Using Schema.org and Micro Data to Boost You Google Places Rankings One of the most underutilized secrets in the world of local SEO is the influence of micro-data and schema.org encoding on Google Places rankings. If you don’t work in SEO you are thinking to yourself, huh? What the heck is this kid talking about? [...]
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It’s not a secret that search engine optimization is a very cunning and complicated craft. The actions you take in order to give your web resource more publicity may either result in having it highly promoted and indexed by search engines, or downgraded or even banned because of an incorrectly chosen strategy. That is why [...]
Did you see a significant drop in your website’s traffic around February last year? If so, chances are you were hit by Google’s Panda update, which acted as a quality filter and was aimed at reducing the amount of spammy content appearing in the search results. Since Google’s original release of Panda, there have been [...]
Varying your anchor text is essential for search engine rankings. You can’t simply link to your site using your keyword for anchor text over and over again and expect every single link to count a lot. The truth is that the days of exact match anchor text are over. You will attain stronger rankings by [...]
It’s important for a website owner to know how their site is doing with Search Engine Optimization and visitors. If you read SEO blogs on a regular basis, you have probably encountered some posts about free SEO reporting tools quite often. I have selected 5 of what I think are most useful SEO reporting tools [...]
Search Engine Optimization is an old term that has evolved a huge amount over the last decade. Making a site both user and search engine friendly can be difficult, but keeping up with what actually works can be even harder. Not that long ago SEO used to focus simply on backlinks and on-page optimization these [...]
They say it is better to see once than to hear 100 times. That is why most websites make use of visuals at least to some extent. There are also certain types of sites (stock photography sites or photography blogs) that CONSIST primarily of images. For such websites, ranking highly in Google Images is often [...]
Google is the No.1 Search Engine without any doubt, but are you spending time to increase your search ranking on Google? In my experience, many blogs get 75%+ of their niche traffic from Google Organic Search. This is critical to understand how to maximize and get the most of it. Here are some easy ways [...]
This article highlights 50 ways to get more traffic to your site. It should be used as a starting point when you have hit a wall and are looking for more ways to promote your site. The idea is not to use all of them, but to experiment and find out what works best for [...]
Have you heard about the art of article spinning? In short, article spinning is a search engine optimization technique by changing an existing article around to have it read differently in hopes that the search engine won’t detect the duplicate content. I know many internet marketers who run multiple blogs. Believe me, coming up with [...]
