Archive for June, 2011

Google Top Query Report Download Broken

2011/06/21

If you try to download the top query report from Google Webmaster Tools you will be out of luck.

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Why Google Panda Is More A Ranking Factor Than Algorithm Update

2011/06/21

With Google Panda Update 2.2 upon us, it’s worth revisiting what exactly Panda is and isn’t. Panda is a new ranking factor. Panda is not an entirely new overall ranking algorithm that’s employed by Google

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Official: Google Panda Update 2.2 Is Live

2011/06/21

Google has given us confirmation that they have ran an update to the Panda filter recently. We have been expecting the Panda 2.2 update based on news coming out of the SMX Advanced conference. Matt Cutts told SMX attendees that Panda 2.2 has been approved, hasn’t been rolled out yet, but that..

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Google’s 2011 Winter & Summer Solstice Logos

2011/06/21

Today is the first day of Summer season for those in the United States and many other countries, for others it is the first day of Winter. This is also known as the Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice. For the special day, Google has logos for both, depending on which Google portal you go to, Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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Google Quietly Launches Panda Update Version 2.2

2011/06/21

Webmasters and SEOs suspected the next wave of Google’s Panda update began hitting last week, with reports coming in of traffic drops, as well as some recoveries starting around June 16.

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The SEO Industry Needs Better Industry Associations

2011/06/21

Compared to other marketing practices like advertising and PR, the SEO industry is incredibly young. As an industry we are still finding our way, establishing best practice guidelines, maturing and, in some cases, still proving our worth as SEO experts, consultants and firms to the marketing “old guard.” One of the ways SEO has legitimized itself in the eyes of the old guard has been to form SEO industry associations, which were designed to promote solidarity and increase the credibility of their members. While some of these associations do a good job of providing education for their members, across the board they could be much better.

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Google Warns WordPress Site Owners To Update

2011/06/21

The Google Webmaster team is now notifying webmasters who are using an older version of the popular content management and blogging software WordPress. Apparently as early as last week, State of Search reports, users whose WordPress was out of dat…

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6 Essential PPC Landing Page Optimizations

2011/06/21

Posted by salario This post was originally in YOUmoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Your landing pages aren’t converting

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Google–British Library Partnership to Digitize 250,000 Books

2011/06/21

The Google Books project has scanned over 12 million books, largely thanks to the 40-plus libraries in its Library Projects Partner program. The most recent partner, the British Library, will allow for the digitization of 250,000 unique works.

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17 Tips for Tip-Based Content – How to Research, Scale & Promote

2011/06/21

Tips are the smallest documentable unit of “how-to” do something. Their presence – or absence – within a target market’s SERPs provide phenomenal opportunities for link strategists and other content marketers.

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