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Years ago, before I was constantly on the lookout for changes that might affect Internet marketing and had yet to develop my obsession with Google, I used to create content that was designed for people. Yes, you read that right...I used to write with the human being in mind not the search engines. The focus as a writer was to create content that was ...
Discover what is the State of SEO in 2012 accordingly to some of the most renown SEOs and Web Marketers. Google Updates, Knowledge Graph, Author Rank, Schema.org, Google+ and the Plus-ification of G. And then Bing and its teasing to the SEO community or the definitive explosion of Mobile Search. So much as changed in one year. But one thing stays firm: MozCon is coming.
Congratulations to our community speakers at MozCon 2012.
I want to keep this post as short and actionable as possible; do you have any tools that do just one thing really well? You know the kind I mean, those plugins and hack projects that you may only use once a year but when you do use them, you really appreciate them. I’ve gathered a bunch of these (some I use everyday) and I want to share them with the community. Could I ask a...
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It's time for another Mozscape index update. This one comes with some good news, and potentially some bad news, too. As you're likely aware, the previous two indices, while huge in size (150B+ URLs each) suffered from a lack of freshness due to the additional processing time required to calculate our link graph and metrics over such phenomenally big numbers of links & pages. Toda...
A comprehensive Excel spreadsheet template that can be easily duplicated and handed off to an outsourcer for webmaster outreach to get links removed.
In this week's Whiteboard Firday, we are going to be discussing how you can use slide decks for web marketing. I've been leveraging the power of slide decks for quite some time now and would like to share a little bit about what I have learned.
This might sound a little crazy, but the best SEO you can do right now is no SEO. Yes, follow the guidelines previously mentioned. I would consider this search engine compliance more than I would search engine optimization. But don't go around the Internet looking for any and every opportunity to do something that is going to increase your search engine rankings.
I'll start with a simple question: have you ever thought that linking to your Twitter profile can be very difficult? Probably your answer is "not really!", and in this case maybe you could find what I'm going to show you useful.
When we get into the truth of how much time and effort goes into the actual work of raising a client's web visibility--that it’s an ongoing process that will require them to generate content and build relationships--we often see some reluctance. To combat that reluctance, we’ve put a lot of thought into how we conduct and explain our particular version of content marketing.
A deal can be many different things, depending on your business -- really, I'm just using it as a placeholder. Whether it be a new client, a big partnership, a fresh distribution, a juicy link, even an acquisition, they're all in the same ballpark. From experiencing it first hand in my work to being on the receiving end of some really bad attempts, here's 10 reasons why you'll blow that big deal.
Sifting through server logs has made me infinitely better at my job as an SEO. If you're already using them as part of your analysis, congrats - if not, I encourage you to read this post. In this post we're going to: Briefly introduce a server log hit Understand common issues with Googlebot's crawl Use a server log to...
But the question keeps coming up: can Google execute JavaScript and AJAX? Can they really?
In this week's Whiteboard Friday, I am going to be walking through how to get started guest blogging. There are plenty of articles all over the web that go into the finer details of guest blogging, but let's step back for a second and really talk about how to get started. From getting into the guest blogging mindset to building up your list of guest blogging opportunities,...