just prior to Penguin. Focusing on long-tail keywords renders more immediate results, increases the breadth of a website (remember Panda), and builds authority that will ultimately help the...
Many sites lost between 60 and 70 percent (or more) of their pages in the index on the first go around. Need to rank for [insert insanely competitive term here]? You know, the "Good Ol' Days" when you could manipulate Google's algorithm (and others...
Ranging from the changes made by the search engines in the way that they index, judge, and trust content; to the increasingly savvy competitive sets in most of the “money” keyword categories – the static SEO function is one doomed to fall behind...
On the organic side, there are no guarantees on how long it will take Google to index SEO-related changes, such as title tags and meta descriptions, and even then Google may change what appears in the search results.
SEO provided your site has been optimized wisely for the search engines and the search engines can easily index and extract the right context of the content to make it prominently visible on the search results for their users.
American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) The definition of the term in the broadest sense just attempts to measure the profitability of an investment and, as such, there is no one 'right' calculation.
No index, follow” paginated pages. This means, addressing the root cause of your duplicate content issues before they end up in the index. Is it because you read on a popular marketing blog that cranking out blog posts each and every day is a good...
By reviewing the links in your main, footer, breadcrumb and any other supporting navigation you can quickly assess if you have duplicate content issues with pesky default pages (e.g.index.html). Checking this Google property feature can quickly...
Another thing to note about this command is that prefix-matching is also possible with it, so ip:89 returns the site IP:89.356.567.76 if it's in Bing's index. Definition: url: command tells you if a given URL is in Bing's index.
Tweaks, changes, and updates meant to not just improve the general quality of the index, but also seemingly to improve the quality of the industry, the quality of SEOs, their tools, and their services.
The Twitter Political Index also measures the sentiment around the two presidential candidates, based on 400 million daily tweets. Clever Obama is already targeting the term for PPC ads, but Romney must not have bid quite high enough for his...
This feature uses Google's organic search index of the website to determine which searches are relevant to the products on your website. This search term was matched up to a keyword in the account, but not necessarily the same as the keyword.
URL structures that cause duplicate content / difficult to index For example, it's fine to say that you're an auto repair shop, but you would be missing out on a huge potential search volume if you also didn't optimize around the term "car repair".
If you are using a tactic that can get your client’s site thrown out of the index and they do not know, you are not a black hat SEO. Did the index suffer because Overstock was there? Now, since a site can even be removed from the index, if found...
The change will allow search results pages to show up in Google’s index, though user search is still disallowed. Twitter’s instructions now tell Google it’s OK for them to crawl and index more of the site.
DuckDuckGo gets its results from over 50 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (in our own index), Yahoo! Our long-term goal is to get you information from that best source, ideally in instant answer form.
The bill was due, and they were either heavily penalized, or outright flushed from the index. But, once you have recovered you will be in a much better spot to drive the long term growth of your business.
While conducting your audit, it's critical to look for 301s and 302s as search engines will index the final URL destination and since 302 is a temporary or page level directive crawlers will ignore the temporary directive.
