I’ve been watching the columns, SEO publications and blogs, and Matt Cutts closely – and here are the definitive messages from Penguin 2.0: His intentions are clearly good (i.e.wanting better search results for end-users), but is he pushing the...
I've rarely seen a brand or business use this tactic as it is often a tactic used by personal blogs. I put together a list of the top 10 gardening and shed blogs in the UK and let people vote for their favourite site.
If your CEO is going to create video blogs, create your recording schedule and introduce him or her to the tools that will be used. Provide a Game Plan give them a fresh background and profile image – and show them who they should be following...
Despite the inherent "SEO value" of blogging, many blogs just aren't properly optimized for search, or aren't optimized to their fullest potential. As such, these blogs aren't working as hard as they could be for an organization from an SEO...
You know, like spam comment in your forums or blogs? These are actual titles from article in the top search results for [content marketing and SEO]. It always has been, and always will be – well, at least until the search engines don't use...
Link farms and spam blogs aren't going to help you, regardless of their PageRank or domain authority. You might search [recording equipment “write for us”] or any variation. We can't rely on spam and automation to boost traffic and search rankings...
You've surely run across sites that have a footer full of 100 unrelated links or a blogroll that has 20 links to payday loans sites mixed in with links to eco blogs and a few gambling companies. Many penalized profiles tend to have a lot of spammy...
Not stopping at technical SEO, Jones includes content on creating blogs and other online communities. The third edition of his "Search Engine Optimization: Your visual blueprint for effective Internet marketing" is fabulous for budding SEOs, and...
These lines have blurred so much, in fact, that most traditional journalism publications have blogs (example 1, example 2, example 3). With the rise of digital publicists – especially now that the group encompasses not only traditional PR firms...
They now include not just straight news sources, but also blogs and alternative news sites. Since launching universal search results in 2007, Google has been integrating many more non-traditional search results, adding videos, news stories, sports...
In addition to providing Webmaster Tools, Google provides resources including articles, forums, blogs, and videos. Not getting the search traffic you were hoping for? Do your pages use the words people search for?
However, keep in mind that Quora is a relatively new entrant and while Quora has attempted to add users through new offerings such as publishing blogs, quality still trumps quality on Quora. Use this guide to get more clarity on the benefits of...
When blogs hit the scene, we launched the BOTW Blog Directory to help bloggers connect with an audience. GH: We launched the BOTW Media Network about seven years ago, a network of blogs publishing content on approximately 60 topics.
You could list all your social profiles, blogs and websites, post photos and videos, map places you've lived for your entire life, provide your address and contact information – all in one spot. Cutts made another remark in that same SES keynote...
Created dummy blogs with robot-generated text. Isn't one in a series of over-optimized anchor text on irrelevant blogs and forgotten directories. Spammed blogs with comments. How do we, as search marketing professionals, defeat the legacy of spam?
Guest posts: This one is a little tricky, as I'm referring to real blogs and not the "made for guest post "blogs. Blogs in which all of the content is created by a "guest". Blogs which allow unnatural links in the content or the author bio.
You don't have to stick to just other catering or food-related blogs. You can hit the mommy bloggers (meals on the go), fitness blogs (a post on gluten-free or raw cooking), DIY/craft blogs (how to organize a kids birthday party on the cheap...
Give away websites (Freecycle, Fiverr, mom blogs…) Generally, a structured citation has the schema.org mark-up, which allows the search engine spiders across Google, Bing and Yahoo to read the data. Google Places was recently replaced with Google...
To build a relationship with the editors of blogs, Orabrush has also created customized videos like this one for Rob Beschizza, managing editor of Boing Boing. And each time, attendees of the leading global event series about search and social...
Blogs (if you’re doing it right) are a more active type of medium versus your website, as the messaging on your website tends to be more static and doesn't get updated as often. Since YouTube is owned by Google, creating video content and...
