A common question I see is once I go through the effort of making my site mobile friendly for Google’s mobile friendly algorithm…

To grow organic rankings safely, links have to be earned on the basis of great content. But if the reality is that only 2 percent of followers share content — what hope do you truly have of earning links if your audience doesn’t share or amplify?

When faced with the seemingly insurmountable odds of information overload, 63GB per person per day in the USA, how can brands, let alone enterprising individuals stand out? Be the best answer wherever customers are looking. And how do you do that?

Referrals from existing clients are one of the best ways to gain new customers. So how can businesses encourage their customers to refer friends online? The post 12 Easy Ways to Encourage Referrals appeared first on Search Engine Journal

In this post I teach you 7 tools for building a happy community. These are tools that I’ve used to build a thriving community of passionate members.

Not waiting for the European Commission’s Statement of Objections (antitrust charges) to run its course, France is taking action to regulate Google’s search results and also compel revelation of its search algorithm. TechCrunch reported on a bill now working its way through the French… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Posted by CraigBradford In the near future, I think Google Now could tell you are pregnant or diagnose you with a medical condition before your doctor ever could. Humans are great at recognising patterns but only if we know we are creating them or where to look. Remember the Target story of how they knew a young girl was pregnant before she or her father did ?

One of the overlooked reasons startups fail is due to poor accounting.

Real time statistics of Google searches and its growth.

As Mobilegeddon approaches this Tuesday, April 21st, it’s important to remind everyone about the enormity of this update. Consider how many websites were affected the the Panda algorithm rolled out (12% of search queries) , and then again when Google released its Penguin algorithm update (3.1% of search queries). With that in mind, you can better put Google’s mobile friendly algorithm into perspective because it will affect more sites than either of those two algorithm updates