Search Engine Watch
by PJ Fusco, January 26, 2012 Comments In its simplest form, search engine optimization (SEO) used to be about three things - making your content crawlable, linkable, and usable. Gaining greater visibility on search engine results pages was relatively ...
Simple SEO Facts: Images & Link Building Value
Everything PR
SEO is a subject even the most dilligent publishers or communicators sometimes shy away from. Even though experts in SEO and SEM seem to lurk at every corner of the web, it seems a bit funny that more web authorities do not take advantage of the ...
Five Search Engine Ranking Factors
Promotion World (press release)
Many of these are kept secret for commercial reasons but there are also many that search engineoptimisation companies have worked out through extensive testing. Here are some of the most important ones. Page level link metrics are among the most ...
How To Get Hired At A Top SEO Agency Part 2: What most applicants are lacking
Search Engine Journal
Next in our series of finding what top SEO agencies are looking for when hiring, we ask our panel of experts “What skills are most people you interview lacking?” Here is what they had to say. Technical programming/scripting experience.
Search Engine Journal
Google Recalculates Average Search Position Metric
Search Engine Watch
... In an attempt to provide more accuracy on where your site ranks for search queries, Google is changing the way it calculates average position in the Google Webmaster Tools Top Search Queries and Google Analytics Search Engine Optimization reports.
Internet search engine gets lost - Google names cooking school an animal sanctuary
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
By Helen Barnett » A HOTELIER is worried she is losing trade after an internet search enginewrongly labelled her business an animal sanctuary. Mistley Kitchen and neighbouring Mistley Thorn, both on High Street, Mistley, have been confused with ...
Are You Keeping Secrets From The Search Engines?
Search Engine Land
They post content that appears differently for human readers than it does for search engine crawlers. And as a result, their sites receive inferior treatment from those search engines in the indexes. No, I'm not talking about page spam (that's a topic ...
Search Engine Land
How Google 'removes' content from its search engine
BBC News
Google's legal director Daphne Keller has explained how the firm is able to stop people from discovering contentious material using its search engine. She was asked to explain the process during her appearance at the Leveson Inquiry.
BBC News
Are The Top Ten Websites In Cyprus SEO Friendly?
Multilingual Search
The SEO factors used for comparison are the following: Title: The text that appears in the browser. Titles should be relevant and use primary keywords. Meta Description: While not important to search engine rankings, they are extremely important ...
Multilingual Search
Optimizing for Search Engines: By Language or By Country?
Search Engine Journal
While getting the words right is key to international communication, the SEO strategies at your disposal will not vary widely from one language to another. Bear in mind, though, that when you switch language you also gain the attention of those search ...
Why Blogs Need SEO
QueryClick (blog)
Once I'd delved deeper into the world of SEO and had attended my vital SEO 101 crash course, however, I discovered a few tricks of the trade that let the bloggers themselves do all the work and which also helps them achieve better results for their ...
QueryClick (blog)
Yandex Adds Face Recognition Technology
Search Engine Watch
Yandex is the default search engine on Russian Windows mobile phones. Yandex has search appliances for maps, news, blogs, video, pictures and stock market features. With Yandex Labs in Palo Alto, California, do you think 2012 is the year Yandex makes ...
What The Holidays Tell Search Marketers
Search Engine Land
The search engine-like spikes in Facebook ad revenue and spend during the holidays suggests that as you evaluate your Facebook strategy for 2012 you should consider devoting budget and resources to performance marketing endeavors on Facebook.
Search Engine Land
DuckDuckGo Sets New Traffic Record, But Stats Show How Dominant Google, Others Are
Search Engine Land
DuckDuckGo, the upstart search engine that's challenged its bigger competitors on privacy issues, has had a couple straight days of record-setting traffic. But the numbers show just how much the major search engines dominate the search space.
3 Keys To Online Retail In 2012: Doing More With Less
Search Engine Land
We are only a month into 2012, but 2011 already seems like a distant memory. Christmas was over a month ago and Black Friday was approximately 6 months ago by my calculations. But as we reminisce on the year that was 2011, hopefully you were pleasantly ...
Search Engine Land
5 Basic SEO Troubleshooting Tips for Content Marketers
By Lee Odden
Troubleshoot SEO Basics. This post is a preview of a new downloadable guide I will be offering for those who pre-order Optimize by March 13, 2012. The full guide will have screenshots, examples and more “SEO Deep Dive” advice. If you want the full, illustrated Content Marketing .... If the search engine favors video content, PDF files and news sources, then it might mean an adjustment in your content marketing media mix for that phrase. SEO Drill Down: More data about the SERP ...
