Tuesday 26 November 2013

Google's Eric Schmidt Tells iPhone Users How to Switch to Android

What do you get the Apple fanboi who has everything? If you're Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, the answer is an Android phone.

The recommendation came as part of a rare and lengthy Google+ post by Schmidt over the weekend giving the Apple community a comprehensive guide on to how to flee to his company's products.

"The latest high-end phones have better screens, are faster, and have a much more intuitive interface," Schmidt wrote. "They are a great Christmas present to an iPhone user!"

He then gave iPhone users instructions on how to transfer data.

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Thursday 21 November 2013

Create Unique Meta Descriptions for Your Most Important Pages

If you've ever skipped over filling out a meta description tag for a web page, or gotten lazy and simply use the same meta description for every single page on the site, you aren't alone.

It's no secret that meta tags are no longer as important as they were about 10 years ago, and many people have gotten lazy about doing them. But how does that impact things with Google?

Should you have an individual meta description tag for every single webpage you create? This is the topic that Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts tackled in the latest webmaster help video.

"The way I think of it is you can either have a unique meta tag description, or you can choose to have no meta tag description, but I wouldn't have duplicate meta tag descriptions," Cutts said.

Cutts also reminded us that Google does check meta description tags and will provide warnings about them in your Webmaster Tools console.

Read More : Matt Cutts: Create Unique Meta Descriptions for Your Most Important Pages

Wednesday 20 November 2013

Google's Matt Cutts: Responsive Design Won't Hurt Your SEO

With mobile traffic gaining more market share over the past few years, it's more important than ever for websites to have a mobile version of their webpage, a specific version tailored to smaller screens and fast load time. And with it has come a wider adoption of using responsive design for mobile users versus the traditional mobile sites.

In the eyes of Google, does response design or traditional mobile design leverage a higher SEO value? Fortunately, Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts tackled this issue in a recent webmaster help video.

Responsive Design vs. a Mobile Site

First, a lot of people have questions about what exactly is a responsive design. It is definitely something that's newer, and many webmasters still don't have a lot of experience designing with it. However, responsive design quickly becoming the go-to format and is gaining exponential popularity because of the way it scales for any type of screen size, whether it's a desktop or an iPhone.

"Responsive design just means that the page works totally fine whether you access for site URL with a desktop browser or whether you access that URL with mobile browser," Cutts said. "Things will rescale, the page size will be taken into account."

Read More : Google's Matt Cutts: Responsive Design Won't Hurt Your SEO

Tuesday 19 November 2013

3 Best Ways To Use Facebook Groups For Business

We hear a lot about Facebook Pages for business brands. Many business brands develop and nurture a Facebook Page. They assure quality content and incentives for fans.

Only occasionally we hear about brands empowering their employees and/or associates to engage socially as catalysts for the brand. But we have not heard as much about the use of Facebook Groups for business.

Yes, it is another presence to maintain. At the same time a Facebook Group could be the social tool to other social media marketing efforts and actually make things easier on several fronts.


Monday 18 November 2013

Help with SEO when just getting started

This ShoeMoney Question was sent in by Leroy from Atlanta, Georgia. Because Leroy’s question was chosen he will receive a ShoeMoney Shirt and a signed copy of my best selling book “Nothing’s Changed but my Change – The ShoeMoney Story”. To submit your question just email questions@shoemoney.com and if yours is chosen we will ship you out a shirt and book at our expense anywhere in the world

In general SEO (search engine optimization to rank where you organically are not) is like a mystical thing. That is why there is so much money in providing these services. Everyone thinks they know what Google is doing but any theories they have are all bullshit. You really can only go off of your personal experience. The funny thing is in the Google guidelines they specifically state that if you try to make your site rank higher than it naturally should then that is in violation of their guidelines and you could be penalized for it.

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Friday 15 November 2013

Top 20 Local Search Ranking Factors: An Illustrated Guide



First published in 2008 by David Mihm, the Local Search Ranking Factors survey of Local SEOs around the globe has become a high point in the year in local search. If you eagerly await this yearly report and comb through it for new insight, then the information in this guide may not come as news to you. I wrote this guide for marketers who are new to the field of local SEO and for local business owners who are flying solo in their efforts to market their companies on the web.

Local Search Ranking Factors 2013 identified 83 foundational ranking factors. This guide takes the top 20 most important factors and offers a succinct, illustrated example of each.
By reading this guide, you will understand both the lingo and the concept of each local search ranking factor. Use this information and you will be on the road to promoting local businesses on the web from a firm and educated foundation. Sound good? Start reading!

