Google Plus Post Links Now No Followed by Google

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According to Dan Petrovic of Dejan SEO, as of 5 January 2012 Google stopped following (for link juice purposes) links placed in posts on Google+. The primary link is still followed. This is the first link you put into a post on Google+ if you allow G+ to turn it into a rich snippet. Any other [...]

Advanced SEO

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Coverage of the Advanced SEO session on Nov 8, 2012 at Internet Summit featuring Melanie Phung from PBS, Mike King from iAcquire and Duane Forrester from Bing.

Google Disavow Links Tool Now Available

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Big announcement moments ago by +Matt Cutts at #Pubcon Las Vegas : Google is today introducing a backlink disavowal tool in Webmaster Tools to allow sites hit by manual ranking penalties to disavow bad backlinks they have been unable to remove. Matt Shared some tips and cautions for the tool: Be careful, Don’t use unless you are sure you neeed to. Google [...]

The Best Search Engines Today Aren't Search Engines

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I was reading social media news posts in an iPad app I’ve used every day for the past year, when it suddenly struck me. What I was doing at that moment just two years ago I would have been doing with a search engine. The app is Zite. It spiders out through my social networks [...]

The Myth of the Relevant Link

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It is a growing conception of the SEO world that getting links from highly relevant pages is no longer just valuable, but necessary in order to rank. I am by no means the only SEO to doubt the veracity of these claims (here is Michael Martinez and Julie Joyce on the issue in 2007), but despite their [...]

Google Webmaster Tools Updates its SEO Report Ranking

Google Announces an Update to the way it calculates average ranking in webmaster tools reports

Google announced, via its Webmaster Central Blog, that it was making an update to the “Top Search Queries” data.  Beginning today, Google Webmaster Tools Top Search Query report will take the average of a site’s top URL rankings for a query versus an average of all results for a site’s URLs on a given query. [...]

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 [...]

Presentation: Transportation Marketing & Sales Association

I had the pleasure of being invited (again!) to a Transportation Marketing and Sales Association event.     I met some wonderful people, and hopefully imparted some wisdom regarding the importance of search engine marketing, popular search engine marketing strategies, and some of the expectations you should have for your SEM provider. I’ve embedded a [...]

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 [...]

Understanding the Google +1 Button and AdWords

As you may have noticed by now, if you are logged in to Google while searching using Google, +1 icons now appear not only by every organic search result, but also next to each paid search ad. What does a click on +1 next to one of your ads do? In brief: +1 is associated [...]