Search Engine Submission Services? DON’T – Here’s Why…
This is a short post – and a very basic post – but a needed one. Think of this like a PSA that is attempting to pay it forward to new marketers everywhere. In doing some keyword research today, I was a little startled to see tens of thousands of searches being performed around the […]
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New Domain Extensions (gTLDs) Could Change Everything
A slew of now top level domains are coming, thanks to a bold move by ICANN originally intended to spur innovation on the web. “What would you do if you could register any top level domain“, they asked the world’s entrepreneurs. Free of constraints of name availability on the standard dot com and other top […]
Google changes – Results for similar searches
I haven’t seen this before, It would appear that Google have started replacing some organic positions with Results for similar searches : https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=how+to+ask+a+guy+for+his+jacket Dave Google changes – Results for similar searches is a post from: Dave Naylor’s SEO Blog.
Google changes – Results for similar searches is a post from: Dave Naylor’s SEO Blog.
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Jack Wills Best Summer Job – Data Leaked
A friend of mine was voting for his friend on a contest for a Jack Wills Summer Job (http://www.jackwills.com/en-gb/bestsummerjob and #BSJIGB on Twitter) on Tuesday and as a web developer he was curious what voting system they were using and in fairness so was I. Armed with his developers toolkit he decided to go take […]
Jack Wills Best Summer Job – Data Leaked is a post from: Dave Naylor’s SEO Blog.
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Scraping for Dummies with Outwit (a Marketer’s Best Friend)
Pulling data sucks. It’s mind-numbing. Outwit is a fantastic tool that’s saved me hours of manually pulling data and helped build links, create assets, identify architecture issues and so much more. Outwit is meant for non-programmers. It is great for: – harvesting infographic data that might not be easily accessible – pulling prices from websites […]
Bing People Snippets
This morning (thanks to a tip from Search Engine Roundtable) I began researching what looked like authorship snippets on Bing. While it’s only been an hour or so here’s what I’ve seen and what I think I’ve figured out. People Snippets The new faces (for the most part) showing up in Bing search results are […]
Bing People Snippets is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.
Build Your Authority Not Your Author Rank
It’s been a frustrating few weeks of discussion about Authorship and Author Rank. Here I will present a few things that may give you some more context overall and, in particular, my point of view on things. Social Computing Research Just the other day Google revealed that it gave $1.2 million dollars in awards to […]
Build Your Authority Not Your Author Rank is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.
HTTP 503: Handling site maintenance correctly for SEO
Last week I got a few messages from Google Webmaster Tools, saying it couldn’t access the robots.txt file on a site of a client. Turns out the client didn’t handle scheduled downtime correctly, causing problems with Google. While this article covers some rather basic technical SEO the last bit might be interesting for more advanced…
HTTP 503: Handling site maintenance correctly for SEO is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.
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MajesticSEO Get Approval of Firefox Add-On, Release Due Monday
We have just been told in great authority that MajesticSEO are set to announce their brand new Firefox Add-On version of their tool, further increasing the compatibility of one of the most powerful SEO tools on the market today. Although MajesticSEO ha…
RSS the SEO’s Worst Nightmare !
Sometimes the things that Google do just make my head hurt, aka “the unnatural link warnings”. I am pretty sure most SEO agencies out there will have come across at least one of these, I know I have, and most new clients come with one these days. But I’m not too sure how many other […]
RSS the SEO’s Worst Nightmare ! is a post from: Dave Naylor’s SEO Blog.
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My SMX West 2013 Takeaways
I’m at the airport getting ready to head back home after spending 3 days in San Jose, California at SMX West. I figured I’d post a few of the things I found interesting as takeaways from the conference for those who weren’t able to attend. Tips & Tactics There are going to be a bit […]
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Local SEO made easy!
We’ve been hard at work here at Yoast.com, together with our good friend Arjan Snaterse, to complete the delivery of our next baby: the Local SEO plugin, which is, just like our Video SEO plugin, an extension to the WordPress SEO plugin. The Local SEO makes creating geo sitemaps and KML files a breeze, while…
Local SEO made easy! is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.
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Google Panda Update Coming and New Breed of Penguin Set To Exist
Website owners have lived in fear of the Google algorithmic updates since they began and with continuing improvements being added to the way that Google believe they should rank a website, indications from head of Google Web Spam team, Matt Cutts, reve…
The Advertorial earthquake has hit, is the Tsunami still to come
The fallout from last weeks “Advertorial” update have been well documented by many in the industry – with Interfloras fall from grace being probably the most high profile casualty. However a simple look around the search landscape would suggest they are not the only ones and the number of sites affected by the Googles focus […]
The focus keyword in WordPress SEO
This question pops up time and again: why can I only add one focus keyword to your SEO plugin? People seem to think they have to set several keywords for each post. This post explores the reasoning behind that, very deliberate, decision. This is the input field I’m talking about: The focus keyword is not…
The focus keyword in WordPress SEO is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.
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SEO isn’t dead, it’s merely evolving
I was until recently supposed to be speaking at this years LAC conference with a number of well respected SEO’s such as David Naylor, Nick Garner, Paul Reilly and Judith Lewis. I was fortunate enough to be asked to contribute to the IGB magazine as the topic as to whether or not SEO was dead […]
500 Website Reviews, what we’ve learned!
Over the last 3 years, we’ve sold & delivered 500 website reviews, selling our 500th today. I’m incredibly proud of this and wanted to share some of our learnings in this post, as well as announce some changes. Some stats on our website reviews I started doing these website reviews in 2010, finishing 42 of…
500 Website Reviews, what we’ve learned! is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.
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Experts Eye Series 2013 – Whats going to be big in search for 2013
2012 whichever which way, was a massive year – with our experts unanimously suggesting that Penguin was the biggest game changer during last year. There is no doubting the impact it had, to the point where one may argue that we saw the rise of the content marketing sector as an almost direct consequence thereof. […]
New Ways To Track Keyword Rank
Tracking keyword rank is as old as the SEO industry itself. But how you do (and use) it is changing. Are you keeping up? This post covers how I create and use rank indexes and introduces a new and improved way to track rank in Google Analytics. Rankaggedon In December of 2012 both Raven and Ahrefs […]
New Ways To Track Keyword Rank is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.
Expert Eye Series 2013 – What had the biggest impact on search/seo in 2012
2012 was an interesting year for search – and for both paid and organic search. We saw a number of significant changes to the Google interface, some major changes to the Google algorithms particularly around web spam detection and filtration – and also some significant product changes as Google looks to monetise previously unprofitable “organic” […]