How to Find Your Competitors Best Content (and Steal their Links)
URLProfiler is a new piece of software that’s guaranteed to save you a huge amount of time. Here’s just one example of how to use it…
Post from Matt Beswick on State of Digital
How to Find Your Competitors Best Content (and Steal their Links)
The War On Links
In case you didn’t notice, we are waging a war over links. Some would say that SEOs are at war with search engines, but I disagree. Search engines and SEOs have a symbiotic relationship; and without meaning to, we’ve killed the value of the link. The link, once a simple connector from…
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Authority Is The New Links: Reading Between The Lines Of Matt Cutts’ Guest Post Critique
The SEO industry has been all aflutter over the last few weeks, ever since Matt Cutts stated that guest blogging is dead. In The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO — a headline that is a particularly strong statement from Google’s Head of Webspam — Cutts essentially said…
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Best of 2013: No 10 – Best Easy step-by-step guide to finding low quality links
A step-by-step guide to finding what are likely to be low quality links. With steps, tools and examples.
Post from Paddy Moogan on State of Digital
Best of 2013: No 10 – Best Easy step-by-step guide to finding low quality links
Link Building At The Speed Of Natural
“Natural link building” has long been a sore spot (some would call it an oxymoron) among many in the online marketing community. The general argument goes something like this: “Any link that comes about because you pursued it cannot be considered natural.” or “The very…
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Moz Launches Google Alerts For New Links Named “Fresh Alerts”
Moz announced the launch of a new link and SEO tool feature called Fresh Alerts. Fresh Alerts is kind of like Google Alerts but specifically designed for SEOs and marketers to keep track of not just new web mentions but also new links pointing to your site or a competitor’s site. Moz’s…
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Majestic SEO Launches Search Explorer; SEO Link Tool Through Keyword Search
Majestic SEO, a popular link explorer tool for SEOs and webmasters, announced the launch of Search Explorer. Search Explorer is a search engine they designed to allow SEOs and webmasters to search by keyword or phrase, and the results would be ranked by Majestic SEO’s own linkage metrics. The…
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Majestic SEO to Build a Pure Link-Based Search Engine
Majestic 12, the UK company behind Majestic SEO, has announced its intention to expand in the search space with a new product, called Search Explorer
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Digital
Majestic SEO to Build a Pure Link-Based Search Engine
Google’s Matt Cutts: NoFollow Attributes On Internal Links Don’t Hurt But Generally Don’t Do It
In a video, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts published today Matt answered the question, “Should I use rel=”nofollow” on internal links to a login page?” Matt Cutts basically said you shouldn’t but said it won’t hurt you if you did. Matt said,…
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Google May Have Penalized Another Major Link Network: Ghost Rank 2.0
Google has significantly penalized another underground link network over the weekend and we believe that one of the link networks targeted by Google is named Ghost Rank 2.0. A few weeks ago, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, tweeted “Thinking of ghost-related puns for a spam…
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Google Webmaster Tools Now Provides Broader & More Diverse Link Data
Google announced today that the link data within Google Webmaster Tools is much broader, more diverse cross-section of links. What does that mean? Well, instead of showing you links in alphabetical order, exported in “lexicographical order” – Google is now showing you sample links…
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Gianluca Fiorelli’s Super Search Update – August edition
Gianluca Fiorelli shows you the best of the web when it comes to articles around search engine marketing.
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Gianluca Fiorelli’s Super Search Update – August edition
Gianluca Fiorelli’s Super Search Update – August edition
One of the nicest things for an Internet Marketer like me is that – even though the Internet never goes on vacation – at least your client yes. So, when clients are on holidays – hence not calling you every two days and you don’t have to write down reports every now and then – read more »
Post from Gianluca Fiorelli on State of Search
Gianluca Fiorelli’s Super Search Update – August edition
Google’s Matt Cutts: Nofollow Links Won’t Hurt You Unless You Are Spamming At A Huge Scale
In a video released today on the Google Webmaster Help YouTube channel, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts said typically links that are nofollowed can’t hurt your rankings in Google. That being said, while most cases are that links that have the nofollow attribute on them will…
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Bing Details Four Ways Not To Build Links
Duane Forrester, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, wrote a blog post on the Bing Webmaster Blog, detailing four ways you do not want to build links to your site. The four ways not to build links by Bing include: (1) Blind Requests: Don’t simply mass or template email web sites blindly…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: I Recommend NoFollowing Links On Widgets
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer this morning strongly recommending those who place widgets on their site or those who distribute widgets should place a nofollow on the links within the widget code. Matt Cutts said, “I would recommend putting a nofollow,…
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Google’s Cutts: Got Bad Links To Your Site? Don’t Fret It, Disavow It!
In a recent video answer from Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, Matt said if you have bad links pointing to your site, don’t worry about it, all you need to do is disavow those links. Matt Cutts said, “just go ahead and disavow those links,” even if they those…
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Google Warns Against Large-Scale Guest Posting, Advertorials & “Optimized Anchor Text” In Press Releases
Google has quietly updated the link schemes document under their Webmaster guidelines to add large-scale guest posting, advertorials and optimized anchor text in articles or press releases to the list of types of links that violate their guidelines. Th…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Linking 20 Domains Together Likely A “Cross Linking Scheme”
A common question I see from webmasters and SEOs is how many sites in my network can I link together without getting in trouble. Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, answered a question on that topic in a recent video which asked “If I have 20 domains, should I link them all…
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Gianluca Fiorelli’s Super Search Update – June edition
What’s been happening in Search this June? Gianluca takes us through the main points
Post from Gianluca Fiorelli on State of Search
Gianluca Fiorelli’s Super Search Update – June edition