Archive for April, 2011

Google Testing New Placements for URLs in SERPs?

2011/04/27

Google.co.uk appears to be testing out new placement locations for URLs on their search engine results pages. Click to read the rest of this post…

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Multinational SEO & Traffic Estimation: Converting from the SERPs

2011/04/27

It’s now well understood that maximising your conversion rate is critical to compete in the most competitive markets, but what’s often missed is how extending your conversion optimisation to the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) can influence your site conversion and increase the total available…

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YouTube Founders Buy Delicious; First Step To Taking On Google?

2011/04/27

Delicious, the popular social bookmarking site that Yahoo wanted to get rid of, has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Could it be a first step for the duo to jump into the search space? From the press release put out by AVOS, the company run by the duo Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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How PPC Can Improve Organic Search Conversions

2011/04/27

When formulating strategies and tactics for organic search, some of the most difficult questions that arise are related to conversion of organic search traffic. Are you targeting keywords that will bring not only traffic, but converting traffic, to your site? Is your page meta data optimized not…

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Google Crawl Rate Errors With Sitemap Indexing

2011/04/27

Over the past few days there have been reports from Webmasters that changing the crawl rate in Google Webmaster Tools has prevented Google from indexing their Sitemap files…

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Amazing Early Google Video Shows Boyish Larry & Sergey, Bored Employees Who Would Become Millionaires

2011/04/27

With management changes and numerous other efforts Google is trying to “get back to its startup roots.” So how about a video from when Google was really a startup. On the Xooglers blog (and below) is a video of a “TGIF meeting.” Taken in 1999 by Doug Edwards, who was then… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Rank For Highly Competitive Keywords

2011/04/27

Controlling the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS) of your targeted keywords depends largely on your on-page optimization.

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SEO Consultants: Stop Comparing SEO and PPC

2011/04/27

Many in the SEO community contend that pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is a waste of money.

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Updates to the SEOmoz Affiliate Program

2011/04/27

Posted by JoannaLord Disclaimer: This post doesn’t contain any awesome SEO tips, tactics, search engine revelations, or anything of that nature. Instead this post contains information on how to make some quick cash…don’t hate me, k?! Can you believe it’s been almost 5 months since we launched the affiliate program here at SEOmoz?! Crazy I know.

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Google Webmaster Tools Sitemaps Report Bug

2011/04/27

It seems like there was a “minor” bug impacting some of the reports for the Sitemaps indexing count. A Google Webmaster Help thread had a couple of webmasters come in asking why Google was reporting that all of a sudden, the index count was down to zero..

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