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or Leaving Google+ In Order to Enhance Google+ In the last week, diehard Google fans discovered that a new commenting feature added to the Blogger platform had a stunning loophole: the feature could be applied to other platforms. Whether an unsecure API call was left there intentionally by Google for us to find is up [...]
Content marketing is all the hype these days and understandably so. A well thought-out and researched, content marketing strategy is an effective way to target and reach new audiences, build brands, and increase online visibility and traffic. Like other online marketing initiatives, this approach can be as effective or as non-effective as the time we [...]
A live blog of the presentations of three incredible content marketing ninjas at the Raleigh SEO Meetup, 26 March 2013. Casie Gillette @casieg KoMarketing Associates Amy Lewis @commsninja Cisco Marty Smith @scenttrail AtlanticBT Casie Gillette: Content is for Search, Branding & Authorship Needed to find ways to help clients take advantage of universal search as [...]
Virante’s Mark Traphagen was the guest of +Max Minzer for his Max Impact Hangout On Air show, discussing the topic: “Author Rank: Facts and Fiction.” Mark shared his views on the distinction between Authorship and Author Rank, whether or not Author Rank is a major ranking factor for search yet, and how content creators and brands should [...]
Ari Nahmani live diagnosed the link profiles of a number of sites during this session at SMX West 2013, along with Search Engine Land’s Elisabeth Osmeloski and Kaila Strong. If you are distributing an embedded widget or free plugin, make the anchor text all brand name on the link back. Rotating the anchor text might work [...]
The Veg-O-Matic Approach to Smart SEO Writing – Heather Lloyd Heather Lloyd-Martin is a 20-year marketing veteran and recognized author. She is President and CEO of SuccessWorks, a marketing firm providing search engine optimized copywriting Once upon a time it was all about your website. The pressure now to constantly create and share content is [...]
What is Google Authorship? What is Author Rank? Why should you use Authorship? From SMX West, 12 March 2013. Panelists: Mike Arnesen, SwellPath (@mike_arnesen) AJ Kohn, Blind Five Year Old (@ajkohn) (There was another panelist, but I decided to just blog those directly talking about Google Authorship)
At SMX West today we were invited to walk a mile in Google’s shoes, as Matt Cutts with Patrick Thomas of the Search Quality Team led us through the kinds of dilemmas a search engine faces regularly in deciding when, and when not, to censor results. Should Google censor content? 3 people in the audience raised their [...]
Google’s Matt Cutts and Bing’s Duane Forrester at SMX West, March 11 2013 Matt Cutts: Examples of Totally Bogus Spam Matt started off by showing some examples of glaringly obvious spam sites. He asked us not to blog about them to protect privacy. But he let us know that Google’s new “How Search Works” site [...]
A live blog of the Google Dance session at SMX West, San Jose CA, March 11, 2013 Moderator: Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land (@dannysullivan) Speakers: Rhea Drysdale, Outspoken Media Inc. (@Rhea) Mitul Gandhi, seoClarity (@seoclarity) Marcus Tober, Searchmetrics Inc. (@linkvendor) Background: Post last year by Danny Sullivan: The Google Dance Is Back Rhea Drysdale Historical [...]
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