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Recently, the largest Latin America travel website, Decolar.com (also known as Despegar) has just been from Google results due to Webmaster Guidelines violation, resulting in a big buzz in the Brazilian SEO community. The first tweet about the case was from Flavio Raimundo, pointing to the site:decolar.com Google Results page:
This week we are thrilled to have a special guest joining us for Whiteboard Friday: Duane Forrester, a top-of-the-line SEO who went over to the other side of the fence and now works at Bing's Webmaster Project as the Senior Project Manager. Duane discusses Webmaster Tools, metrics, and some important and exciting news about sitemap quality thresholds...
Today we're taking a different angle than we normally do on the blog. As you know, recently New Zealand and specifically Christchurch was seriously affected by an earthquake on February 22nd. After Rand sent out an email last week for those chosen to participate in the 2011 Ranking Factor. our friend Kalena Jordan from Search Engine College resp...
By now, everyone in the SEO world is aware of the algorithmic update Google launched last Wednesday, February 23rd. Several posts on the topic are worth reading, including Danny Sullivan's take, Aaron Wall's assesment...
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For today’s blog post, I’m going to write about my favourite topic of all, site architecture for SEO. This write up is based on my recent presentation at SES London 2011, and rather than just posting the slide deck I thought it might be fun ...
Thoughts, Graphics and Formulas to Improve Decision-making The recent whiteboard Friday session from SEOmoz on International SEO: Where to Host and How to Target was a welcomed overview of how SEOmoz see this landscape. Together with Dan Taylors ...
One of the people I admire and respect most in the technology, startup world is Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson. A little more than a year ago, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Fred in his New York offices, just as we were ending our failed fund raising attempt. The writer...
In SEO, nothing is quite as frustrating as pouring time and money into your chosen keyword and finally breaking into the Top 10, only find that you still have no visitors.
Your online identity is going further, faster and with more impact than ever before, yet many of us miss out on the seemingly obvious SEO power of our personal and company biographies. ...
When Google made their “page speed is now a ranking factor” announcement, it wasn’t a significant new ranking factor but rather that it is significant because it means Google wants to use usability metrics to help rank pages. Your site speed should be a priority as slow sites decrease customer satisfaction and ...
Disclaimer: This post has absolutely nothing to do with SEO or even online marketing. You've been warned. Please keep reading to see the awesomeness that is your new profile. *happy dance* :) Before I jump into the new profiles and what's so great about them. Let's take a look back, a look at the profiles of yesteryear. Back in the day when the profile ...
Everyone who reads this problably looks at conversion rate on a daily basis, but how deep do you look? Do you segment traffic, view by advertising campaign, etc? I decided to dig really deep and sort conversions by browsers. The data was collected from over 20 websites that donated their stats for this inforgraphic. Their traffic ranged from millions of unique visitors all the way down to sites...
Let me tell you a tale of an unexpected case study on the value of a tweet on a page's ranking and traffic. This tale will mostly be told using graphics, as the images tell the story better than I can. Let's begin... Last Monday while I was checking the morning tweets, I noticed a ton of tweets about our Beg...
Every 3-4 years, there's a big shift or addition to the key metrics Google (and, to a lesser extent MSN/Bing and Yahoo!) uses to order competitive search results. 1996-1999: On-page keyword usage + meta data 1999 - 2002: PageRank + On-page 2002 - 2005: Anchor text + Domain name + PageRank + On-Page 2005 - 200...