Google Now Lets You Disavow Links
At Matt Cutts emphasized in a nine-minute video, this is an advanced tool, and should not be used unless you’re absolutely certain that spammy links sit at the root of your rankings problems. I lost...
View ArticleThe Subtle SEO Aspects of Site Design
I’ve covered the question of whether you should choose a plain or fancy website design recently. This issue, however, is a bit more subtle. A site can look horrible for a number of reasons that have...
View ArticleImprove Your Website Content With These Tips
Sadly, there’s more than one kind of crappy content. For some reason, despite spelling checkers, bad spelling runs rampant on the Internet. Bad grammar also shows up far too often. But there is one...
View ArticleHow Blogging Enhances Your Local SEO
Chris Silver Smith covers this very well in a guest post for Search Engine Land. He makes the case that many local businesses aren’t blogging yet, which means that a well-written and well-maintained...
View ArticleGoogle: Government Surveillance Increasing
You can read Google’s official blog post summarizing the report, or go directly to the user data requests section of the full transparency report. You might also be interested in the government removal...
View ArticleOne Year of Not Provided Google Data
Make no mistake, it’s vastly different from what Google claimed it would be. Just ask anyone who studies their Google Analytics data. When a signed-in user performs a Google search, the search engine...
View ArticleImagine There`s No Google
Mike Moran raised that question recently over at Search Engine Guide. He acknowledged that we’ve had the World Wide Web for more than 15 years now, and search engines of one kind or another for most of...
View ArticleYahoo Acquires OnTheAir, Betting Big on Mobile
Let’s take a quick step back in time to late October of this year. That’s when Mayer made her first acquisition since arriving at Yahoo. The purchased company, named Stamped, produced a recommendations...
View ArticleHow To Use the New @SPYFU for Smart Competitor Analysis
The point of a competitor analysis is NOT to copy moves or strategies. Rather, it’s to FIND OUT what your rivals are good at to come up with better techniques. There are hundreds of tools out there for...
View ArticleGoogle Tells Spammers That Reconsideration Is Not An Option
Google has announced a new change to its webmaster policy – from now on, if your website gets a manual penalty, it may not get a second chance to dominate the listings. In a change that is designed to...
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