Week Of November 20th 2011: Thanksgiving Edition of Top Search News
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. ― John Lennon Yahoo Sunsets Site Explorer In this SEOmoz post Michael King, SEO Manager for Publicis Modem in Philidephia and NYC, talks about the sad news of Yahoo turning off Site Expolorer. It was ...
Week Of November 13th 2011: Supersized Second Installment of Top Search News
Using Social Media to Build Site Authority For a while now SEO's have been looking to social networking sites as an outlet for amplifying the effects of an SEO campaign. Social Media sites have shown to help link building efforts, increase indexation rates and logged-in rankings, but could they also help ...
Week of November 13th 2011: Top News Stories in Search Marketing
Duplicate Content in a Panda World Dr Pete brings us a lengthy post about how duplicate content impacts websites in the new world where Panda values rule SEO content Creation. If you have ever had questions about duplicate content, this all inclusive article will probably answer just about any question ...
Week of November 6th 2011: Top News Stories in Search Marketing
Scalable Link Building Using Social Media Video This week SEOmoz enlisted the help of Mike King to lead another amazing Whiteboard Friday. As marketers and SEOs we all have asked ourselves at one time or another how we can use Social Media to build links without coming across as spammy, or ...
#pubcon Best Quotes and Things Overheard at Pubcon 2011 Las Vegas
Search engines despise 3rd-party aggregators unless it's themselves -@gregboser I still can't believe someone at #pubcon asked me the best way to do doorway pages. Amit's take: "Don't do that." :) - @mattcutts You don't want to go where search engines are, you want to go where search engines will be - ...
Week of October 30th 2011: Top News Stories in Search Marketing
Why Does Great Content Fail? Dr Pete of User Effect in Chicago, IL examines some of they primary reasons that great content fails. He touches on points like: What Does “Great” Mean? Great Content Has Credibility Great Content Takes Real Effort Great Content Is Actionable Great Content Begs to Be Shared People want to bank everything ...
Updated: #GoogleUpdate Google’s 2011 Algorithm Update “Freshness” Information
Today Google announced they are rolling out a search algorithm change that helps make the search results "fresher". It seems as though the QDF variables have been turned up to make sure the most recent information about many top of mind topics are being shown. The current Google Algorithm update ...
Week of October 23rd 2011: Top News Stories in Search Marketing
Do Exact Match Domain Names Help With Ranking For Their Keyword? Bill Slawski of SEO by the Sea talks about a patent that he has found from Google that talks about detecting commercial intent for exact match domain names. In response to the question, "as a business should you choose a domain ...
Week Of October 14th 2011: Top News Stories In Search Marketing
7 Technical SEO Wins for Web Developers 7 Technical SEO Wins for Web Developers Many SEO's will agree that good On-site SEO begins with a website's developers. If web developers are not aligned with your SEO goals you will most likely run into technical issues down the road. It is important ...
Week of October 9th 2011: Top News Stories in Search Marketing
Which Type of Link Anchor Text is the Most Effective? James Agate, Founder & Director of Search Skyrocket SEO, ran a basic experiment to determine if exact match, partial match, or if anchor text mattered at all in regards to ranking for a specific keyword. He came to the high level ...
Week of October 2nd 2011: Top News Stories in Search Marketing
Below you will find top news stories in search marketing from around the web for the week of October 2nd 2011. Please add your own in the comments if you have any. Former Google Search Reps Start Search Quality Alliance Former Google Search Reps Start Search Quality Alliance Search quality has always ...
Week of September 25th 2011: Top News Stories in Search Marketing
Below you will find top news stories in search marketing from around the web for the week of September 25th 2011. Please add your own in the comments if you have any. Employing Microformats & Structured Data For Enhanced Search Engine Visibility Employing Microformats & Structured Data For Enhanced Search Engine ...
Week of September 18th 2011: Top News Stories in Search Marketing
Below you will find top news stories in search marketing from around the web for the week of September 18th 2011. Please add your own in the comments if you have any. An SEO Checklist for New Sites – Whiteboard Friday An SEO Checklist for New Sites – Whiteboard Friday Are ...
Week of September 11th 2011: Top News Stories in Search Marketing
Google Provides new options for Paginated content Google Provides new options for Paginated content Google unveiled a new change to the SERPs at SMX East yesterday, announcing a new rel attribute “rel=next” and “rel=prev”. Currently Google is very good at identifying pages, which are part of a series and also ...
