High quality directories help increase direct traffic and search rankings. They also provide long-term local SEO and consumer benefits. The post How to Use Relevant, Targeted Directories for Link Building by @annaleacrowe appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Here’s how to use guest posting to earn more links, brand awareness, SEO authority, website traffic, and leads. The post How to Do Guest Blogging for Natural Looking Link Building by @annaleacrowe appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.

As I covered at Search Engine Land, we got big industry news, the company Larry Kim founded in 2007 named WordStream has been acquired for $150 million. WordStream is a software service that helps digital marketers manage their Google AdWords campaigns..

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that GoogleBot currently will process the rel=canonical attribute on the initial fetch…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Google gave really only two SEO focused sessions at I/O this year, although, Google published all the sessions they thought SEOs and webmasters would care about…

Social media measurement platform Klout announced that it is shutting down at the end of this month. The post Klout Loses its Influence, Announces Shutdown on May 25 by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .