At the social media, SEO meet ups I go to, there is always one guy who pops this question, how does SEO and Social Media work together? Do they? Do they not? Although it is a relevant question, considering the fact that social media remains an undefined chapter, or rather a “bracket-less stream”, experiments and data are probably the best ways to find clues to this answer. The SEO side of me suggests that yes Social Media helps leverage SEO but the ardent Social Media fan suggests that I’m Read full article [...]
Mobile web users are growing exponentially. Today, visits from tablet and mobile devices are at an all time high and its become important as ever to ensure your website content being available to mobile devices. The trend is towards responsive design, where the same website content is styled or reformatted in such a way that it caters to mobile devices as well. An important part in responsive design is to find that magical design that looks good on all screens and devices without creating any user Read full article [...]
With the Google Penguin update, there’s a lot of commotion among webmasters. Many folks have reported quick spike in traffic while some, who have been safe all through the Panda updates earlier, reported lower traffic. As always, it’s a bit immature to make a judgment too early, as the update is only gradually rolling out. However, I think this is an update which gives webmasters a very strong message unlike any earlier ones, and SEOs are doing all that they can to make sure their site is alright.
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So, yesterday Google updated the Google Webmaster’s tool with a nice little improvement to the search query report.
Sitting under Your site on the web > Search queries menu, this tool now shows more than 2000 queries, let’s you download the search query data programmatically and shows all the (read entire) search data to your website for the last 90 days (was 35 earlier).
This is a great improvement, because webmasters used to rely on Analytics data for search queries so far, which is Read full article [...]
Klout is undoubtedly the leader in measuring social influence on the web. A great app that does some really cool things with your social data. However, its difficult to comprehend how it works and the ratings are speculative.
There are many grey areas in their algorithm (which I guess they admit as well), but clearly there’s a lot of effort put in, to make sense of all those data. At least, they have great graphics and the data in perspective is better than anyone else out there – though it Read full article [...]
So far, there are no official declarations or tweets from Google (Writing this at 5pm PST), but Danny Sullivan claims that the latest Google update is called “Penguin” within Google.
WebPronews reports that the only evidence we have is a picture Matt Cutts tweeted, a while back.
No word from Matt yet, though. It could be a joke, a hint or just a co-incidence.
What’s hilarious is that there’s a wire cutter seen in the background, in the picture he tweeted. Someone at Google Read full article [...]
So, this week was pretty active. With Google rolling out its updates and people complaining about losing and gaining traffic, there was lot of hub-bub over the changes. Google kept us busy with couple of product launches as well – which added to the excitement. So, what happened in Search Marketing last week? Google Drive launched on April 24th. It had nothing to do with SEO or SEM directly, but this website (Sanil) found something interesting. Google was ranking its own page for the search Read full article [...]
We’ve all come across it. You click on a very reputed site’s link from Google results and while at the site, before the actual content the ad pops up (actually fills up) and you got to click some tiny “x” somewhere there to move further ahead that it almost becomes a mini game in itself.
So, there are technically two parts to the whole process soon after the click. One – the game (err.. the Ad) and then the clicking part which takes you to the actual content.
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If you have noticed Google’s official blog or press releases, you will notice that they keep repeating certain phrases time and again, never really bothering to explain what exactly it means. They sure give you hints and pointers but never the beef. It looks like “High Quality Content” tops the charts of the most used phrases from Google.
WTF does high quality site mean, after all?
While all of us (website owners and webmasters) are striving to create amazing content, trying to keep readers Read full article [...]
It looks like, Google has updated its algorithms significantly recently (Apr 24), and webmasters are as usual, looking very agitated. SEO forums are reporting ups and downs in traffic, but these are not sure signals at the moment, as anything solid can only be seen over the coming days. Google’s new update is all about fighting webspam this time – “leveling the playground” – in Matt Cutt’s words. The official blog warns – “In the next few days, we’re launching an important algorithm Read full article [...]
