Ready for Black Friday 2016? 3 critical e-commerce SEO configurations that help you avoid common issues

Columnist Aleyda Solis lays out critical tips for configuring your e-commerce website for SEO success this holiday season.

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Common Search: The open source project bringing back PageRank

Columnist JR Oakes explains Common Search, a great open source tool for understanding how search engines work, which has a hidden gem for those of us who miss checking our PageRank score.

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How to avoid an outbound link penalty from Google

We’ve all heard of unnatural link penalties from having a spammy backlink profile, but columnist Tony Edward notes that your site’s outbound links need to be monitored as well.

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Opinion: Google is biased toward reputation-damaging content

Why does reputation-damaging content seem to appear so quickly in Google’s search results? Columnist Chris Silver Smith outlines his theory on why Google’s algorithm can give negative content greater ranking ability than it deserves.

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A Penguin’s Tale: Responding to the latest update

What should SEOs do to make the best of the new Penguin update? Perhaps not much. Columnist Dave Davies notes that while Penguin 4.0 was indeed significant, things ultimately haven’t changed that much.

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SEO is not dead; it’s just a shape-shifter

Columnist Stephan Spencer talks about how search engine optimization has changed over the years, noting that it’s still very much alive — just vastly different from the way it once was.

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Enterprise SEOs, unite! The SMX East 2016 session recap

What are some of the issues unique to enterprise SEO professionals, and how can you best approach these challenges? Columnist Eric Enge reports on a session from SMX East which covers this topic.

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What Google’s experimental content podium means for SEO

What’s the deal with Google Posts? Columnist Tony Edwards explains this invite-only Google feature and discusses its potential implications for search marketers.

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Why Google’s quality updates should be on your algorithmic radar [Part 2]: The connection to low-quality user experience

In the second installment of his two-part series on Google’s quality updates (aka Phantom updates), columnist Glenn Gabe explains the connection between user experience and organic search performance.

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PPC + SEO = match made in marketing heaven

Are your SEO and PPC teams working in silos? Columnist Julian Connors discusses several ways SEO and PPC can combine efforts to improve their strategies and drive more conversions.

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Give Google a break: Tackling paid links is harder than you may think

Google is often criticized for how it handles spammy links, but columnist Ian Bowden believes this criticism may be unfair. Here, he takes a look at the challenges Google might face in tackling the ongoing issue of paid links.

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Authority & link building with real-time Penguin

Google recently released Penguin 4.0, and the Penguin filter now updates in real time. Columnist Marcus Miller explores what this means for SEO and link building.

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Prepping SEO for 2017: it’s all about the ROI

Tracking return on investment from SEO can be tricky, especially since it often assists other marketing channels. But columnist Janet Driscoll Miller lays out a plan for proving organic search’s ROI and securing budget for the next fiscal year.

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The four pillars of the future of SEO

What does the future of search engine optimization have in store for us? Columnist Pratik Dholakiya looks at recent trends to explain the direction our industry is headed in.

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6 reasons why SEO fails, and how you can succeed at it

Columnist Trond Lyngbø believes that SEO can be a powerful addition to your marketing mix, but its success will depend on how intelligently you invest in it.

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