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Going on a date with Google - SEO Editors It’s all about the first date… and this post covers some of the devious lengths Google will go to to get it. Why does Google want to get a date out of you? Time is generally accepted as an essential ingredient in the calculations of relevancy in SERPs. Building Your Site's Link Popularity: Do's and Don&#03 This site is for sale, Learn More By Robin Nobles & Brent Winters Originally Published: Feburuary, 2003 Link popularity plays an important role in the visibility of your Web site. Without other sites linking to you, you're unlikely to climb to the top of the search results.

Careers Imagine there’s a new invention with the power to transform lives. Or an organization that can help people achieve their dreams. When the only obstacle to making an impact is getting the word out, we step in. SEER believes every great idea deserves the chance to be found. SEO and SEM are the tools we use to make that happen. Customize Your Website Software — Webmaster's Mobile Guide There are many ways to manage your website’s content. Some site owners completely build their own website from scratch. Others may use an existing software package from a company like WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla, which can provide a theme, design, and templates.

How to Set Up Your Very Own Cloud Windows Server for SEO Provisioning a Server in The Good Old Days SEO Tools, particularly website audit ones like Xenu Link Sleuth or PowerMapper SortSite, can sometimes take a long time to run when examining particularly large websites. Occasionally you may even need to reboot your machine for some other reason, which then ruins some particular run of these tools, forcing you to start over.

Ajudar os usuários a encontrar páginas mobile-friendly Webmaster level: All Have you ever tapped on a Google Search result on your mobile phone, only to find yourself looking at a page where the text was too small, the links were tiny, and you had to scroll sideways to see all the content? This usually happens when the website has not been optimized to be viewed on a mobile phone. This can be a frustrating experience for our mobile searchers. Introducing Quality Impact – A New Way to Measure the Impact of Quality Score “What do I get out of improving my Quality Score?” is a common question among advertisers; soon Bing Ads will answer this question via a new feature named . Based upon the competition for the targeted traffic and the traffic volume, we will advise you the additional impressions you could gain by improving your Quality Score.

Optimising Bees for Google Image Search using CSS to Show Part of the Image Google has changed the way image search results are presented. This is having a major impact on traffic driven to sites from image search results. With Google trying to keep visitors away from your site, what can be done ? Why Google Modifies Your Title Tags - MattPolsky Google Webmaster Central describes the site title, or title tag, as a quick representation of the content of a result and its relevance to a specific query. Sounds basic right? However, one thing you may not know, or dealt with, is the fact that Google reserves the right to alter a title tag if they feel it isn’t the best representation of a page. Over a year ago, Pierre Far – a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst – explained that algorithms will generate multiple alternative titles so that pages aren’t constrained to having the same static title tag for every search query. The basic thought behind this to increase click-through ratios by displaying a “better,” more concise title tag or change the tag for semantic terms allowing users to easily recognize a relevant page.

  BBC links warning opens the door for more Negative SEO theories, daft…? by LeeColbran >> SEO4EGG Does the link warning received by the BBC open the door for more Negative SEO theories? I found the unnatural links warning thread on Google Product Forums to be extremely interesting for a number of reasons: How could the BBC ever get an unnautural links warning? Time to Retire Individual Keyword Rankings as a KPI Duncan Heath director of search strategy Once upon a time clients would come to us and would express an unwavering desire to rank their site in the top organic positions of Google SERPs for a narrow selection of keywords. Through a mix of onsite optimisation, content production and innovative link building, we could close-to-guarantee those rankings. We don’t make such guarantees anymore, nor would we want to, and this article discusses the main reasons why. Why we don’t obsess over individual rankings