Using the nTopic Writer to Increase Topical Relevancy

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Virante released nTopic about a month ago. nTopic allows you to analyze your content for topical relevancy and recommends words you should add to improve relevancy. I won’t waste your time here going over why improving topical relevancy is important, but if you are interested, you can read our experimental study results here. Below, I [...]

An Introduction to Content Relevancy, nTopic and SEO

Today Virante, Inc. launched nTopic, a content relevancy scoring API for Search Engine Optimization. Because there is nothing quite like it available in the world of SEO, we thought it would be appropriate to spend a little bit of time explaining what nTopic is and does. What is Content Relevancy Scoring? Most on-page optimization techniques, [...]

Google Algorithm Weather Report: Announcing MozCast

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My notes from the presentation “A Secret Algo Project Launch” at MozCon 2012 by Dr. Peter J. Meyers, Rogue Scientist for SEOmoz (@dr_pete). Be sure to read until the end for an amazing announcement from SEOmoz! Background: http://mz.cm/algo-history SEOmoz history of Google algo changes. We know so much about Google’s algorithm…but tons more we don’t know. “As bad as [...]

Calculating the Potential Value of an Exact Match Domain

We recommend that all of our clients adopt a multi-site strategy for rankings, as it increases the number of sites they can have ranking for any particular target keyword phrase. This multi-site strategy also helps mitigate some of the risks of search engine optimization. For competitive keywords, finding such domains can be a difficult task. However for long-tail terms [...]

Low-Risk, High-Reward Link Development

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Yesterday Virante’s CTO Russ Jones (Twitter: @rjonesx) spoke at PubCon in Las Vegas on the topic “Low Risk, High Reward Link Development.” Virante Director of Customer Relations Jacob Bobhall (Twitter: @jakebohall) live tweeted the talk. The following is an aggregation of his tweets (with hashtags & a few other references removed): SEO Misconception: paid links are [...]

Google Page Speed Tool Helps Optimize Your Site's Load Speed

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Google has handed a graduation diploma from Google Labs to its Page Speed Online tool, which is now “in the wild” as they say. Find it at https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/. It’s home page couldn’t be more simple: just enter your site’s URL and click “Analyze.”   Once inside, Google Page Speed Online offers a number of suggestions for [...]

How to Report Scraper Pages to Google

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It’s one of the more frustrating experiences for any original content producer. You work hard to craft an interesting, well-researched, readable blog post or article. A day or two later you type the posts primary keywords into Google to see how your content is ranking. And there is your sweat-and-blood work published word-for-word on someone [...]

Website Launch Flowchart

This flowchart is a detailed guide that covers optimized website design, development and multichannel marketing integration. Web design doesn’t exist in a vacuum nor does marketing. The most optimized, easiest functioning and best performing sites are those that find a balance between design, content, business tool complexity and marketing integration. Download this free chart.