By TODD BAILEY at Search Engine Journal Google announced via Twitter that Panda Updates have ceased for 2011 and will resume after the New Year. Perhaps this is an early Holiday gift to webmasters that need to cultivate content and links on their existing webpages. The last update came in November and all have been […]
SEO Video: Live Q&A with Matt Cutts for 45 Minutes
By MELISSA FACH at Search Engine Journal It is the weekend and that means you might have 45 minutes to be entertained and get great tips from the fabulous Matt Cutts. This video is a recording of a live Q&A on September 21, 2011. If you haven’t seen it you may want […]
The Future of SEO: 5 Clear Facts You Should Know
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 […]
Future of local SEO market – Positive or Negative? : 6 Key Findings From The 2011 Local SEO Industry Survey
By Myles Anderson at SearchEngineLand If you ask any local SEO what the nature of our industry is like, you’ll get a range of answers from exciting & high-growth’ to ever changing’, full of opportunity’ and challenging’. The local online advertising market has seen strong growth over the last few […]
Google Panda 2.2 Update / Google Farmer 2.2 Update : Coming Soon
By Matt McGee at SearchEngineLand One of the bigger pieces of news — certainly for webmasters and SEOs — from our SMX Advanced conference this week is that Google will soon be releasing version 2.2 of the Panda algorithm update. Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed that during Tuesday’s keynote question-and-answer session with Danny Sullivan. Cutts […]