Unique, and original, content drives the Internet (so we’re constantly told), and we SEOs spend much of of our time producing and honing that content in the hopes of making the all mighty Google happy as a clam. Unfortunately, there has always been an ongoing problem with spammy websites lifting existing content verbatim, and passing it off as their own creation. These scraper sites not only devalue the original content they have stolen, but they can also impact the page rankings of the original page
There is no clear-cut answer to this question. In a recent video, even Matt Cutts seemed quite vague. He reiterated, more times than necessary, that having a large website or a lot of web pages does not directly affect the PageRank
There isn’t much I dislike about Web marketing, but dealing with clients whose expectations don’t align with reality has to top the list. While many might gripe and complain that the client “just doesn’t get it” (often a true statement), the client’s absence of… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article
Searchmetrics has released their SEO ranking factors for Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, today. Similar to their Google ranking factors, Searchmetrics analyzed 10,000 popular keywords and 300,000 websites appearing in the top 30 search results and looked at how various factors correlated… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
At SMX Advanced, I presented results from a study we had done that convinced me that links in shares from Google Plus and Facebook behave like traditional web-based links. My statements at SMX Advanced were later disputed by Matt Cutts during his keynote interview by Danny Sullivan, leading to a…
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said once again that Google’s +1 data has no direct impact on their web search ranking algorithm. Moz published a story today named Amazing Correlation Between Google +1s and Higher Search Rankings in which Matt Cutts responded to in Hacker News… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article
Late last year, many Raven Tools users were surprised to find that Search Engine ranking data had been removed. Under pressure from Google, Raven yanked the SERP data and focused the tool on helping SEOs and Internet Marketers with analytics tools.
One aspect of SEO reporting that’s relatively difficult for SEO professionals to explain to their clients is search engine rankings. Since rankings differ depending on myriad factors, a common question every SEO professional has heard countless times is “why do I see different rankings than what you’re reporting?” However, while top rankings have long been Author information Jayson DeMers Jayson DeMers is the founder & CEO of AudienceBloom , a Seattle-based SEO agency, as well as Crackerize.com , a lyrics-humor website. You can contact him on LinkedIn , Google+ , or by email
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts posted a video explaining why it is not uncommon to see a new page rank very well in Google early on, and then, that ranking declines over time. Matt explains that sometimes, Google has a hard time figuring out the original source of a new piece of… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
You may see a drop in rankings or traffic and immediately panic. Have I been Panda-slapped