Part of the Google Hummingbird update means that Google is no longer giving out keyword stats via their keyword tool which millions of internet marketers and SEOers have long relied on to find keywords to target for their websites and businesses. Instead they now offer the Keyword Planner. Google Keyword Tool Is Dead The Keyword […]
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The other week I answered the question of what is Google Hummingbird and it begged a question in my mind. Is there a difference between Google Mobile and desktop? Doing a number of identical searches between a desktop and a mobile device has yielded the same results, just slightly rearranged occasionally to accommodate for a
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Google Hummingbird isn’t simply an algo update; it’s technically meant to replace their traditional search results system altogether. Have I got your attention? It’s not as painful as it sounds. In fact, unlike in major past algorithm updates like Panda or Penguin, SEOers aren’t reporting huge drops in traffic. It’s not as black and white
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There are a couple of specific ways in which webmasters can remove their site from appearing in Google. Why would you do this? One possibility is because you’re currently working on a website which is hosted and thus online but it’s not ready to be presented. In this case Google may index your site against
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Tiered link building has been around in the consciousness of the collective SEO world for a few years now. Some SEOers argue that Google updates like Penguin worked to undercut the efficacy of tiered link building or worse even punish you or negatively impact your rankings. First let’s address what tiered link building is. Tiered
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Submitting your blog or blogs to blog hubs is an effective way to grab some link juice but also some exposure and potentially a flood of traffic for your site(s). These blog aggregating sites can feature your work or advertise your blog itself to their existing users. Categorization means that your content is put in
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I harp on the importance of link diversity, all the time and how you should always be looking for different places, or perhaps better said “sources”, to get links regardless of the juice they may send your way. But what about not live links, how do they affect SEO? Not Live Links One source webmasters
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Awhile back I talked about getting the dreaded letter from Google informing you that they’ve detected that you’re doing something they don’t like. Matt Cutts, the face of Google’s web spam team, has said that they try to avoid the word “penalties” but instead favor the term “manual action”. Algorithmic Google Penalties A manual action
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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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