The closer your site is to those documents the better the neighborhood. If I was asked what my money was on, I would say we will see a tightening of what is an allowable level of spam still further, some attempt to begin measuring link authority by...
Press websites refuse to link out, even to accredited sources and webmasters nofollow links in case they "leak PageRank" or link to a "bad neighborhood". Search Engine Watch (SEW) asked the organizers of these Meetup groups five questions about hot...
While you probably won't find random Microsoft employees offering this in your neighborhood, today Microsoft is launching the Bing It On sweepstakes. Speaking to Search Engine Watch, Bing Director Stephan Weitz referenced the survey results and...
Also, positions 8-10 combine for somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 percent of clicks (according to Slingshot SEO) to 8 percent of clicks (according to Optify). For example, let’s look at the seven results returned for Search Engine Watch:
If you wanted to promote a local Chinese food delivery place that had a delivery radius of 5 miles, you wouldn't be dropping menus at a neighborhood 20 miles away would you? Watch your links and just generally keep an eye on things.
Perhaps a site Google views unfavorably has scraped your content, and is now either linking to you with some sort of “credit” or it failed to remove an internal link to your site from within the copy text, and now that link from a bad neighborhood...
To avoid a bad neighborhood. Search Engine Watch sat down recently with Sloof Lirpa, the reclusive founder and director of the Sloof Lirpa Center for the Study of Long Tail Profitability. You can watch the video interview that is embedded in this...
Of course, Google owns somewhere in the neighborhood of 97-98 percent of mobile search traffic. Among the highlights: percent of residents own a smartphone.percent of smartphone users use a search engine at least one time per week.percent of...
Within about an hour or less, from New York, searching all these realtime channels had provided me a view from the streets of their neighborhood. Also useful, were Ultra Knowledge, incidentally the team behind the new Search Engine Watch, also made...
Someone can hack your links, make it look like they come from a bad neighborhood, and down your website goes. You just need to know enough, so you know what to watch for and how to control the damage if it happens to you.
With the philosophy of "you know your neighborhood best," Google wants everyone to jump online to tag their favorite bike paths, coffee shops, college buildings and more. If you don't want to edit, using Google Earth you can watch others as they...
Ranking takes time, not only because the process for growing a link profile is slow, but also because the actual scoring factors of a link (internal PageRank, anchor text, context, neighborhood, relevance, recency, transience) need to be aged and...
Related Sites: Your site's neighborhood is still meaningful mozRank. Editor's note: As 2010 winds down, we're celebrating the Best of 2010, our top 10 most popular columns of the year on Search Engine Watch, as determined by our readers.
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood: growing in Pittsburgh - Official Google Blog Promising a truly personalized experience in announcing the beta, Yahoo hopes this service will help users discover and contribute to local news, deals, and...
You live in small communities, and you are very interested in what happens in those communities from police blotters to what happened in the city council or the neighborhood watch. Lately, you need a chart to keep track of the talent Yahoo has lost...
It doesn't matter what kind of arrangement you make, it matters that you're thinking about links in terms of your own neighborhood. Things to Watch Out for When Link Building But what really is the function of relevance in link building?
The same kind of analysis can be used on the neighborhood you're placing your link. You find a beautiful piece of land in what looks like a good neighborhood. Whenever you're link building and looking for the most relevant, high quality web pages...
In other words, the system can be gamed when I can unlock deals by checking-in to my neighborhood bar every day from my living room couch. Search Engine Watch readers will know the latter as the act of clicking on links in order to drive up what...
a neighborhood soccer match, or the extraordinary -- Internet User Experience 2010 at Morris Lawrence Building Auditorium in Ann Arbor, MI, the 'Masters of Influence' Breakthrough Skills Seminar at the Hilton London Islington in London, or Black...
Common links (checking out the neighborhood). It's my first post for Search Engine Watch, and I'm thrilled to be joining the great team of bloggers here; some of whom I know personally and some I'm looking forward to getting to know (now that we...
