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Search Engine Watch December 30, 2008 Mark Jackson |
The Paid Links Debate Rages On Should an ethical SEO recommend paid links to their clients? |
Search Engine Watch August 13, 2010 Nichola Stott |
Internal Link Housekeeping To get the best from your internal link strategy, it's a good idea to perform regular housekeeping checks looking at these three areas. |
Search Engine Watch November 2, 2010 Kristi Hines |
Link Building: 3 Strategies for Link Requests Here's what you need to be aware of when contacting webmasters as a representative of the client or as a brand advocate when requesting links. |
Search Engine Watch August 15, 2008 Frank Watson |
Google SERP Bias? Google Knols Best If you need some lift, start dropping pages into Google Knol and Google pages. They show up in the organic results faster than you can get them through Webmaster Central. |
Search Engine Watch November 4, 2010 John Lynch |
Deconstructing Link Value Factors Links are the primary driver of domain authority and the key to ranking quality content. An outline of the factors that affect the value of a link. |
Search Engine Watch April 22, 2010 John Lynch |
Analyzing the 9 Most Common Link Building Strategies A detailed breakdown of all link major link building tactics, an analysis of costs and benefits, and the risks of incurring a penalty from a search engine. |
Search Engine Watch June 3, 2009 Kevin Newcomb |
Google Changes Course on Nofollow Google used to advise SEOs that using the nofollow attribute on internal links could help save PageRank for more important pages. Now Matt Cutts has said that's no longer the case. |
Search Engine Watch January 6, 2009 Mark Jackson |
There's No Shortcut to Good SEO...Or Is There? If search engines want all SEOs to operate in an ethical manner, they should show us that they're penalizing the Web sites that abuse their guidelines, and reward those who follow their guidelines. |
Search Engine Watch December 5, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google Offers SEO Selection Guidelines At the end of last month, Google rolled out a new page offering advice to those seeking a search engine optimization firm. Since being unveiled, there's been both support and criticism of the tips and recommendations that Google has posted in various SEO forums. |
Search Engine Watch July 30, 2009 Sage Lewis |
Re-Thinking Link Building Commentary Readers respond to Sage's last column, where he urged them to change the way they think about link building. |
Search Engine Watch July 14, 2009 Eric Enge |
Should You Still Use Nofollow? Recent changes in the processing of the nofollow attribute have caused consternation and concern among many publishers. How should you adapt your on-page SEO strategy? |
Search Engine Watch February 3, 2011 Jeremy Bencken |
Fixing the Web's Lost Content: An 8 Step Guide for Link Builders This strategy takes an extreme approach to designing an entire campaign around creating content curators want to link to -- it's a safe bet they want to fix their dead links. Here's how to do it. |
Search Engine Watch March 21, 2011 Josh McCoy |
The Slippery Slope of SEO Recent algorithmic updates didn't just hurt the bad guys and clean up the SERPs. Many other sites felt the wrath of Google's tweaks. So, how do you adjust fire and move on from here? |
Search Engine Watch March 18, 2011 Rob Chant |
How Small Businesses Can Get a Link from Wikipedia If you want a link from Wikipedia, it will be a hard process. Here's a four-step strategy that will potentially get you that link. |
Search Engine Watch February 21, 2011 Josh McCoy |
Big Brands and Bad Linking: How to Avoid Google Penalties The recent hype involving JCPenney's linking scheme penalty may have many wondering if their SEO firm is playing by the rules. Learn how you can avoid punishment from Google. |
Search Engine Watch September 1, 2010 Jeremy Bencken |
6 Metrics You Need to Manage Link Building You can't manage what you don't measure. When it comes to building a sustainable link building process, measurement is everything. |
Search Engine Watch August 24, 2010 Gareth Owen |
Don't be Afraid of URL Links Monitor and manage the spread of URL vs. keyword rich links across your client's profile. And don't worry if you get really high quality links that only use your client's URL. |
Search Engine Watch April 28, 2011 Jeremy Bencken |
50+ Tools to Automate Your Link Building These backlink analysis and link prospecting tools can help link builders shift their workload to computers as much as humanly possible. |
Search Engine Watch March 8, 2011 Kristi Hines |
Google Panda Update: Say Goodbye to Low-Quality Link Building What does the recent news of Google penalties and recent algorithm updates mean for your link building strategies? Advice on how you can determine valuable backlink opportunities. |
Search Engine Watch November 24, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Natural Link Building Practices Don't take chances buying links. Make these safe, proven link building tactics part of your search engine optimization strategy. |
Search Engine Watch February 20, 2009 Chris Boggs |
Be My Valentine: Please Link to Me? Here's a look at how the process of requesting links for your Web site can work, its continued importance, and the strategy behind picking the right sites to ask. |
Search Engine Watch February 27, 2011 Mark Jackson |
The Difference Between Black Hat SEO and Bad SEO The safest way to build up trust/links for your website is to create good, unique, resourceful/helpful content, promote via social channels, and try to win links the "white hat" way. |
Search Engine Watch March 4, 2011 Eric Enge |
Case Study: Impact of Code Cleanup on Site Traffic How six months of improving site speed saw 40 percent increase in traffic. |
Search Engine Watch June 15, 2010 Kristi Hines |
Competitor Research - Focusing on Companies, Keywords, and Broken Links Tips on researching keyword advertising competitors, how to convince webmasters to link to your client's site, and some useful tools you can use. |
Search Engine Watch March 28, 2008 Marty Weintraub |
Google Bombs, Jew Watch News & the Hypocritical Linking Universe The author's examination of "google bombing" and how this technique intersects with search engine optimization. Is Google hypocritical in its solutions to the problem of using links to determine relevancy? |
