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Mike Glover sur Twitter : "The Advanced Guide to YouTube SEO by @albertcostill via @sejournal #SEO... The Advanced Guide to YouTube SEO. There’s no doubt that in the world of online video, YouTube is an unstoppable juggernaut.

The Advanced Guide to YouTube SEO

More than 1 billion users watch hundreds of millions of hours of video each and every day, and the monthly viewing statistics are up 50% year over year. Half of these views are now on mobile devices with revenue up 100% yearly. Ervin Juresa sur Twitter : "Understanding and Applying Moz's Spam Score Metric @randfish @Kancelar #search #SEO.

Understanding and Applying Moz's Spam Score Metric. This week, Moz released a new feature that we call Spam Score, which helps you analyze your link profile and weed out the spam (check out the blog post for more info).

Understanding and Applying Moz's Spam Score Metric

There have been some fantastic conversations about how it works and how it should (and shouldn't) be used, and we wanted to clarify a few things to help you all make the best use of the tool. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand offers more detail on how the score is calculated, just what those spam flags are, and how we hope you'll benefit from using it. For reference, here's a still of this week's whiteboard. Howdy Moz fans, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. Rich Answers in Search - My Presentation at SMX West. Women in Tech: Meet Patricia Skinner.

Welcome back to our Women in Tech.

Women in Tech: Meet Patricia Skinner

This series will introduce global women in Technology. From Canada to Jordan, they live around the globe. In today’s post on Women in Tech, we meet Patricia Skinner. She’s an amazing woman, who I’ve had the pleasure of knowing for a few years. I’ve asked to work with with her on a number of global middle eastern projects – unfortunately the clients either never committed, or the timing wasn’t right. 1.

Be true to yourself. Bill and Ammon's Bogus Hangout – Google+ NETworkAve.com sur Twitter : ""Only YOU can stop you" - Gitomer #SEO #SEM #Marketing #B2B #B2C #Blog #sales #tools #success... Google's Paid Link Patent. There are things that we just don’t know about search engines.

Google's Paid Link Patent

Things that aren’t shared with us in an official blog post, or search engine representative speaker’s conference comment, or through a publicly published white paper. Often we do learn some aspects of how search engines work through patents, but the timing of those is controlled more by the US Patent and Trademark Office than by one of the search engines. For example, back in 2003 Google was filing some of their first patents that identified changes to how their ranking algorithms worked, and among those was one with a name similar to the original Stanford PageRank patents filed by Lawrence Page. It has some hints about PageRank and Google’s link analysis that we haven’t officially seen before.

The similarly named patent is: Ranking nodes in a linked database based on node independence Invented by Paul Haahr, Martin Kaszkiel, Amit Singhal Assigned to Google Inc. Abstract This is the fourth version of the patent. Keyword Difficulty Tool is Live! We are happy to announce the launch of the Keyword Difficulty Tool.

Keyword Difficulty Tool is Live!

It is designed to estimate how difficult it would be to seize your competitors’ positions in organic search within the Google or Bing top 20 with a particular keyword. What do we take into consideration to calculate keyword difficulty? We take the list of domains that are ranking in Google or Bing top 20 organic search results for the given keyword. Based on each website’s SEMrush Rank, we calculate their domain strength, and define the average number range, from 1 to 100%.

The higher the percentage, the more effort you’ll need to outrank your competition for targeted keywords. How is the Keyword Difficulty Tool useful for you? Type one or more keywords into the Keyword Difficulty box (1). Sets Sights on Jordan. Thu 13th March, 2014 Sekari Sets Sights on Jordan We now hunt, pursue and search in Amman.

Sets Sights on Jordan

Sekari has stamped its SEO seal of approval on the Jordanian market and set up offices in the ever-expanding city of Amman. "The Jordan office is our content studio where we are going to grow our content development and outreach team. ISpeakSEO : Sick this weekend. Flu with... SEO Discussions That Need to Die. Bloggers Alert: The New Back Linking Scam To Avoid. A Complete Guide for Conducting a Link Audit. Creating Content to Attract Links on #SEOchat - Search Marketing Weekly. Fast FAQ: All About The New Google "Hummingbird" Algorithm. Ervinjuresa : Backlinks: How important are... Backlinks: How important are they? - Wellwrittenwords Speaks SEO. 4 Ways to Wash Away The Link Building Hate. This is a post from one link building nut to link building nuts everywhere.

4 Ways to Wash Away The Link Building Hate

You know who you are. Link builders love building links — most of the time. But there are lots of reasons to hate it, too. If you hate link building and you’re a link builder, you’d better take a serious look at what’s going on inside your head before you develop a more serious condition. Think of this as a free counseling session. Most of the good link builders hear a lot of voices in their head.Some say that’s what makes them good.Image via Shutterstock. SEO's Dilemma - Link Building vs. Content Marketing - Whiteboard Friday. The Most Dangerous Landing Page Mistakes & How You Can Fix Them. The point of this article isn’t to continue to point out the obvious, but to show the more costly mistakes in terms of lost revenue and lost leads.

The Most Dangerous Landing Page Mistakes & How You Can Fix Them

Read the most dangerous mistakes you can make when it comes to your landing pages and learn how you can correct them. Mistake 1 – The “Disconnected” Headline When visitors see and click an ad, they immediately have a few “expectations” of what they want see on the page that follows the click of the ad. If your Landing Page Headline is NOT a continuation of the conversation that you started with your PPC ad, you are shooting yourself in the foot!

