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Are Category Keywords in the URL a Significant Ranking Signal Now?
Above: Not personalized search results for the query [content strategy mistakes]. I rank at #7. Look who ranks at #2 and #4. While trying to assess the impact of stolen and otherwise ...
Does Google Index Your robots.txt?
This is a guest post by SEO strategist Moosa Hemani. It has been slightly edited by myself, Tad Chef. robots.txt, a protocol that helps search engines to find out ...
Who is Your Competition on the Web?
Usually when people refer to their competitors they name a few businesses from the same industry who sell the same products or services as them. This might be ...
Google +1: The New SearchWiki?
2.5 Years ago I hailed the new search results customization feature by Google called SearchWiki. I loved it in spite of it being broken from the start. Nonetheless the sheer possibilities ...
Science vs Reality: Do Not Obey Scientists – Practice What Works in SEO & Beyond
* A few weeks ago I had a lively discussion on Twitter with two quite opinionated individuals who are quite known in the SEO industry. I won't name them ...
How to Remove utm_source & Other Parameters From Your URLs
These days it's a quite common and very annoying habit by a few services to attach utm_source and other parameters to your internet address aka URL. It's not only that. Basically anybody can ...
What Does My Bounce Rate Really Mean?
Image: Open 19 by Rupert Ganzer. As a modern day SEO I deal half of the day with decreasing bounce rates. It means: I try to make people visiting websites ...
Search Marketing Standard: The Future of Print & SEO – Interview with Associate Editor Frances Mary Krug
The Search Marketing Standard is not only the oldest search marketing print publication I know of, it's also the most focused and probably most popular one. Over the ...
Why People Hate Ads and Love SEO
Love by jimscottIMD. I hate ads. I'm not the only one. Most people hate annoying ads. People hate ads on the Web and block them using a plethora ...
How to Use LinkedIn for Marketing & SEO: 20 Resources
LinkedIn Tattoo by smi23le Summary: This a a comprehensive list of LinkedIn Marketing and SEO resources for business people of all kinds. This post will give you an overview ...
Software for SEO: Tools, Why & How to Track Rankings in a Personalized Search World
Actual rankings in Google Webmaster Tools. Here the query seo blog and the number of impressions for my blog. When it comes to software for SEO many people in the SEO industry ...
6 Twitter Social News Mashups that Kick Digg’s Ass
Refresh Monday is back. This time I revisit the 5 Twitter social news mashups that kick Digg's ass as two of them were obsolete by now. Plus I have added a new ...
SEO Test: Default Personalized Search is a Myth – It Doesn’t Work
During the recent three weeks I have performed a very simple SEO test to determine the influence of the newly introduced personalized search feature by Google. This one allegedly works with cookies ...
hkcMjRm: How to Use Google as URL Shortener
Google short URL: hkcMjRm. Update December, 15th 2009: Try it with http://l.gog.is/hkcMjRm. Moreover Google has launched it's own official Google URL shortener yesterday: goo.gl Thanks Brandon Diaz for the heads ...
Google Indexes Twitter Links
How to get Indexed by Google in 2009? Just use Twitter. This is no joke. I ran a test on Twitter to find out whether Google indexes Twitter links and surprise, surprise ...
The 7 Most Pressing Reasons to Control Google & Search not SEO
Google? "City gate, Dali" is a Creative Commons licensed image by Alexandra Moss A recent anonymous posting on Techcrunch proposes the
Matt Cutts Acknowledges SEO 2.0 Tactic of Linking Out as Ranking Factor (Nofollow is Dead)
Finally Matt Cutts of Google has acknowledged one of the most used SEO 2.0 tactics, linking out, as an important ranking factor.
Bing FAIL
Bing FAIL: This will be a short post, like the headline already suggests. You know, after the disastrous performance of Wolfram Alpha ...
User and Search Friendly URL Design for Multi-Language Websites in 4 Easy Steps
What an overwhelming headline! User and search friendly URL design for multi-language websites? What are you talking about? Let me explain. Then I'll introduce to you the 4 easy steps you ...
Search: 8 Reasons Why Wolfram Alpha is a Waste of Time and no Threat to Google
Wolfram Alpha is the new overhyped "Google killer" on the block. It's allegedly a search engine. Do you remember the last few much hyped Google ...