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Graph’s not dead Facebook has recently disabled the usual way of performing Graph searches, which worked by crafting URLs in the correct format. This strongly limited the capacity of researchers, journalists and investigators to make researches using Facebook data. Immediately the OSINT community reacted finding workarounds to this limitations. D Nemec and Henk Van Ess published a list of searches that can be made by the interface. Soonafter, I published the tool fb-search, allowing users to easily perform searches. Social Links also published an article that shows another way to perform some Graph searches, although cumbersome, since it consists of replacing some values in an http requests. To demonstrate how this functionality can be used easily, I have built a Firefox extension that lets you perform several Graph searches using the above trick. Disclaimer: make sure to read Facebook Terms of Service. Update: Searchbook now also works on Chrome too:
Finding more mobile-friendly search results Webmaster level: all When it comes to search on mobile devices, users should get the most relevant and timely results, no matter if the information lives on mobile-friendly web pages or apps. As more people use mobile devices to access the internet, our algorithms have to adapt to these usage patterns. In the past, we’ve made updates to ensure a site is configured properly and viewable on modern devices. We’ve made it easier for users to find mobile-friendly web pages and we’ve introduced App Indexing to surface useful content from apps. 1. Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. To get help with making a mobile-friendly site, check out our guide to mobile-friendly sites. If you want to test a few pages, you can use the Mobile-Friendly Test. 2. Starting today, we will begin to use information from indexed apps as a factor in ranking for signed-in users who have the app installed.
tinfoleak | Free dossier of a twitter user 8 hot SEO tips from industry experts - SMX West 2015 recap 8 Freshest SEO Tips From Industry Experts Brought to you from SMX West 2015 Conference Wonder what's trending in SEO in 2015? We've got your back. Here're the practical SEO tips and advice from industry experts that the SEO PowerSuite team brought back from Search Marketing Expo 2015 in San Jose — one of the biggest industry conferences out there. Latest news directly from Google and Bing Know-hows on fighting Penguin, Panda — from most trusted SEO experts Best SEO practices that really work in 2015 Search Marketing Expo is where professional SEOs and Internet marketers like you go for the latest tactics for increasing visibility, traffic, conversions and sales. 1 Keyword Research: customer profiling and search intent Does your keyword research still boil down to digging AdWords Keyword Planner for niche keywords, search volume and competition? Then it's just the time for you to introduce customer profiling into your keyword research workflow. Mindy Weinstein 1. 2. 3. Kate Morris Ehren Reilly
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: An update on doorway pages Google’s Search Quality team is continually working on ways in which to minimize the impact of webspam on users. This includes doorway pages. We have a long-standing view that doorway pages that created solely for search engines can harm the quality of the user’s search experience. For example, searchers might get a list of results that all go to the same site. Over time, we've seen sites try to maximize their “search footprint” without adding clear, unique value. To help webmasters better understand our guidelines, we've added clarifying examples and freshened our definition of doorway pages in our Quality Guidelines. Here are questions to ask of pages that could be seen as doorway pages: Is the purpose to optimize for search engines and funnel visitors into the actual usable or relevant portion of your site, or are they an integral part of your site’s user experience?
7 SEO Strategies You Can't be Without in 2015 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) sounds a bit like rocket science. With the right combo of this widget and that module, add in time, subtract theory and maybe the equation will produce a solution better than the last. Like most technology, what was applied last year in online marketing efforts may already be outdated. When much of the bottom-line depends on the ability to reach more potential customers, readers and service users, it only makes sense to do everything in your power to enhance that reach. To do so, enlist the company of tried and true third party tools as well as free resources from the search engine rulers themselves, Google and Bing. 1. In a recent study, GlobalWebIndex took a sampling of 170,000 adults in 32 markets around the globe. As mentioned in SEO PowerSuite’s recent guide to mobile-friendly sites, for Google, nearly 50 percent of all traffic is mobile. Recall the frustrations when you get to the webpage you were looking for, click on content and nothing comes up?
11 Ways To Maximize Engagement On Your Tweets For gaining more engagement, clicks, retweets, and replies, Twitter images work. It’s why we created Pablo—a simple way to create social media images in under 30 seconds—and it’s why we love sharing all the tips we can about creating great visuals for social media. Our own research has helped us see the value of Twitter images as being eminently click-worthy and shareworthy. The Data Behind Shareworthy Twitter Images Our early research into Twitter visuals for the @buffer Twitter account, back in November 2013, showed that tweets with photos earned 150 percent more retweets and 18 percent more clicks. Additional research, from Twitter’s data team even, confirms the power of images. Here’s a brief overview of what Twitter found to be the most influential factors in being retweeted. The study looked at a set of thousands of verified users in the United States, analyzing over 2 million tweets. The logical conclusion? From Dan: How to Create and Share an Image on Twitter 1. Voila! 2. 4. 5. 5. 6.
The Incredible Shrinking SERP - 2015 Edition In the beginning, there were 10 results, and it was good. Then, came expanded site-links and Google's 7-result SERP. Around the middle of 2014, we started to hear reports of SERPs with odd numbers of organic results – 9, 8, 6, 5, and even 4 page-1 results. By some counts, there are as many as 16 non-paid links on this page (not counting images), but by traditional SEO standards, there are only 4 true organic positions for which you can compete. It's all in the news For a couple of months, I just assumed these strange result counts were some kind of glitch. The presence of News results seemed to be cyclical, dipping early in the week and peaking later in the week. While the scale of the change was much smaller (please note that both graphs have a restricted Y-axis to make the effect more visible), the opposing shapes of the curves seemed like more than a coincidence. It's a vertical, vertical world Spot-checking various SERPs, I was able to confirm this effect. It's always something