Quoting from Danny Goodwin's post last week, these were the common link issues that caused drops in ranking: Links from dangerous sites. Guest posts on questionable sites. Article marketing sites. Web marketing has seen incredible growth and...
Are the sites that link to your pages relevant, trusted, and credible domains, or are they chiefly derived from $50 guest post bio links in irrelevant content on irrelevantly themed sites? We use Qualaroo and it’s helped us raise conversions across...
For example, if the post is not relevant to your site, or the site is not relevant to your post, don't do it. In addition, the links you get your clients should always be simple attribution links at the bottom of the post.
It's everything from a massive site like Wikipedia to a single tweet to a Facebook wall post to a G+ update to a mobile app to a PDF document to a YouTube channel. The A-list blogs will be highly coveted destinations and pursued for guest post...
Can you write an article and place it as a guest post on an authoritative site? Links remain the main signal search engines use to determine which of those 388,000 sites shows up on the first page of results.
No matter what your viewpoint or angle, there is always a cause and a consequence – a theme you'll notice recurring throughout this post. Updates such as Caffeine and Google Panda reduced rankings for low quality sites and improved rankings for...
To rank #1 for a keyword, you must deserve to be above all other relevant sites; you must own the best piece of relevant content on the web. As we’ve been preaching to clients that good content is honest content, I thought why not post-mortem our...
Whether it’s social media submissions, social sharing, blog coverage/roundups – they’ve all been linked to because the post has got the attention of a person, who has liked this content and then linked to it.
The next time you read or write a misinterpreted “Jarring and Jolting” doom and gloom post or cry that the sky is falling, consider the effect on the SEO industry as a whole. More challenging, though, is getting a bigger picture of the impact...
These changes rolled out very recently, and their launch language was approved after the cutoff date where we were finalizing the blog post," a Google spokesperson told Search Engine Watch. We’ve asked Cutts for clarification and will update the...
Currently 46 percent of Internet users post original photos and video they’ve created themselves online. Search Engine Watch has recently published global market share information available for these sites, for interested readers.
The move toward an evolving tolerance of web readers has been driven by web sites like Buzzfeed who have made strong commitments to user experience and by sites like Reddit whose communities don't tolerate shenanigans.
This post came to me a few days ago as I sat in a pub at an informal SEO meet up. Before diving into this lengthy post, I want to attempt to sum up with a 10,000 foot view of my thoughts on how link building is changing in light of the Penguin update.
Jonathan Allen also contributed to this post. These sites provide verifiable data that Google can use to and establish connections and relationships between an entity, in this case, Search Engine Watch.
As for potential social signals that could be used for search rankings, Bill Slawski highlighted a post about Google's acquisition of some Groupivity/Appmail patents. Google has said in the past that they "(.do compute and use author quality and...
Google’s Senior VP Amit Singhal has already hit back with a blog post of his own to set the record straight – from Google’s perspective anyway. Specifically, Google is under antitrust scrutiny for the way it displays links to its own vertical...
As this post leans more toward the strategic rather than the tactical I am only going to mention black and white animals briefly. This is not, however, the subject of this post. New Google Search Algorithm Update Targets Web Spam
In the example below you can see that the post author is nameless (simply 'admin'), and the related posts are completely unrelated to any other content or theme of the site. My personal position is that if you are not actively participating in a...
To learn more about best practices for title tag element, our post “How to Write Title Tags For Search Engine Optimization” tells you everything you need to know. For more on the history of meta tags, see our post “Death of a Meta Tag”.
Post them on YouTube, embed the YouTube code on your site, transcribe the video with a cheap tool like CastingWords, post the transcribed content on your blog for search engines to grab. Then create a follow-up post announcing the results from your...