OMReport Interview with Eric Enge (Stone Temple Consulting) - AKM3. Todays OMReport interview guest: Eric Enge – Since 1997 he has been president of Stone Temple Consulting.

OMReport Interview with Eric Enge (Stone Temple Consulting) - AKM3

In this capacity he is also well known for his Stone Temple Interviews where he is talking to social media- and search engine industry leaders such as Matt Cutts for example. In addition, Eric is also a columnist for Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Land and, along with Rand Fishkin among others, published the book The Art of SEO. Andre Alpar: Hi Eric, can you please introduce yourself? Eric Enge: Sure. I am Eric Enge, CEO of Stone Temple Consulting a twenty-five-plus person SEO, social media and content marketing consulting firm.

Video for DAM and Content Strategies. The Resurgence of Long-Tail Keywords in SEO. Long-tail keywords became accepted as a fantastic way to gain search traffic a few years ago.

The Resurgence of Long-Tail Keywords in SEO

Rankings were easier to attain, competition was lower, and it was comparatively easier to optimize for pages that targeted such keywords. It's been about six years since long-tail keywords became a hot SEO property. However, that's ancient history to many folks –many people have forgotten about this pot of gold. WordPress SEO Cloud Web Hosting Social Media. The Ultimate Guide to On-Page SEO - FREE eBook. Finally, an eBook that addresses the needs of new and do it yourself web designers! This eBook truly is “The Ultimate Guide to On-Page SEO”. Everything you need to know to properly code and design your website so that it is search engine friendly and visible for the keywords that you want or need to be found for in order to be successful in your online marketing efforts. And now, you can DOWNLOAD it for FREE, for a limited time only! Which HTML tags really matterHow to craft content that is search engine friendlyHow to avoid search engine penalties.

14 Point Site Audit for SEO. In the same way no two writers approach a writing project in an identical way, there is huge scope for individuality in the way that seasoned SEOs tackle the all-important site audit, without which you have no foundation for effective SEO. In fact, a thorough site audit is possibly one of the most important items in SEO best practices. 10 Reasons Why Public Relations is a ‘Must-do’ for SEO in 2013. Many people today recognize that search engine optimization (SEO) and public relations (PR) have much to offer each other. The latest Google changes have put a real emphasis on high quality, unique content that is linked to by quality sites. And this is where real public relations – as opposed to crappy news release distribution – can play such a crucial role.

There are real opportunities for great business. What follows are 10 reasons why SEOs should really get to grips with PR in 2013, based on my conversations with the people who are making the two work together. 1. Most of us who have been in link building for a while have in the past experienced a certain degree of frostiness from the PR industry. Mike Cherenson is a former Chair and CEO of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and is EVP of Success Communications Group. Matt Cutts Of Google's Reaction To A Bad SEO Question. When Link Audits Become SEO Audits - 6 Ways an Inbound Link Analysis Can Uncover Technical SEO Problems. When launching an SEO initiative, it’s incredibly important to perform a thorough inbound link analysis. Link audits can reveal a website’s strongest, weakest, and riskiest links.

It can also help you understand more about the domains linking to a given website, and which content attracted those links. And above all, a robust link audit can drive future link building efforts. But, that’s not all it can do. It can also reveal serious technical SEO problems. Stay-on-top-of-critical-issues-with-new-crawl-error-alerts.

How to Lose Money on Paid Search Advertising. Not finding a mistake like this can really hurt... I have wanted to write this article for quite some time. It just seems there’s not enough time in the day to get to all the little “want to do’s” lists that I have. However, I finally have a minute to sit down and bang this one out, so here it goes. Link Building Software a Bargain? Think Again! What You Need to Know About Googe’s Sitelink Policy Update. A Mathematical Model for Assessing Page Quality. Google Chrome Adds Do Not Track Option. Google has become the latest browser developer to offer the users a 'do not track' option. The company said that the feature, which is still in being tested, would be available as part of the latest 'Canary' build of the Chromium.

The company has said that the feature could be included into the general release build of Chrome by the end of the year. Google Pushing Out Panda Update 3.9 Tonight. Google's Matt Cutts On Links vs. Social Signals. Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam, was interviewed at SMX Advanced by Danny Sullivan. The latest video snippet was of links versus social signals. 2012 Community Survey. Web Content Strategy, SEO and Internet Marketing. There are tens to hundreds of different WordPress themes being created each day. Different themes can be found on official repository of WordPress themes, companies and theme designers’ blogs, different webmaster forums and other blogs and websites.

Blekko SEO Tool Now Gets More Up-To-Date Info from Search Engine Crawler. Blekko has announced a major improvement to their free SEO tools, by way of more comprehensive, current crawl data from their Scoutjet crawler. SEO Consultant - Scott D Smith, SEO Expert plans from only £250/m. How To Creatively & Effectively Build Links Using Public Data. Governments, non-profit and other organisations are under constant pressure to improve transparency and, as a result, are making vast amounts of data available to the public. The range of data sets available is enormous, with 16 nations currently spear heading open data initiatives, and countless private organisations publishing data online – the US alone has published more than 400,000 data sets.

The Holy Grail of Panda Recovery – a 1 year Case Study. Prospective client: Help! SEO Report. Verve Search » Blog Archive Have you got the SEO Force? 12 Most Popular Pinners on Pinterest.

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Authority, Scoring, Freshness Signals Among Google’s April Algorithm Updates. Bing Overtakes Yahoo As the Number Two Search Engine [STUDY] Yes, Negative SEO Techniques do Work on Google.