Online Marketing Blog
The Ultimate Guide to Google+ SEO - SocialTimes.com
By Neil Vidyarthi
The Ultimate Guide to Google+ SEO. ... AJ Kohn over at Blind Five Year Old has put together what must be the most rigorous, complete Google+ SEO guide around, and it's going viral like gangbusters. It looks at the various angles of how Google+ is impacting search, and then follows it with a best practices section which explains how to leverage this new system to ensure your posts are properly search engine optimized. I'm warning you, the thing is a long read, but it may be ...
SocialTimes.com
SEO Short Cheat Sheets | SiteProNews: Webmaster News ...
By Max OnFire
Note: One sure way confirm that keywords you're targeting your SEO efforts will drive right type traffic pay get them their first. If they don't buy then target different ... Tags: search engine optimization,seo, seo cheat sheets, seo rankings, seo tips ...
SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources
Laying Out An SEO and Traffic Generation Strategy
Laying Out An SEO and Traffic Generation Strategy. ... Loading SEO Chat Topics. ... all-encompassing strategy for traffic generation or search engine rankings.
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Laying Out An SEO and Traffic Generation Strategy. ... Loading SEO Chat Topics. ... all-encompassing strategy for traffic generation or search engine rankings.
www.seochat.com/.../Laying-Out-An-SEO-and-Traffic-Genera...
How User Personas Can Improve Your SEO Strategy
User personas are fictional characters which are typically used in the user- centred design process to represent the different user types of a website. I'm going to ...
blog.kissmetrics.com/user-personas-for-seo/
Google Analytics Blog: Update to Search Engine Optimization reports
Update to Search Engine Optimization reports. Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | 2 10 PM. Labels: Features. In October, we made Google Webmaster Tools ...
analytics.blogspot.com/.../update-to-search-engine-optimizatio...
This Two-Year-Old Startup Is Already Generating $80 Million Off… Coupons?
Business Insider
CC: Right now, we get traffic primarily from natural search, search engine optimization, email and paid search like Google and Yahoo advertising. We're testing all the traditional aspects of advertising — TV, radio, print, you name it.
Business Insider
8 Mobile Trends For Small Businesses To Watch In 2012
Huffington Post
It's mission-critical for your company to understand the basics of local, mobile search optimizationand put these skills to work. By ignoring mobile search, you're willingly sacrificing business to the competitors. And in this hyper-competitive ...
How to modernize your news releases
ReporterNews.com
Use keywords to make it easier for people to find your release when using search engines such as Google and Bing. This is what is meant by search engine optimization, or SEO. According to Hubspot, more people now turn to search engines than to the ...
Five Tips for Online Public Relations Success [Slide Show]
MarketingProfs.com (subscription)
One key tactic for maximizing your online exposure is to optimize the content within your release for search engines (search engine optimization, or SEO). The process is fairly simple: Type in three or four words or phrases that relate to your drafted ...
MarketingProfs.com (subscription)
Small Business Ideas for 2012: Why not go Global?
International Business Times
Once a small business gains traction in a certain foreign market, it can then start thinking about registering a local Web site domain name, building a local-language Web site, looking into local search engine optimization (SEO) and buying up local...
3 Search engine optimization Myths Debunked and state of the ...
By Blogger
3 Search engine optimization Myths Debunked and state of the union. Posted By Blogger ~ 25th January ... Search engines are under a lot of pressure to keep spam under control, which is the main reason that their rules and formulas change so often. This has created many misconceptions aboutsearch engines, from how page rank is determined to indexing. You need access to the real story and know how to recognize myths if you want to profit from SEO. It's important to be able to ...
Net Worm
Simple Strategies for Search Engine Optimisation Strategies ...
By Arthur
They then develop the related background and information to optimize your internet site to enable thesearch engine lions to read through and catalog your site more effectively. An experience corporation putting into action SEO will 1st ...
5 Habits Small Businesses Should Adopt in 2012
Small Business Trends
If you know that getting your site showing on Google will make a much more accelerated impact than making cold calls – learn some basics on SEO (search engine optimization). Take a course, ask people, see what your competition is doing.