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Wednesday 13 November 2013

When Commenting On Blog Posts, Try To Use Your Real Name

In a recent video published by Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts talks about are blog comments with links spam?

In short, most of the time, commenting and leaving links to your site or resources is not directly spam but like anything, it can be abused.

Matt offers some tips on how to make sure your comments are not considered spam by Google or the site you are leaving it on:

(1) Use your real name when commenting. When you use a company name or anchor text you want to rank for, it makes it look like you are leaving the comment for commercial marketing purposes and thus may look spammy.

(2) If your primary link building strategy is about leaving links in blog post comments and it shows that a majority of your links come from blog comments, then that might raise a red flag.

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Tuesday 12 November 2013

22 Free Social Media And SEO Tools That Will Make Your Life Easier

Alongside the big toys such as MajesticSEO, LinkRisk and Screaming Frog there are several lesser known but super useful web tools and extensions that will make your digital marketing life easier. Of course, they won’t do the job for you but they will certainly help you do it faster and in a more efficient way.
I’ve put together a list of my favourite Tools and Extensions that I seriously couldn’t live without. So whether you work in-house, for a digital agency or as a consultant, these tools can really help give you more time to focus on the serious stuff. I hope you will find them useful!

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Monday 11 November 2013

7 NEW SEO Tips for this Month (Google Is Changing)

Yes Google is always changing so we must be on top of it all! To keep you informed about ongoing changes me and my team have put together a series of posts that will seriously help you with your SEO efforts, My favourite post is "5 New Rules of SEO"

Please email reply or comment on the posts to let me know what you think.

1. Google Places (Google+ Local) 5 SEO Tips for Small Businesses

2. Using Citations to Improve Local SEO

3. 5 Tips to Recover from Panda Algorithm Penalty

4. How Do I Get My Website to the Top of Google?

5. How To Double Your Profit and Triple Your Traffic using SEO

6. 5 New Rules of SEO

7. What You Need to Know About ‘Manipulative Links’

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How excess of online content can badly affect your online SEO


No doubt Content is King. To make your SEO plan foolproof, content does play a big role in it. But just how much the king content should really get any king-size? Is there a thin line between an optimally SEOed content and one that is excessively stuffed? When and where does one draw that line?
Most SEO analysts go by the “more is more” thumb rule. Where in reality, if the experts of the SEO field are to be believed, search engine optimization is better achieved with precise brief and a copy that is succinct. The key is in going rather objective than subjective. But objective in a way that completely suffices the purpose of your SEO plan.

The dynamics of online searching are continually changing. More and more reforms are being sought in into the online search engines to ensure authentic, spam-free search results when a user types in for a keyword or phrase. The search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. are continually upgrading their mechanisms to boost their performance and deliver the best of credible results to the online surfer or researcher.
Of course, if the copy on your webpage is redundant, old and doesn’t exactly correspond to the recent developments of that particular field, search engines will definitely discard it or rank it lower in the search results pages. Hence, it is a good SEO practice to constantly update the content part of your page. In a similar fashion, beating around the bush won’t help you either, because when a reader lands on your page he or she will only be disappointed to know that your page does quite offer the relevant information it should. A reader-specific content approach is obligatory.

When the spiders crawl on your webpage and find excess of information that isn’t really pertaining to the intent of page, they simply move on. Move on to neglect your page and do not rank it on the related search result.

When the bots heed less to your copy you tend to rank lower, resulting in poor or nil click-through-rates (CTR). No matter how tempting it may sound to overstuff your page copy with all the relevant keywords, but that will only degrade your status with the search engine bots. Search engine like Google, doesn’t at all entertain a submission that is densely keyword populated. As a result your webpage submission will be discarded aside. So if you put two-and-two together, what you infer is that anything beyond the required material is potentially hazardous to your site’s ranking. Too much of content, can become misleading for the readers as well as the search engine crawlers.

A leading SEO company toronto suggests that less is more while drafting your online SEO content. Short, precise and concise material makes things equally intelligible for the readers as well as the search engine algorithms. Of course, your webpage’s usability, overall site’s navigability are also the standing points in discerning your webpage’s ranking.

Sunday 10 November 2013

SEO Makeover for 2014: A Practical Guide for Businesses

SEO is about attracting non-paid search traffic to your website. The idea is that a person searches the Web using Bing or Google, etc. and your site comes up in the non-paid search results. To that end, it’s important to make sure your website is easily understood by both people and machines.

