Google Disavow Links Tool Now Available
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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleSEO for the Social Media Minded: Webinar by Rand Fishkin and Nathan Latka
Once upon a time there were SEOs and Social Media Managers. SEOs lived on a solid planet called Data and lived by a code called Measurable Results. Social Media Managers lived in a cloud world called...
View ArticleTechnical SEO is getting less technical
Google's Data Highlighter makes technical SEO less technical as Google tries to give searchers less reason to click through to your site.The post Technical SEO is getting less technical appeared first...
View ArticleGoogle Plus Post Links Now No Followed by Google
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...
View ArticleIs Social Media Influence Building a Zero-Sum Game?
This past week I published what has become my most widely read and re-shared post ever, and in many ways I think my most important post ever: “Your Google Plus Network Is More Powerful Than You Know.”...
View ArticleLink Building Fundamentals: SMX West
Presented by Debra Mastaler, President, Alliance-Link (@debramastaler). A live blog of an SEO Boot Camp session at SMX West in San Jose, CA, March 11, 2013. Part One: Concept of Link Popularity There...
View ArticleMatt Cutts & Duane Forrester’s Excellent Adventure: The Search Police at SMX...
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...
View ArticleThe Real Value from Content Marketing
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,...
View ArticleMatt Cutts SMX Advanced 2013 Question and Answer Session
Here are my on-the-spot notes taken down as Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land interviewed Google Distinguished Engineer (and head of Google’s anti-web spam team) Matt Cutts with questions of his own...
View ArticleWriting for the Semantic Web and Semantic Search
Below is a recent interview I did talking about how we should be writing content for the semantic web. I was the guest of Michael Ehline of the Circle of Legal Trust, a “Confederation of Online...
View ArticlePowerful Personal Branding via Content, Social Networking, & SEO
Personal Brand Authority Is Key to Customer Connection Recently I was asked to give a workshop for entrepreneurs and startup business people at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City....
View ArticleGoogle Author Rank: On? Not Yet? Why I Don’t Care
Google Author Rank: The Sasquatch of SEO When it comes to the topic of Google Author Rank and whether it is a reality today, the True Believers are only slightly less fanatical than people convinced...
View ArticleNegative SEO and Link Removals: Interview with Virante’s Jacob Bohall
At Pubcon in Las Vegas last month, Search Engine Journal conducted a video interview with Jacob Bohall, Vice President for Marketing for Virante Inc, on the topics of negative seo and link removals for...
View ArticleThe Dismal Economics of Private Blog Networks
For all of you blackhats freaking out, please read my disclaimer below detailing how this is meant to show that PBNs do not make economic sense on a small scale. Only if economies of scale are reached...
View ArticleAn Insider’s View on Link Steroids
Two great passions in my life are baseball and SEO. Having played baseball throughout college and now leading link development at Angular, there are countless similarities when it comes to preparation...
View ArticleHiring an SEO and Avoiding Scams
In handling the majority of sales and customer service for Angular since 2007, I’ve had the joy of listening to thousands of stories about other SEO agencies, link building services, paid search...
View ArticleSEO Strategies for the Modern World
In an online world dominated by Pandas, Penguins, and other black-and-white animals, there is one savior that website owners who need a guide to traverse the ever-changing SEO landscape… this blog post...
View ArticleThe Perfect Reconsideration Request
Acquisition of a penalty can be a daunting task to address. You have been told by your SEO that the work they have done up to this point abides by the Google Quality Guidelines, and now that trust is...
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