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[Update] Google Webmaster Tools Security Breach Confirmed
A justified panic gripped the SEO industry after word got out that Google Webmaster Tools has an extremely serious technical issue – old user accounts...
Fully Integrated Marketing THE Path for Brands to Succeed
Every day of the week, it seems, someone asks me if I can guarantee sales if they hire my public relations agency. Of course if...
7 Ways to Screw Up a Content Marketing Plan
Content marketing is all the rage right now – and with good reason! Not only can content marketing help you to expand your brand’s recognition...
Bing Webmaster Guidelines and the Import of Script
Bing is being criticized for having waited so long in releasing their Webmaster Guidelines, and even for having over generalized what Bing’s Duane Forrester termed “broad strokes of...
B2B Marketing Predictions for 2013
Change, innovation, progress, while these terms should always be associated with the positive, for marketers entrenched in their current methodologies, the future can seem down...
How to Write Sassy SEO Titles that Go Viral
A good title is a door for readers to enter your site. Then, it is up to you to make them feel at home, it...
#Amazon Offers Social Friendly “Pages” for Brands
Holiday shopping season has begun in earnest, and Amazon is kicking it off with new brand opportunities for their 3rd party vendors. Introducing Amazon Pages...
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I’m thankful for Penguin Recoveries During Panda Updates, for Manual Link Removals, and for the Disavow Tool [Case Study]
As Thanksgiving approaches, there are a few additional things for me to be thankful for this year. And as you can tell by the title...
4 Reasons Employers Should Invest in Building the AuthorRank of Employees
Inbound marketers are undoubtedly aware of AuthorRank and how much of a factor it can play in the success of content marketing efforts. If AuthorRank...
How to Diagnose and Repair Conversion Rate Problems
There’s almost nothing in the world more frustrating than a website that doesn’t convert as well as you expected it to. After all, you’ve put...
Can’t Rank? Link Building Won’t Help You
Some say “SEO is dead”, or dying. In reality SEO as we “used to practice it” is no longer valid. Looking at a history of...
Rumor Radar: Yahoo! Facebook Search Engine Plots
According to undisclosed sources cited by The Sunday Telegraph, Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo!, and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, are in talks...
Federal Judge Slaps Google – Watchdogs Cry “First Blood”
U.S District Court Judge Susan Illston hands down a ruling to approve the FTC’s $22.5-million fine of Google over privacy complaints. However, consumer advocacy groups consider...
US Public Perception of Bing Search Engine Up
According to YouGov BrandIndex, Microsoft is experiencing one of its biggest US consumer perception surges in two years, and Bing is riding the wave, mainly due...
Why You Shouldn’t Use Google’s New “Disavow Links” Tool
There’s no doubt that some webmasters are excited about the potential Google’s new “Disavow Links” tool holds for removing the negative valuation associated with low...
How to Prevent Negative SEO
Google’s recent Penguin update was designed to reduce the impact that low-quality backlinks had on a website’s natural search performance. And while this news was...
Facebook EdgeRank: The Truth About Page Feed Reach and Promoted Posts
There have been a lot of articles circulating through the blogosphere over the last several days about whether or not Facebook intentionally adjusted the EdgeRank...
When Link Audits Become SEO Audits: 6 Ways an Inbound Link Analysis Can Uncover Technical SEO Problems
When launching an SEO initiative, it’s incredibly important to perform a thorough inbound link analysis. Link audits can reveal a website’s strongest, weakest, and riskiest...
New Design on Google Search Results Pages
Internet users in the United States may have already noticed a slightly changed layout in Google.com search results. While the change will go unnoticed by...
A Conversation with Danny Sullivan
Recently I had the pleasure to talk with Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, about Search Marketing Expo. Danny serves as Third Door Media’s chief content...
Baidu Pay Per Click: 7 Tips for a Successful Campaign
Baidu is the most popular search engine in China, with over 400 million users. When Western marketers think of entering the Chinese market, Baidu is...
MajesticSEO Launches Backlink Upload Tool
Majestic SEO has added more tools to the SEO’s bag of tricks. Paid account users now have the option to upload their backlink list in...
Step-by-Step SEO: How to Setup Google+ Authorship
Google initially announced its authorship markup efforts at the 2011 SMX Advanced conference, and yet, many website owners and entrepreneurs have still failed to take...
Facebook Leaves the Privacy Barn Door Open to App Developers
Updated Post Yesterday afternoon, Miranda Miller of Search Engine Watch broke the news about how some Facebook app developers are exploiting the private information of...
Anchor Text Analysis: Post “Penguin” and EMD
We all know by now that over-optimized anchor text was a huge factor for sites that were dinged by the Google Penguin update. We’ve seen...
10 Post-Panda/Penguin Era Link Acquisition Strategies
In February of 2011, the introduction of the Panda update shook up the search results, altering more than one out of every 10 searches. Content...
Pubcon Presentation: Proactive Link Building Tactics
In the session at Pubcon Las Vegas 2012, I spoke about link building, essentially revealing what works and what does not in a post-penguin world....
25 Ways to Boost Community Engagement on Your Website
As a website owner, you’ve probably heard over and over again how important it is to build a community on your website. And while it’s...
Could Guest Posting Be Dead?
Guest posting has long been a killer way to get links, but is it dead? It’s no secret that the number one way online to...
How Marketers Can Work More Effectively with Their Designers
Marketers and designers always seem to be butting heads over their projects. But why is this? After all, managers and designers share the same goal:...