Every now and again you might feel like you're just scraping the surface with your performance analysis, however, and your gut will tell you that there might be a deeper root cause that needs to be uncovered.
So Bing is not scraping from Google or Google+. SEOs have been saying that authorship markup and other rich snippets are the future of SEO. The underlyings of authorship markup on Google link directly to Google+, where your identity has been verified.
They appear to use aggressive spam techniques such as automatically generated gibberish, cloaking and scraping content from other websites. Google has launched a new website called How Search Works. One feature SEOs may want to check out is the...
Going to the same places, using the same footprints and scraping the same advanced search parameters will only result in obtaining the same links as everyone else. The concept of actually communicating with a human being to build links has...
There are a variety of SERP scraping tools to show your complete organic visibility, but SEMrush is optimal for this. The day-to-day grind for many SEO professionals often involves honing in on the same set of targeted keywords, likely outdated, or...
For many this signified a tipping point and choice between scraping or having access to the Google adwords API. Well, 2012 has been one of hell a ride for the search marketer. The only way to describe it is a series of ups and downs, thrills and...
In the news segment of the show, Craver and Miller discussed Facebook's recent site scraping issue. Over 1.1 million user IDs and email were sold and Facebook claims it was a public-side scraping, despite evidence the information came from the API...
The problem, as we spoke with Facebook about yesterday and again today, is that we also obtained the file in question and it seems highly unlikely the leak was the work of an individual scraping the Facebook website for publicly available email...
Limit the pages to be crawled in any way you see fit, as it is typically in everyone’s best interest to avoid scraping the entire Internet. This article is a simple breakdown of how to go about using an SEO site crawler to quickly identify...
Is duplicate content, scraping, all that is included in Google’s Quality Guidelines more of a factor in the Penguin update than the SEO community considered? Unknown scraping efforts are, in my opinion, more dangerous than incidental on-site...
In fact going throw some controversy in the mix, if any other site did this, Google would be called “blackhatting” “scraping” or many terms usually reserved for “SPAM”, but this is Google and whatever you think of it, there is no getting away from...
Just because a site's scraping content or spamming doesn't necessarily mean that they're part of a link network. Google has always claimed to be able to find networks of bad links (link farms, etc) algorithmically, although many in the SEO...
Utilize a site scraping tool that will run through your site and create an exportable list of all site URLs. One of the many important on-page SEO elements is having a keyword-relevant URL for a given site page.
There are also lists, glorious lists ripe and succulent for the scraping. Using tools is a necessity for client link building. But how, why, when and who should use them? What follows is a list of some helpful link building tools you can use day in...
Now, rather than manually scraping the SERPs, you can automate the process with a slick tool like the Link Prospector from Citation Labs. There's no denying it: coming up with solid topic ideas for content and linkable assets on a consistent basis...
Content: Spam/keyword stuffing, hidden text, duplication/scraping. In looking back at my recent posts here it seems, though not by design, there was a theme emerging. Have a look. Google Penalty or Algorithm Change: Dealing With Lost Traffic...
For example, the domain classifieds1000.com seems to be scraping or otherwise not something I care about. That others can indeed affect your rankings with bad links. Otherwise known as "negative SEO. And this time it's going to be damned hard to...
Content: Spam/keyword stuffing, hidden text, duplication/scraping. Duplication (scraping and attribution) In most cases, mayhem ensues as they scramble around to try and figure out what happened or if they have run afoul of the mighty Google in one...
Though I still scrape SERPs for link prospects, I've learned to supplement this method by searching for and scraping lists of websites. Because I hand-build links at relatively large scale, and always look for ways to go bigger, I must continually...
Cloaking, paid links, scraping, keyword stuffing; Google fought these and largely saw their best interests served. As the never-ending battle of search engines vs.marketers marches on, it occurs to me that (in some instances, at least) only half...
