SEO
30+ Ways to Get Natural Links (from MozCon 2012)
Here are my notes from an excellent talk by Paddy Moogan, Lead SEO Consultant at Distilled (@paddymoogan | Google+ profile) Linkbuilding: It’s not that easy! It’s …
Google Authorship: Does It Affect Search Rankings? Google Official Speaks Out
In a new interview on Search Engine Journal, we get some updated insights into the current state of the Google Authorship project from Google Director of ...
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Google+ Events vs. Facebook Events: King of Virtual & King of IRL
My first thought about the new Google+ Events was that no matter how slick and cool it is, this is one feature that could be hurt ...
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Google Testing +1 Button with Site Content Recommendations
In an email to the Google+ Platform Preview group today, Google announced that the following +1 button test, is now visible on the web to ...
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Three Backlinking Mistakes to Avoid
See this post for more details, but the three mistakes are: Assuming backlinks will just “appear.” (You have to work for them, even for the white ...
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How to Own the First Page of Google
(Note: The following post, while accurate in what it presents, is not meant to claim that one can dominate the first page of Google the ...
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How Do I Know What Links To Remove?
For the past six weeks I have been trying to help site owners in the Google’s Webmaster Central. Many of the sites were sailing along ...
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Google+ Posts in Google Search: Powerful But Flawed Search Results
After nearly a year of extensive testing, I have absolutely no doubts about the power of a Google+ profile or page to influence Google search ...
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Google+ Local: Full Integration of Google Places into Google Plus
Starting today, Google+ users are seeing a new tab in the left sidebar: Local. Clicking Google+ Local takes the user to a special search page, ...
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Small businesses devastated in the wake of Penguin tsunami
For the past few days I have been on a mission of mercy down at the epicenter of the fallout from latest Google update. The ...
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SEO Correlation Studies and the Dangers of the SEO News Cycle
Following up on a delicious rant on Google+ about sloppy use of correlation studies in the SEO & Internet marketing worlds by my friend Corey ...
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Google+ Posts in Google Knowledge Graph Results
Two days ago Google announced the roll out of it’s new Knowledge Graph search results. (See ” The Google Knowledge Graph“) Knowledge Graph is Google’s ...
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Find and Fix Unnatural Links
If your site was hit by Google’s dreaded Penguin update, there is hope, but it’s going to take a little bit of work to get ...
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The Future’s Most Coveted Position: Social Media Copywriter?
Everyone in the SEO world says it: “content is king.” This has been the golden rule for those “in the know” in SEO for years ...
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