Instead of peppering links to the videos throughout the story, they place the videos right after the new feature article but within the top fold of the page so your eye is drawn down to the rest of the content.
And if that’s a short term revenue hit, then that might be okay, right, because people are going to be coming back to Google long term. And not only do we not think that way in the search quality team, we’re more than happy to make changes which...
Stuff that makes people sit up and take notice of you? Most people say that you have no right to complain if you haven't voted right? He says that the people who don't vote have the most right to complain since they are not responsible for anyone...
There's a lot of panic and turmoil right now in the world of link building, but there doesn't have to be – you just have to learn how to be a badass link builder. A few years ago, link builders never gave that kind of stuff a second thought – it's...
In fact there was even talk of exact numbers of too much and too little, but you could still keyword stuff if you did it right. At first the algorithm couldn't pick this up and people would stuff relevant content in the page backgrounds, while...
In fact, link building is still legal (the referenced post was +1'ed by Google's John Mueller), you just have to go about it the right way. You would be impressed, right? Your content will be the stuff that everyone wants to reference, and these...
Pair access to these goods with the innate desire for free stuff, and you have a match made in heaven – publicists can motivate publishers to provide coverage while the publisher walks away with free gear.
And if it's hard to accomplish and requires a lot of planning and synergy on your end, then you're probably doing it right. The real shame of the press release for links trend was all the sad attempts to drum up "news" or keyword stuff a headline.
Perhaps, you can’t think of something new to say, or can’t find the right angle or you’re fed up recycling the same stuff as everybody else. Well, how about an immediate source of great well-crafted stories, quotes from company CEOs, opinions from...
That leads us right into the second reason, which is that bidding allows you to gain control. It's awesome to be able to look at all of your products within Google product listing ads, figure out the right bid, see how that product is converting...
Scary stuff isn't it? Sounds great, right? What they think is the bottom line when it comes right down to it. We all know that. However, in the rush to get those rankings (that lead to converting traffic of course) webmasters and business owners...
In the days before Panda, you could take a really bad website, stuff it with keywords, point the right links to it and rank number one for "name any keyword. Give away free stuff: The key here is that it has to be useful.
Note that I did not even bother with sites that have lots of footer links, lots of links on the right rail of pages, links from foreign language sites, links from markets where you don't sell/promote your stuff, etc.
Touching more on the brand social presence piece, Boggs went on to say that if you already have your Google+ Business page showing up on the right side of your brand search results, you have the ability to directly communicate in real-time with...
If you’re at work, you know there are things that you could be doing right now to improve your website’s SEO. Chances are you probably have a social network open in another browser tab right now as you're reading this, and you've probably checked...
This is pretty easy stuff still. You will typically find a jump in CTR of 10x-15x by getting into the banner, compared to the right hand side or bottom of the page. That simplicity of concept lures campaign managers and clients into...
If the content is engaging and answers a searchers question, it's good stuff. DF: The ability to help people get to the right results for them is expanding daily in large part to social. We discussed the overlap between social and search, and why...
When Yoda encourages Luke Skywalker to persist in his attempt to lift his ship out of the swamp in "The Empire Strikes Back", Luke shrugs his reluctant acquiescence: "All right, I’ll give it a try. After all, to be in control, by definition, means...
When you're blogging for your current visitors (i.e.visitors that entered outside your blog or who know you already and simply use your blog as an information source) the key is no longer to post daily updates on daily deals or the such, that's...
The right tools combined with the right SEO intelligence can yield incredible results. The right implementation of various tags, scripts, etc.is critically important. Sometimes this code is benign (mistakenly hidden), and sometimes it’s more...
