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Introducing LinkPatrol: A WordPress Plugin by Search Engine Journal
Search Engine Journal has been on WordPress for just over 10 years– we moved from Blogspot to our own hosted WordPress installation on April 22, 2004....
Learn How to “Make Conversion Happen” From Benj Arriola: A #SEOSummit Recap
SEJ’s Philippines team was privileged to attend last Saturday’s SEO Summit and meet the speakers. Among those speaking was the vice president for SEO at...
Critical Vulnerability Found In Popular WordPress Newsletter Plugin
Web security firm, Sucuri, found a critical vulnerability in a WordPress plug-in that has over 1.7 million downloads. The vulnerability allows potential attackers to take...
5 Things SEO Clients Shouldn’t Worry About
When you hire an SEO to optimize your website, there is understandably an element of concern for the success of the optimization campaign. SEO isn’t...
Takeaways from Jason Acidre’s “From Zero to Hero” #SEOSummit
One of the speakers at last month’s SEO Summit was Jason Acidre, the CEO and co-founder of Xight Interactive, an online marketing agency based in the...
‘What The Experts Say’: What’s Changed After Panda 4.0?
At the end of May, I wrote a round-up post of expert opinions on the latest big Google updates: Panda 4.0 and Payday Loan 2.0. Now...
This Week in WordPress
More than three out of five CMS based websites now are powered by WordPress, according to a W3Techs survey. Since it’s more likely that you’re a...
PR Newswire Responds To Panda 4.0 By Taking Action Against Spammers
When Panda 4.0 was rolled out last month, press release sites were hit particularly hard. PR Newswire lost around 63% of their SEO visibility as a...
An #Interview With Dennis Goedegebuure on AirBnB and Internal Linking
As part of our coverage from the sold-out Searchmetrics x Search Engine Journal conference in San Francisco on SEO, content marketing, and analytics, I caught up with...
eBay’s Jordan Koene on Improving Click-Through Rates for Better Rankings
As part of our coverage from the sold-out Searchmetrics x Search Engine Journal conference in San Francisco on SEO, content marketing, and analytics, I recently caught up with Jordan...
The Art of Peripheral Persuasion: Visuals in Web Design
They say that content is king, and that’s true. Quality, keyword-rich content will go a long way for your SEO and conversion rates. But people...
The Future Of SEO Is Personalized Search: Interview with Warren Lee
As part of our coverage from last week’s sold-out Searchmetrics x Search Engine Journal conference in San Francisco on SEO, Content Marketing and Analytics, I recently...
The Landing Page Optimization Guide You Wish You’ve Always Had
What follows is a list of resources that can be applied specifically to landing page optimization, originally repurposed from ConversionXL and other great websites around the web....
WordPress Takes A Stand Against Abuse Of DMCA Takedown Requests
Torrentfreak reported yesterday that WordPress has issued a lawsuit demanding $10,000 in compensation to cover damages suffered through a false DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notice. WordPress...
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Searchmetrics x SEJ Executive Marketing Conference [EVENT PHOTOS] #SEJSF
We packed the conference room in San Francisco’s Hotel Vitale for our first ever executive marketing conference, titled “SEO, Content Marketing and Analytics: 3 Pillars of...
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Ranking Factors Post-Hummingbird, Panda 4.0 by @marcustober [SESSION RECAP] #SEJSF
This is a session recap from Marcus Tober’s presentation on “The Search (R)evolution” from our June 13 San Francisco conference, “SEO, Content Marketing and Analytics:...
Understanding How to Use the Google Tag Manager
Just recently someone told me they stumbled upon the Google Tag Manager and had no idea how it worked or why it mattered. Believe it...
Multilingual SEO: It’s Actually a Pretty Big Challenge for Google to Determine the Language of a Query
There are many words which are spelled the same but have different meanings based on language and location. A very simple example is the word...
The 10 Most Popular WordPress Plugins
Ever since launching in 2003, WordPress has become the go-to publishing platform that has been downloaded well over 60 million times. But, what makes everyone...
A Flaw In The All-In-One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin May Be Putting Your Website At Risk
If you have the All-In-One SEO Pack WordPress plugin installed, your website may be at risk of being compromised if it’s not updated. A update was released...
SEO 101: 5 Ways to Optimize Your E-Commerce Content
Onsite copy is still one of the most important ranking factors, especially for newer sites. The trick is knowing what to look for, how to...
Global Marketing: 5 Common Mistakes to Avoid
Going global can be an exciting transition for any company. It can also be fraught with potential pitfalls, with many mistakes arising from marketers failing...
Yelp to Introduce Video Reviews
Business Insider is reporting a new development over at Yelp that aims to add some authenticity to a review. Elite users can expect video reviews...
New Research From Conductor Concludes Google Has 85% of Search Traffic, Not 67% as comScore Reports
Conductor has written a whitepaper around research that debunks some of comScore’s regularly released search market share numbers. Their findings were definitely enlightening, to say...
SEO 101: Are You Being Outranked by Your Own Content?
Unique, and original, content drives the Internet (so we’re constantly told), and we SEOs spend much of of our time producing and honing that content in...
E-Commerce 101: How to Get Started with SEO For Your Products on Amazon
It’s clear that Google and YouTube rankings are some of the most sought after rankings, but if you’re an e-commerce site or looking to sell...
What The Experts Have to Say: Google Panda 4.0 and Payday Loan 2.0 Updates
This week, Google announced that Google Panda 4.0 and a second iteration of its Payday Loan update have both been rolled out. We reached out...
Google Rolls Out Panda 4.0 & Payday Loan 2.0 Updates
Over the past 12 hours, we’ve had confirmation from Google that they’ve rolled out two web spam updates; Panda 4.0 and Payday Loan 2.0. Panda...
For the Non-SEO: What is “Bad Link Building”?
This post is aimed squarely at people who are not SEO practitioners yet but want to learn a little about Search Engine Optimization, as well...
SEO 101: Is a Fast Google Penalty Recovery Possible Using the Google Disavow Tool?
If your website falls prey to a Google Penalty, could you “resurrect” your website in search engine rankings within a very short period of time (such...