By SUJAN PATEL at Search Engine Journal Sure, no one has a clear crystal ball that can predict what the search engines will and won’t do in the future. However, it is possible to extrapolate from their activities over the past few years and identify the trends that are pretty […]
Long-Tail Keywords Increase Rankings, Conversions : On-Page Optimization Not Dead
By Miranda Miller at Search Engine Watch On-page optimization for long-tail keywords can result in ranking more than a page higher in search results, compared to half a page optimizing with head terms, according to a study by New York-based SEO & SaaS company Conductor. They also found that long-tail keywords converted 2.5 […]
SEO Authority Building Tips : Best Strategies For Developing Authority
By Eric Enge at Search Engine Watch By now you know you need to focus on authority, your own, as well as relationships with other authorities. But what are the best strategies for developing authority? From an SEO perspective, building authority only works if you have some sort of web presence for people to capitalize […]
Google and Future of SEO : Interview with SEO Book’s Aaron Wall
By DAVID ANGOTTI at Search Engine Journal. Aaron Wall, an SEO consultant, book author, blogger, and the founder/owner of SEO Book, joins us today to discuss the future of SEO. He has spent years working in SEO, at one point even helping Google with a few projects so it’s fair […]
Top 10 Internet Memes of 2011 : Know Your Meme releases the top picks
By Abby Johnson at WebProNews What do you remember most about 2011? So far, we’ve looked at the most tweeted events, Facebook’s top status trends, celebrities who joined Twitter, Twitter’s top topics and hashtags, Yahoo, AOL/Ask, andBing‘s most searched for items. So, what does that leave? Internet memes, of course. What was your favorite Internet meme of […]
Google, Facebook Asked to Screen User Content in India : Indian Government Demands Content Censorship
Indian UPA Government Demands Content censorship on Technology Companies like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft By DAVID ANGOTTI at SEJ India, which has over 100 million active internet users and is the third largest country in terms of internet activity, wants certain types of content screened by technology companies. The India Telecommunications Minister, […]
Facebook Status Update Character Limit Now Much Higher
By Chris Crum at WebProNews Facebook announced that it is increasing the character limit on status updates. In a status update on theFacebook + Journalists page, the company wrote: “In September, we increased the character limit on status updates to 5,000 characters. Today, we’re announcing that you can now write posts with […]