As I have covered time and time again, email marketing is still the best source of targeted traffic you have at your disposal whenever you need a quick burst to send to an offer or just a new article you have written. These are people who like your content to the point that they have […]
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Matt Cutts, the face of Google’s SEO team, recently put out a shoutcast to address a new spam related algo update (another one?!) which has been nicknamed the Google PayDay loans algorithm update by a lot of search engine marketers. Google PayDay Loans Algorithm Update The name comes from the sorts of search queries the
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A quick SEO tip which a lot of webmasters overlook is setting a preferred domain for each of their sites. First I’ll show you how to do it, then I’ll explain why it’s a simple but important change to make in your Google Webmaster Tools. How to Set a Preferred Domain Why Set a Preferred
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Last year we saw one of the biggest supposedly private blog networks, Build My Rank, go down. The reason it went down with a bullet courtesy of Google was simply because, A: it was abused, and B: it wasn’t private. Let’s talk about what makes a private blog network private. What Makes a Private Blog
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Branding is incredibly important from an SEO point of view and one of Google’s new ranking factors which they are looking increasingly at. Gone are the days when good backlinks were enough to get you by. Now you have to consider social proof, user metrics, and branding, as well, so let’s talk about the major
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When you experience a sudden traffic drop, that drop could be attributed to any number of causes. The first thing you should always do is check your Google Analytics profile. Through insights they’ll give you updates on your profile to reflect substantial changes to your site, particularly traffic. Odds are you’ll have noticed the effects
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Google Penguin 2.0 is being rolled out and the effects are beginning to be felt. Last year around this time when the first Penguin updates were being rolled out, I covered how to make yourself Penguin proof and talked about what went into that update. To reduce it all to one term, “over-optimization” was the
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As I talked about last week, there has long been a great deal of speculation on the topic of does negative SEO exist. The Google Disavow Link Tool is a nifty new tool from Google Webmaster tools which allows webmasters to pick and choose which sites/pages linking to their site which they don’t want to
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Negative SEO has become a topic of interest since automatic link building tools have allowed webmasters to create (low quality) links en masse and more recently since Google began punishing webmasters for unnatural SEO. But does negative SEO exist? Does Negative SEO Exist It’s a bit ironic how SEO has evolved when it comes to
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2013 SEO ranking is decidedly different than SEO from last year and even more different from years ago. I did a post a year and a half ago on Google ranking factors but SEO evolves at such a high rate I thought it important to throw my 2 cents to how exactly I believe that
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