Pest Blogging vs Guest Blogging: A Word of Warning
Posted: September 22, 2012 Filed under: Blogging, Content | Tags: blogging, Google, Google Penguin, guest blogging, myblogguest, outsourcing, penguin, SEO, spam 3 Comments »
Beware of who you email when it comes to guest blogging
For sometime now I have been trying to guest blog as a means of not only gaining links but increasing brand awareness with relevant audiences. However, I have recently been a victim of bad practices at the hands of a “summer intern” and been faced with the very same types of links that I have been in the process of removing for clients that have suffered from the Google Penguin update.
Although the problem has now been resolved (I have managed to get all of the links removed) I have learnt a valuable lesson about guest blogging. See below for my thoughts:
SEO Infographics: A Week In Pictures #9
Posted: June 17, 2012 Filed under: SEO, SEO Infographics, Social Media | Tags: branding, facebook, Google, Google ranking factors, Online marketing, SEO experts, social media gurus, social sharing Leave a comment »
Unhappy Feet: 79 Top Penguin Tweets, Blogs and Articles
Posted: June 10, 2012 Filed under: Content, SEO, SEO Lists, SEO Reading List, Social Media | Tags: Algorithm Update, curated content, Google, Google Penguin Update, Google Update, penguin articles, penguin blogs, penguin posts, penguin tweets, SEO 3 Comments »
With so much talk and buzz around the Google Penguin update, it is fairly easy for an important article to pass you by.
So I have compiled a list of the top 80 penguin SEO tweets and articles. These are some of the best resources out there and really should read if you are trying to recover from Penguin and want to know the best way to proceed.
4 Ways to Protect Your Website from Future Penguin Updates | Search Engine People | Toronto
4 Ways to Protect Your Website from Future Penguin Updates http://t.co/Vg2srkYJ #penguin #SEO via @senginepeople by @NickStamoulis
From: @cpvr Carlos Andrade Jr
What The Penguin? – State of Search
Ranking in Google after Penguin. « Jonathan Leger – SEO And Internet Marketing Blog
SEO Infographics: A Week In Pictures #8
Posted: May 20, 2012 Filed under: SEO, SEO Infographics, Social Media, Social Sharing | Tags: Design, Facebook Ads, Facebook Brands, Google, Graphics, link building, links, Social Media Retailers, Social Media Tips, Social Signals, Women Leave a comment »
SEO Infographics: A Week in Pictures #6
Posted: May 13, 2012 Filed under: SEO, SEO Infographics, Social Media | Tags: Facebook App Development, Google, Google Revenue, Penguin Update, Psychology of Colour, Sharing Images, social media, Social Signals, Twitter 2012, Web Design, Websites Simplified Leave a comment »
SEO Infographics: A Week in Pictures #3
Posted: April 14, 2012 Filed under: Blogging, SEO, SEO Infographics, Social Media, Social Sharing | Tags: Android Market, blogging, Brand Posts, Facebook Likes, Google, linkedin, PPC, Ranking Factors, seo infographics, Social Data, Social Job Search, social media, Web Design Leave a comment »
The Google Dilema: Social or Search?
Posted: April 8, 2012 Filed under: SEO, Social Media | Tags: content discovery, facebook, Google, Google +1's, Google Bookmarks, linkedin, personalized searching, social media, social PPC, social sharing, Social vs Search, twitter Leave a comment »
Social or Search: The Future of Google
What is Google? Is it a search engine or a social network? That one question and the answer to it epitomises the future of Google.
I hate to hop on the band wagon and proclaim to know what Google should do (so many bloggers haven’t commented on this issue), however I have some interesting thoughts on the topic.
Google needs to think about what it is and what it is good at, only by doing this will they be able to compete with Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin; if that’s even what they should be doing.
SEO Infographics: A Week in Pictures #002
Posted: April 7, 2012 Filed under: Content, SEO, SEO Infographics, Social Media, Social Sharing | Tags: Crowd Sourcing, facebook, Google, Google Adwords, Job Search, link building, SEO, social media, twitter, Twitter Advertising Leave a comment »
Is Your Social Identity Complete?
Posted: March 25, 2012 Filed under: SEO Diagrams, Social Media | Tags: social media, twitter, facebook, Google, pinterest, social media identity, linkedin, flickr, tumblr, wordpress, stumbleupon, youtube, blogger, digg 2 Comments »Social identity is made up of parts, do you have every piece?
In the real world who we are is made up of parts. Parent, child, grandparent, aunt, friend, lover, wife, husband, employee, celebrity – the list goes on.
The same is true online, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google+ – these site help us to create our online identity. What’s more, if we are not on an important site then our identity is incomplete, it’s as if a jigsaw piece is missing.
So if you are just getting into social media then think about what you want to say about yourself and what impression you want to give to the world. If you don’t have a rounded identity then your reach will be low and people won’t take you seriously.
Link Placement: The Downfall of the Blogroll
Posted: March 8, 2012 | Author: Tudor Davies | Filed under: SEO, Social Sharing | Tags: banner links, blog comments, chasing rankings, directory listings, Google, link building, link credibility, link placement, link strategies, rankings, referred traffic, SEO | Leave a comment »Whenever anyone starts link building they are usually “dazzled” by page rank, mozrank and site age. But site relevance and link placement usually get ignored.
Apprentice link builders just go after homepage links and although these can be quite successful – they don’t shout “credibility”. Also homepage links, especially keyword heavy homepage links, are 99% of the time bought (and Matt Cutts knows this).
Given time, these type of links will be totally discredited or at least Google will construct an algorithm that can differentiate between bought and affiliate links. So what can you do?
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