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GSA Search Engine Ranker was heavily featured in my tiered link building series and has had a bunch of awesome new features added across the past year. How To Increase Organic Search Traffic by 4.6% in 32 Minutes. Have you noticed that direct traffic year over year is through the roof?
Maybe you scratched your head, wrinkled your brow and chalked it up to better brand recognition. In reality, no such thing happened. What is happening is search traffic from iOS is being attributed to direct traffic instead. Your organic search numbers are being mugged. [Update] Frank Zimper notes that this problem also exists for those running Android 4.0 and higher. How Google Makes Liars Out of the Good Guys in SEO. Reality: Nope.
Connecting with people on social can get you links in many ways but if you did that well and didn't get anchor text, you'd probably fail. Reality: Not yet. But I sure hope it comes. OK Big G - We are all playing by your rules, building community, working our tails off on social, and getting our butts kicked, why are you recommending I tell clients to do those things if they aren't helping us? It's sad to think that if I wanted to rank well for keywords in my industry, writing this post, getting comments on it, and engaging in the community by answering questions counts LESS to help us rank well for targeted competitive keywords than me getting 20 anchor text links on a tag page? Local SEO Best Practices for Ranking in Google Places. Introduction Another year, another increase in the complexity of Local search results at Google.
Last year’s survey was released almost simultaneously with the announcement of Google+ Local (which, according to the experts, has affected rankings surprisingly little), and this year’s edition follows close on the heels of widespread reports of Carousel results and the release of the new Google Maps. Two constants over the course of the past year, however, have been the continued appearance of Localized Organic results and the ever-increasing percentage of searches coming from mobile devices. Combine all those data points together, and it becomes very clear that there’s no longer a single “Local algorithm” at Google anymore—if, indeed, there ever was one. 30 SEO Bookmarklets to Save You Time. We all work hard at the SEO process - analyzing sites, gathering data, researching potential problems and identifying the solutions.
Today's post is on how to work smarter and faster using bookmarklets for SEO. No matter your browser, these plug-and-play links will let you get your job done faster and easier, and look like a pro in front of bosses and clients. The list isn't completely comprehensive, but it covers 95%+ of the SEO data points I retrieve on a monthly basis and a few extras I don't personally use that may be valuable to others.
Link Building. On-Page SEO. Most Epic SEO Content of 2011. 2011 has been a pretty incredible year and as this is my last planned blog post until January, I figured it would be a great time to curate some of the best posts I’ve read all year on SEO, content marketing, social media, conversion and more.
SEO Methodology For Yearly Events – Revisited. How to Optimize 7 Popular Social Media Profiles for SEO. If you want to strengthen your personal or business brand’s visibility, then one of the top things you will want is to have strong social media profiles that rank in the top results for your name along with your website and blog.
Having a strong online reputation that is comprised of nothing but content that highlights the best about your personal or business brand will allow you to keep undesirable results at bay, such as bad online reviews or mentions. You’ve probably read lots of posts talking about how to properly optimize your social media profiles for search, and they’ve probably all sounded a little like this. Be active – Yes, this is true. Just like Google loves regularly updated blogs and websites, they equally love regularly updated social profiles. Optimize photo filenames – This only works on some networks, which I will mention below.
7 Lessons Learned Running an SEO Agency. My first real company was an SEO agency.
I was only 17 years old when I started it and I had no clue what I was doing. The only thing I knew was there was a business to be made from SEO because companies spent millions of dollars on pay-per-click advertising. Nine Ways to be a Competitive SEO. This post has been inspired and adapted from one of my favourite non-SEO bloggers, James Altucher.
He recently wrote: 9 Ways to break all the rules. As an SEO, regardless to the fact we proscribe or prescribe the definition, our jobs are to get our content high up enough in SERPs to attract searchers into our sites. Simply put, it’s the art of making something findable.