If you write a blog post, you’ve got something to say, you’re not just creating words and synonyms. Bing Offers– Discover Deals from Across the Web in One Place – Bing Search BlogIt's pretty much Bing Deals (R.I.P.but with a new name and a bit more...
We wrote a detailed post about how to perform a content audit and establish an inventory (you can download our template here). But, this post isn't a lesson in SEO. This section deserves it's own post, but there are a few things to point out.
I asked a few prominent SEO professionals their opinions on what the key indicator of spam was in researching this post and almost all pointed to anchor text. To paraphrase Google’s web spam lead Matt Cutts the algorithm filter has "iterated" to...
Including rich anchor text links inside a guest post If the New York Times accepted a guest post from you, what are the chances that they would let you load rich anchor text links inside your post back to the blatant money-making page on your site?
Relaunched exactly a year ago, via a quick post on Hacker News, Walling's new HitTail has suffered no downtime and the improved database means current customers have seen their keyword suggestions increase ten fold.
Can you write an article and place it as a guest post on an authoritative site? If this is one of your products, at a minimum, you need a page dedicated to left-handed golf clubs where the search phrase "left handed golf clubs" is featured in the...
As we’ve been preaching to clients that good content is honest content, I thought why not post-mortem our performance in public and let the data serve as a vehicle to describe how we’ll be approaching SEO in 2013?
Then why not write a blog post which outlines your "takeaway points"? These questions can be used as the basis for a blog post, SlideShare, video, or even white paper. If content curation seems like too much of a time investment, you may want to...
If you've agreed to do a guest post series on someone's blog, don't make the webmaster track you down when the next installment is due, or you may find yourself out of a slot. If I see a blog post that is relevant to my topic, has ongoing relevant...
Google's interaction designer, Noah Levin, claimed that the update means results will update with each letter added, though we still saw a slight delay when typing in a blog post announcing the launch of the application.
I often say, ‘If a company doesn't have anything interesting to say, they have bigger problems to solve than where their next blog post is coming from,’ Odden responded. Web analytics can reveal questions people most often use on Google that send...
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”.
If a blog post, then to industry specific blog sites that your prospects will visit The idea of building out a hierarchy of web presence optimization (WPO) comes from the belief that basic fundamentals are required before organic search success can...
As Cutts recounts in a blog post, he and some members at PubCon 2006 were sitting around the lunch room after a QBig Daddy” because that’s what his kids called him. Bourbon was one of the first updates to really target content scrapers and rogue...
If you could write a post that provides resourceful information for your target audience, and showcases your thought-leadership, it’s a win-win. For those who don’t, Cutts is the head of the web Spam team at Google.
Far noted in his post that the reduced crawl rate shouldn't have long-term effects and crawling should return to normal within a few days. It's worth noting, though, that users may have simply waited a day to post their listings.
This could happen when something might have been copied pursuant to fair use, or by the actions of someone providing user generated content (for example, in a comment on a blog, a post on a forum, a video that includes part or all of a copyrighted...
UPDATE: For more on this topic, see our in-depth post, "SOPA Explained: Why It’s Bad for the Web & How to #StopSOPA". There’s no need to make American social networks, blogs and search engines censor the Internet or undermine the existing laws that...
In another thinly veiled jab at their competitors in the social arena, Google wrote in their blog post about the release: What do you think of Google’s new vision for search, is it the next logical step or are they treading further into antitrust...
Meanwhile, in another post on the YouTube Blog, “Welcome to the future of video. Midway through a post that proclaimed "Music videos now on YouTube app for Android," was the really important news for marketers: “YouTube now exceeds 200 million...
