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Top 10 Most Important Google News Ranking Factors | Google News Ranking Factors 2011
The first survey of some of the top News SEOs about the factors that impact a site's rankings in Google News.  Participants include SEOs for NYT, CNN, ESPN, ABC News, NY Daily News, PopSugar, Financial Times and more. Read more
How Did The Top Local Sites Do In Google’s Farmer Update?
I list of the big local site winners and losers from Google's Farmer Update according to Quantcast Read more
Google Instant Previews Choke On Meta Description Tags
With Google Instant Previews SEO's are going to have to choose between displaying a meta description snippet or a Preview Call Out. Read more
Google Instant. SEO is dead. Yes, I’m sick of hearing about it too. But, Greg Boser alerted me via Twitter today that TechCrunch had made a blog post that showed a clear misunderstanding of Google Instant in regards to SEO... Read more
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And of course as the drama builds... we also have Andy getting into the act with his 2c on the whole LDA matter. I guess by now Rand has learned to be ready to bob and weave when a new tool/service is released huh? Let the fun begin! Read more
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Some data on the first 12 hours of referrals to my blog comparing Google Instant referrals to Google "Classic".  Initial findings: Instant is better. Read more
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An awesome report worth going thoroughly into. Huge work done as well. Read more
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It may seem like a basic enough concept and post, but believe it or not, everyday I see so many people doing it wrong.  Good job to Chuck for posting this great information about having clean URLs and their benefit to SEO. Read more
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Andrew Shotland creates an excellent rhetorical list of necessary local search tools. Read more
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As Google's sophistication has increased in sync with their dedication to rank better-quality content higher, perhaps it would be wise to incorporate grammar and spelling into search optimization criteria. Read more
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Magestic SEO is a great link intelligence tool, and the best part is that it’s free, at least a big part of it is. This post covers ways to use Majestic SEO on your own link data, so you should already have an account set up and your website verified. Read more
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My latest offering over on SEJ - I felt there was too much 'LSI' crap and not enough discussions out there on semantic analysis and how SEOs can better understand/use the concepts in KW research and content development. So here it is. Oh and a ton o… Read more
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Comprehenive and Local Search Directories For Vertical SEO. This post has a list of some interesting directories listed for vertical search. Worth checking it out! Read more
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Some good observations from Chris at SmallBusinessShift.com.  "The problem seems to largely stem from the fact that most of these salespeople are working for a commission, and business owners are hesitant to commit their money to an untested… Read more
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Feeling desperate to improve your status on Yelp? Considering bribing customers to write reviews on Yelp or paying someone to do it? Think again after you read these cautions. Read more
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My original intent for this whole test was to see how TOPSEO’s would go about contacting TKG. Would they send the company an email through our sales email address? Would they try to call us? Would I get a response to my personal email address? I was a… Read more
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Patents, Papers and Lectures - is the second part of my journey into the geekier side of social media. This time there are patents from FaceBook, Twitter research and a ton of great video lectures for those wanting to get past the every-day of social… Read more
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Over the years I've come across a variety of SEO Badges. One of the more frequent badge sightings are those from TOPSEOs.com. When did TOPSEOs become an Independent Authority on Search Vendors? I have many unanswered questions and I'm hoping the… Read more
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Will Hanke talks about being coconscious of what you post on your blog or social media profiles.  Due to tweets and status updates sometimes prominently in the SERP, negative comments are not likely good business practice. Read more
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Glen continues to impress me with his unrelenting quest to write truly useful posts. No high-level, water-downed tips here. He actually goes out of his way to explain some very "diamond in the rough" techniques and websites. Read more
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Andrew Shotland (serious local geek) has some pretty good resources here - didn't see much chatter about this post....thought it worth sharing. Handy stuff Read more
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Brett Borders gives marketers a few tips on how to bury negative publicity with new pages on the same sub domain. Read more
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Some golden nuggets for people who are making a foray into the SEO world and a great learning resource for people who think they know SEO but actually don't. Read more
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From The Page:  From Facebook to YouTube to Digg and beyond, which media outlets will net the most bang for the buck in terms of customer communication, brand exposure, traffic, and SEO? Read more
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We talked with 35 Search Marketing Gurus (including Aaron Wall, Rand Fishkin, Ann Smarty, Michael Gray, Todd Malicoat, David Harry, Gab Goldenberg, Ian Lurie, Patrick Altoft, Jill Whalen, Michael Martinez, Dana Lookadoo, Garrett French, Marty Weintraub… Read more
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