Periodic Table of SEO Elements

June 26, 2011

Here are the elements of SEO that everyone needs to know and understand to get a web site indexed fully, ranked well and to avoid penalties. This infographic distills 200 plus signals down to the following nine main elements, each with sub-elements and strength ratings of +3 (strongest positive factor) +2, +1 and continuing penalties [...]

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Dilbert Warns Against Using Paid Text Links for SEO

June 24, 2011

Dilbert Warned us Against Using Paid Text Links for SEO value but breaks the news to his boss that they have been penalized for paid linking. Google found out that we use fake links to boost our search rank Now our website only shows up when someone enters the search string ‘dung for brains’ They [...]

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Dilbert Black Hat SEO Warning

June 23, 2011

Dilbert does his best to warn of the dangers of unethical SEO, telling his boss he’s an idiot in the process. I think I’m buying the coffee mug for this one. I want you to use “black hat” methods to raise our website ranking on search engines What do you like best about that idea [...]

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Google Chrome Speeds up Your Site from Search Results

June 15, 2011

Not satisfied to simply speed up their own site – Google is now speeding up yours (if it’s the first result) from search results pages when you use the Chrome browser. They’ll be making the technology open source when it is released – so that it will be available from all browsers. Here’s a demo [...]

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Google Social Search – Tweets & Likes

February 18, 2011

Google Showing Tweets & Social Media in Search Results announced today – but rolling out slowly. I’m not given the option to opt-in as of this writing, the day of the announcement by Google. This is from the official Google blog, making the announcement today in a post titled “An update to Google Social Search“ [...]

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Video Sitemaps Best Practices from Google Webmaster Tools

December 28, 2010

Google Video Sitemaps tutorial from Mark Robertson of ReelSEO in video form featuring Google video Product Manager Nelson Lee and Google Partner Rep Amy MacIsaac discussing details of best practices and point out the importance of required elements including video:loc and video:player_loc. There are a list of questions (below) that are addressed in Q&A Below [...]

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Social Media Links as Ranking Factors

December 27, 2010

Matt Cutts on Twitter & Facebook social links as ranking factors. Here he confirms that Google looks at social signals as a ranking factor, but that those signals are weak and may only apply to “Real Time” results for now. It’s become clear that social links lead to crawler activity, but as a ranking factor, [...]

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Google Zeitgeist 2010 Top Searches

December 13, 2010

Mike Valentine Google took the opportunity to highlight their own technology and products this year as the Google Zeitgeist video shows via Google products – gmail, Google News, Google Instant, YouTube and others what we searched most frequently in 2010 by prominently featuring each in the 2010 Zeitgeist Video below. I’d like to see a [...]

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Real Time Search Home Page

August 30, 2010

Google toyed with some experimental real-time display in standard search over the past six months – but have now given real-time search a home page. Here’s a screen shot. They appear to have made it incredibly powerful and flexible, with timeline, filter by location and other interesting tools. Expect to hear a lot of chatter [...]

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