Search Engine Watch July 30, 2008 Eric Enge |
Google vs. Yahoo on Paid Links Google created a firestorm in the industry with its Paid Links directive. So where does Yahoo stand in the Paid Links debate? |
Search Engine Watch August 12, 2010 Peter van der Graaf |
Optimizing Your Existing Links Contacting your link partners can improve your link profile and rankings. Here are some helpful link building strategies, plus some pitfalls you'll want avoid. |
Search Engine Watch March 26, 2009 Sage Lewis |
My Thoughts on Promo Outcomes Asking people to give feedback about your product or service is great on many levels. It builds relationships and provides incredibly valuable information. |
Search Engine Watch April 24, 2009 Chris Boggs |
Performance Management for SEO Teams Disciplined companies that are able to drive efficiencies through performance reviews and goal-setting can get an edge in SEO as well. |
Search Engine Watch March 3, 2009 Carrie Hill |
SMB Link Building Without a Dime Link building doesn't have to be expensive. The first step in finding good links actually started a while ago, when you got to work writing great content that others will want to link to. Next comes scoping out your top-ranking competitors and copying what they're doing right. |
Search Engine Watch June 17, 2009 Kevin Newcomb |
Following the Nofollow Kerfuffle Matt Cutts says Google changed its handling of nofollow last year, but no one noticed. Can that really be what happened? |
InternetNews January 2, 2007 David Needle |
Google May Open Up Blog It was a big year for Google's own blog (even if you don't think it really is one). |
Search Engine Watch January 10, 2011 Adam Audette |
Quit Obsessing On Anchor Text Already Instead of creating links with exact-match anchor text, work hard to build great, unique content and resources that are real contributions on the web. Provide value that builds links over time based on its own merit. |
Search Engine Watch January 6, 2011 Guillaume Bouchard |
Using Social Media to Boost Search Rankings Social media can be used for more than branding, customer service, PR, and retention. It can also be used to support your rankings in the SERPs. |
Search Engine Watch April 21, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Link Building? How About Link Optimization? Without a doubt, one of the toughest things to do is to build link popularity for your Web site. |
Search Engine Watch September 30, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Tin Foil Hat? I Have Mine On When Google advises against URL rewriting in their Webmaster Central blog, is there an ulterior motive? |
Search Engine Watch February 21, 2007 Andrew Goodman |
2007: A Search Odyssey? Keynote Conversation with Matt Cutts At SES London, Google's most famous engineer shared his thoughts on search spam, personalization, and the future of Google. |
Search Engine Watch January 9, 2011 Eric Enge |
6 Ways to Sculpt Your Site's Link Equity Want to see a significant impact on rankings and traffic? Here are a few ways you can use link equity to help pages rank for particular search queries. |
Search Engine Watch June 6, 2008 Frank Watson |
What is Valid Link Bait? Hidden widget links. Social media traffic bait. Morality and marketing living together. |
Search Engine Watch August 10, 2010 Kristi Hines |
7 Things to Watch Out for When Link Building What you should lookout for or check in advance before trying to get a link on a particular page or website. These seven things will save you time, effort, and money. |
Search Engine Watch January 23, 2009 Chris Boggs |
A Linking Strategy Is About More Than Just Quality Content Some SEOs seem to think that all you need to do to get good links is to build quality content, but improving the quality and quantity of your inbound links doesn't rest on the shoulders of good content alone. |
Search Engine Watch October 28, 2010 Garrett French |
How to Find Safe, Valuable, and Scalable Link Building Opportunities A guide for finding trustworthy links that drive the right traffic to your site. |
Search Engine Watch February 17, 2009 Carrie Hill |
Marketing your SMB with Time & Elbow Grease, Part 1 This is the first in a series of articles that will give actionable advice on how to improve your rankings or revenue from search with no dollar investments - aside from the time and effort it takes to research and implement these changes. |
Search Engine Watch July 13, 2010 Kristi Hines |
Win the Best High Volume Links Some tips for getting the best of your client's competitors' links for higher volume while still sticking to your principles of better link quality. |
Search Engine Watch July 17, 2009 Chris Boggs |
Building Directory Links: A Valuable SEO Tactic? One of the longest-tenured tactics in link building is to build links within topical free and paid directories. Is that still a valuable SEO tactic? |
Search Engine Watch February 25, 2009 Eric Enge |
Maintaining an SEO Log At its root, SEO is an inexact science. It's a world where we follow best practices and use our best judgment to make decisions on what to do next. |
InternetNews November 4, 2005 Brian Livingston |
'Googlewashing' Makes Your Site Invisible A growing number of content-based businesses face a serious new threat to their publishing rights and search rankings. |
Search Engine Watch May 8, 2008 Sage Lewis |
Giving Links Away There are a few ways of controlling what pages of your site share their link love. PageRank "sculpting" and siloing are two methods that use the "nofollow" attribute to control which links are counted in search engine ranking algorithms. |
Search Engine Watch February 22, 2011 Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
Link Lovers From Hell Warning! These are some of the more undesirable link partners you'll come across on the web -- sites you definitely don't want to take home to mom. |
Search Engine Watch July 7, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Top Signs Your Site Isn't Ready for Prime Time, Part 2 We've already looked at three of the common failings of Web sites for "newbies" who are trying to figure out SEO. Now let's look the title tag, domain age, and link building to see if your Web site is ready for prime time. |