           People = your target market, your ideal website visitors.
           Machines = search engines like Google and Bing.

It’s a problem if your website confuses people and they can’t easily find what they’re looking for. Or they can’t smoothly accomplish the tasks they want to complete (or you want them to complete).

But did you know it’s also a problem if your website confounds machines? It’s common for websites to have technical roadblocks that create problems for machines trying to understand or even find pages on your website.

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Friday 8 November 2013

Social Media Sites Increase their Influence in the Search World

If your marketing strategy still doesn’t include a social media angle, the time to start looking to incorporate one is now. Search through Google and other search engines still drives a large percentage of traffic to websites, proper SEO practices are important. The emerging trend amongst the newest internet users – the ones who will have buying power soon – is using social media sites to discover new websites.

How social media is replacing search

To give a real life example, I frequently log into my Facebook and Twitter accounts to find interesting stories to read. You may say that I’m half interested in the lives of my friends and contacts, and the other half of me is interested in the content, and websites, that they are sharing with me in my feeds.
To give you more solid numbers than my own approximation, a study from Forrester found that 50% of internet users ages 18 to 23 used social networks as their primary means of discovering websites. If your target age range is higher than that it is no reason to ignore this stat as 43% of users ages 24 to 32 also used social media as their go to source for finding websites and content online.

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Thursday 7 November 2013

SEO Tools that should be used for your Business

In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, Brian McDowell of Conductor shares some recommendations for SEO tools that your business should be using.

If your businesses is managing its SEO in-house there are tools available to do the job more efficiently. With the sheer number of tools available it’s easy to get overwhelmed, which may leave you unsure of where to start.

Brian will help you cut through the noise by providing recommendations of tools that can help you get the most out of your SEO efforts.

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Wednesday 6 November 2013

Basic PPC Tips described by pubcon 2013

Pubcon in Las Vegas is one of the most fun conferences you can attend. Obviously there are the myriad entertainment options in Las Vegas and all the awesome after-hours networking events, but I’ll focus on the main reason I was there; the conference itself.

Pubcon Day 1

The first session I attended was by Mona Elesseily and she was talking about default settings in AdWords that you need to change. My favorites were these:
  • Ad rotation – Set to rotate indefinitely
  • Mobile is NOT desktop – Bid down mobile appropriately. Write mobile specific ads
  • Keyword matching – Do not include close variants
During a slow session time I went down to the live review room and had Kate Morris, Steve Hammer & Kate O’Neill look at a campaign I’m running right now. Many of their observations were in accordance with what we’re currently planning to do, but as I answered a few questions about the offer, they pointed out a benefit that I had been overlooking.

Takeaway: Get another set of eyes on your accounts & campaigns.

Hardcore PPC Tactics was the best PPC session of the conference, which is expected when you’ve got Brad Geddes, John Ellis & David Szetela on the same panel.

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Sunday 3 November 2013

Jim Boykin explains link Building in a Penguin Age

It is no secret that link building times have changed. Google doesn’t want to be gamed–Google watches what SEOs are doing and then they filter and penalize trends for ranking that don’t truly benefit the user. If you rank for a commercial phrase, you are more likely to be above the radar, and the more valuable the phrase is, the more above the radar you are. Even today, there are plenty of practices that SEOs are employing that can result in ranking problems and site penalties. Google is connecting sources, influencers and industries–are your goals in line with Google’s?

Read More : http://www.pubcon.com/link-building-in-a-penguin-age-jim-boykin

Friday 1 November 2013

Google Officially Rolls Out Vanity URLs for Google+ Profiles

In a move that has been anticipated for months now, Google has finally pulled the trigger on rolling out vanity URLs to Google+ user profiles. Previously, user profiles on Google+ included a long variation of random numbers in the URL that has detracted a bit from the personal feel that social networks like Twitter took advantage of a while ago.

Read More : http://www.location3.com/google-officially-rolls-out-vanity-urls-for-google-profiles/

Custom URLs were only available to verified accounts owned by celebrities and brands now regular users can now claim their own custom URL for public use.Google lags behind its competitors in the social networking space, namely Facebook and Twitter in terms of popularity and engagement. However, what it lacks in popularity it makes up for in terms of integration with Google services, such as Gmail and Google Search. Still, its core social networking service is not as customizable as the likes of Facebook. Even profile URLs came in long numeric form — hardly easy for anyone to memorize or share.

Read More : http://vr-zone.com/articles/google-rolls-vanity-urls-google-users/62296.html