Week Of September 4th 2011: Top News Stories In Search Marketing
Top Search Marketing News Stories From The Week Of September 4, 2011 Below you will find some of the top SEO, Business, and Marketing news from this past week. It includes Google, Bing, Zagat, Google Panda Update, and even Tactics for Defending the SERPs. If there are other stories that we ...
Top Online Marketing Articles By Visits For August, 2011
In case you missed some of these articles, Linchpin SEO has put together the top 10 online marketing articles, tips and research for August by traffic and page views. These research articles were published both in August and dates prior, but got the most visits and views from our SEO ...
Top 10 Highest Costing Paid Search Keywords
Think SEO is to expensive for your business, and don't want to pay a few thousand dollars for solid rankings, your alternative is to pay upwards of $55 dollars per click to compete for these keywords in Google. The top 10 keyword categories that demanded the highest costs per ...
Social Media Facts, Stats, and Market Penetration 2010 to 2011
Where Social Networks Dominate With social media usage skyrocketing it's no longer just a place to hang out and use on a personal level. If you would like some help grabbing some of these stats below for your business, participating in the communities, or building a community of your own, give ...
Best SEO, Technology, Social Media Websites, and Blogs
SEOmoz SEOmoz develops SEO software, provides a robust link intelligence API, and hosts the web's most vibrant SEO community. They are based in Seattle, but are often found traveling the globe to participate in marketing events and meetups. website SEO Roundtable The purpose behind the Search Engine Roundtable is to report on ...
Google Turns Up Local, Unique Content, SEOmoz Hiring
Google Dials Up Localization Big Time by Aaron Wall at SEOBook SEOBook Article Google Implies Local Demand Based on User Location and it appears that Google has just dialed up search result localization dramatically. How much longer will it be before Google is mostly local and the national and general ...
Suite101 (www.suite101.com) Review
Canada-based Suite101.com does not publish the most content of all of the online writing sites, but the website still publishes nearly 500 original articles every day. Unlike many websites that offer writers compensation via options, Suite101.com compensates its writers via revenue-share only. This means that writers at Suite101 ...
AOL Seed (www.seed.com) Review
Seed.com is a relative newcomer to the online content distribution industry, and is part of the AOL network. The launch of its own content production makes sense for AOL, which has many of its own sites that require a constant rotation of fresh, new articles and reports. Like ...
Demand Studios (www.demandstudios.com) Review
Demand Studios is the online publishing house owned by online content conglomerate Demand Media. Demand Studios is responsible for the content produced on a variety of well known websites, including eHow.com, Livestrong.com, GardenGuides.com, Answerbag.com, among others. The articles seen on these sites are created by a wealth of freelance ...
Associated Content (www.associatedcontent.com) Review
Associated Content started out as a small website that encouraged anyone to sign up to start publishing their own articles on the web. After five years, and growing to more than two million pieces of content online, Associated Content was purchased by Yahoo! in 2010. Through the acquisition, ...
Facts and Benefits of Facebook’s New Profile Page
Overview of the New Profile Facebook, which is one of the most popular social networking sites, recently introduced a new profile to make the site easier for you to tell stories and learn about friends. Introduction to The New Profile The introduction to the new Facebook profile gives you a quick overview of ...
The History of Character Animation
The art of character animation is one that takes lots of dedication, practice, and training. Character animation has evolved over the last 100 years, from Gertie the Dinosaur, hand drawn by Winsor McCay in 1914, to today's highly technical 3D computer graphic films based on CGI. These films ...
Best Websites For Business Profiles and Sales Leads
If you are a business owner, sales person, or entrepreneur you know the pain of finding updated and trusted information about businesses online. You know the challenge of finding the decision maker when trying to drum up sales leads or to learn about the CEO or marketing person you are ...
Google’s Amit Singhal takes a play from John Lennon’s Playbook
There is no hiding the truth I am a huge John Lennon fan for many reasons. So when I came across this post on Search Engine Round Table I thought it was not only an interesting post but triggered something in my memory of another such event. Whether or ...
Free Websites For Elementary and High School Teachers
Having been immersed (through stories from teachers in our families) in the constant struggle that educational facilities face when it comes to budgets and resources we feel we can offer something to help. Linchpin SEO wants to give back and help the educational community by offering free websites including design ...
