There weren’t any Penguin updates this last month either, but Google Panda 3.9 happened on July 24, 2012. We didn’t see any impact to client rankings. But Google Panda updates should be a constant reminder: Have you added to your site lately? Have you added something of real value to your visitors, something that will […]
There weren’t any Penguin updates this month, but a couple of Panda updates to “refresh”. Google makes these updates and claims 1% of queries are affected. It sounds small, but is actually billions of queries. Google has in the past used a team of Quality Raters to examine certain search engine results pages, and has […]
Many webmasters and advertisers still rely on Google pagerank as an important metric to determine value of their URLs, and may have noticed that their 3rd party tools are not functioning. Dave Naylor, who runs a leading UK SEO Agency, informs that the lookup URL has merely changed from: http://toolbarqueries.google.com/search?client=navclient-auto&features=Rank&ch=8f3b58e04&q=info:www.hyperdogmedia.com to http://toolbarqueries.google.com/tbr?client=navclient-auto&features=Rank&ch=8f3b58e04&q=info:www.hyperdogmedia.com Hopefully you see […]
Yahoo advertisers received an email outlining a few more terms regarding the upcoming transition to the Microsoft Advertising adCenter platform. Some quick points: 1. A Tab will show up in “YSM later this month”, so be sure to login and look around. 2. Yours ads can server in adCenter right away when you transition. 3. […]
The Denver Search Engine Optimization Meetup is launching 2010 with a bang. The meetup has grown substantially over the last two years, and is collaborating with two other meetups for the January 21, 1010 event. The Denver SEMPO Meetup is hosting a presentation from Todd Barrs of Spyglass, LLC (a local Conversion Optimization Consultant). This […]
After a major website redesign, it’s not uncommon for page locations and even page extensions to change. Maybe you’ve switched web development languages, or changed your website’s structure into a SEO friendly themed set of silos. Whatever the reason page locations have changed, it’s vital that the old page locations are 301 redirected to the […]
Ever launch a video to the sound of crickets chirping? Video SEO is an emerging set of best practices to help videos get found, understood, and popularized across the internet. Here are 9 quick tips to improve your Video SEO: 1. Use an high quality embedded player like wimpywasp.com’s player. Avoid embedding youtube’s player in […]
Denver SEO Meetup and the Colorado working group of SEMPO have seen tremendous growth in the last year. In the ever developing world of search marketing, the meetups have become excellent resources for search marketing professionals looking to network – as well as the professional development opportunities provided by SEMPO’s excellent speakers. Last week, our […]
Google loves blogs. What is it about blogs that Google loves so very much? We’ve pinpointed 13 reasons why Google may give – or appear to give – sites with blogs a little extra boost in rankings. Of course, the list is broken down into our framework of looking at good quality sites as being […]
Flash is less of a problem for search engines, but there are still caveats. Flash’s problems can be easily mitigated by offering footer links, and regular html text content on any pages with flash. It’s only an issue when no alternative content or navigation is offered. Here’s the longer story: Flash’s problems depend on the […]
