Facebook Graph Search is also becoming increasingly important, since Facebook is one of the top ranked and indexed sites on the web. When it comes to your efforts as a marketer, hopefully you have a clear understanding of your audiences and who you...
Numerous "search results" pages were indexed and driving loads of traffic but no sales. A lot of bad traffic coming to the site (bots/"search" pages de-indexed) had been removed, so year-over-year organic traffic was going to show a decline.
At its core, Google Webmaster Tools is all about metrics: what's getting indexed, what's getting linked, and what's getting traffic. The toolset gives you insights into what pages have been indexed on your site, what links are pointing to it, your...
Note: Although we are working hard to get your new pins indexed as quickly as we can, keep in mind that there will be up to a couple of days delay before your new pins can be searched. Pinterest is launching all sorts of goodies this year, with its...
Also problematic are links from sites infected with malware, and pages that are no longer indexed. Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts promised the new generation of Penguin would go deeper, and it seems to have lived up to that promise.
On-site and off-site indexed pages Number of indexed pages. New Content Being Indexed and Ranked Identify new on-site and off-site pages that are being ranked and indexed. With the challenging landscape of SEO comes the challenging landscape of SEO...
Repurposing a byline article as a PDF in automation outreach that doesn't get indexed or republished. Turning a video interview into a summarized blog post (published and indexed) along with a guide (not published or indexed and used for MA).
Too many links from sites not indexed in Google. I love generating a list of backlinks and digging through them to get an idea of what a client has so that I can figure out what a client needs to do. I love all the cool charts that certain tools...
Google frowned on this practice and de-indexed some well-known sites, back in the Good Ol' Days. As the SEO rumor mill spun this week with murmurs of the arrival of yet another significant Google update, I began to think back on all this year's...
M.A.consultant, defending work that resulted in over 45,000 broken pages, tons of pages not being indexed in Google, and a cost-per-conversion that had only increased over the last 4 years. We have seen:
If your content can't be found, read, recognized, categorized, indexed and the search result display isn't inspiring clicks in the first place, its potential awesomeness is severely limited. A couple of years ago, Scott Stratten of "Unmarketing...
While all the URLs you discover might not be indexed in search engines, this list will show you what you're putting out there for crawler consumption. Is it Indexed? Now, take some of the folder names and page names found above and perform a site...
Just make sure the staging domain cannot be indexed by search engines! It's the digital reflection of your brand. Launching a new website isn't just about updating your CMS and content, it's also a brand refresh – your opportunity to reshape your...
Properly building an XML Sitemap and submitting it to Google is one of the fastest ways to get your content indexed and is often overlooked (this is a must read). Search engine optimization (SEO) professionals, web designers, and bloggers read a...
If a URL isn't indexed it will never be shown in any SERP. When new pages and posts are created it may take some time for that new URL to be indexed by search engines (depending on the site’s crawl rate).
Members of the network are indexed in Google, ranking for key terms and their brand, not excessively cross-linked to other network member sites, don't share the same ip address with the majority of the sites, aren't all owned by the same person or...
How to Implement Video Microdata for Google but we don't have to worry about that because we review webmaster tools' accounts regularly to keep track of how our site is indexed, what urls are in our XML sitemap, and we always make sure we're not...
Neglecting core SEO tasks may result in losing out on the long-term benefits that can accrue out of all the social media efforts, as all social media signals may not get passed on and get correlated to the site if it isn't being regularly crawled...
The wherecomponent relies on core optimization, the site's ability to be properly indexed and cataloged, and whether its content is relevant to the user query. Last month we talked about offsite engagement for awareness, appearing at the right...
Google's algorithm works to predict search queries in real-time based on indexed web pages, personalized search history, other users' search activity, and Google+ (for person's name). Billions of searches are conducted each day on popular search...
