Thankfully, reader gives an average posts / week for each feed, and I could work out how long I had been subscribed to each feed by looking at dates of the first post starred in that feed and the most recent.
Plus, it gauges how well a piece could do if it's a very popular post. Consider the topical relevancy of post-engagement factors: A lot has changed in the search engine optimization (SEO) industry during the past year.
If not, broken links can lead to a poor user experience while also inhibiting the search engine bots from effectively crawling your site. This post won't cover every coding problem you can find that impacts SEO, but it does cover some of the most...
They use the restricted .gov top-level domain, they tend to have many inbound links from other authoritative sites, and they are typically well established, indexable, and content-rich – all prized elements in the eyes of the search engine ranking...
The time is now to get more eyeballs on the both the content we create (such as a blog post or an infographic) and the content we earn (such as a news article or feature on Forbes.com, IndustryWeek, American Medical News or the like).
Main Content: This could be in the form of a news article or a blog post, information about a product, a video, a tool, a search box, or a log-in. Post questions and answers As a reminder, Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts insists that...
They also promote the heck out of our business in general, whether it's through tweeting links to our blog posts, asking for the company's opinion in a Facebook post, or just generally telling people about the office and helping recruit new staff.
Industry news - use Google Alerts to deliver relevant headlines to your inbox and write a roundup post regularly. Tell a fascinating story by relating the lesson or “moral” of your post to one from a famous fairy tale.
First up is the news result, including a post about it being the top pirated TV show. Next up is news and Mashable followed up by YouTube video links. Following that you get NHL news links and a bunch of other common sites like Wikipedia and sports...
A post earlier this week, “SEO, Why You Are Doing it Wrong,” attempted to educate SMB owners about search engine optimization and Google rankings by examining one business who engaged in spammy tactics and was impacted by Penguin.
For example, this Warrior Forum post is from someone who was nailed for “unnatural” link building because he built links a bit too quickly. A recent Search Engine Watch forums post made public an email that went out from another big retailer – Home...
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. Run a big best blogs in your niche type post featuring a...
I went far enough down that road to have considered Dave Naylor’s post on how Google evaluates links, but it just doesn’t seem to make sense in this case. We often use characteristics of links to help us figure out the topic of a linked page.
For more on some of the issues with bounce rates and implicit feedback, there are a ton of papers at the end of this post.Another interesting part of personalization in search, for Google at least, is what is known as 'Personalized PageRank'.
An old blog post with accidental keyword focus on a domain with little relevant links to it. My domain has 200 links to it from various news articles, directories, business partners, customers, and blogs.
When developing your focused keyword list around the blog post topic, make sure to do a sanity check and confirm that consumers are actually using these keywords to search for your product/service. Inbound links are essential for boosting the...
Go beyond the run-of-the-mill press release or "look at us" blog post and produce content that your target market will find helpful or entertaining -- the kind of stuff that users will be likely to share via Twitter (and other channels).
SEOptimise last week had a good post on the benefits of fixing broken links, as well as some helpful link tools. Newsletters featuring top deals or news are a great non-Google way to drive traffic. This isn't to help your organic rankings, as it's...
The first is BuzzStream's recently-released (and inspiration for this post! Find well-tended and high-authority collections of links to information on a common topic. There you have it -- you've now counted the number of co-citations of outbound...
A quick backlink check reveals that more than 124 links are pointing to this post. Relevant external links from sites outside your domain are one of the most important factors in determining your relevancy in natural search engine results.
