May 19, 2013

Your Rankings Drop Around May 15th? May Be Due To Link Networks Google Busted

Posted on 19. May, 2013 by in SE Round Table

Your Rankings Drop Around May 15th? May Be Due To Link Networks Google Busted

On May 15th, Google’s head of search spam, announced on Twitter that Google has taken “action on several thousand linksellers in a paid-link that passes PageRank network.” Google has done this time and time again, and we covered at least two previous cases of this. We do not know which link network – some are [...]

Mozscape’s Second May 2013 Index Is Live!

Posted on 19. May, 2013 by in SEOmoz

Mozscape’s Second May 2013 Index Is Live!

We’ve got new, delicious data for you! The second Mozscape index of the month is now live. Consume all the data with your favorite apps, including Open Site Explorer, the Mozbar, your PRO campaigns, and the Mozscape API. Below is the histogram with the crawl dates. Here are the metrics for this index: 90,641,413,665 (91 billion) [...]

Lessons from fiction that Can be Applied to Your Content Creation Efforts

Posted on 19. May, 2013 by in Search Engine Journal

Lessons from fiction that Can be Applied to Your Content Creation Efforts

I recently  had a chance to speak with a fiction writer and a memoir writer that sold the movie rights to her book. The writing advice I got from both of them was different than that I’ve received from professional bloggers and online marketers. They were both writers first and bloggers second and the result [...]

Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Fewer Results From Same Domain

Posted on 18. May, 2013 by in Search Engine Land

Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Fewer Results From Same Domain

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video about a new change coming to Google’s search results related to the diversity of the results being displayed. Matt said that Google is launching “soon” a new change that will make it less likely to see results from the same domain name, if you [...]

10 Essential WordPress Plugins to Improve SEO & Usability

Posted on 18. May, 2013 by in Search Engine Watch

10 Essential WordPress Plugins to Improve SEO & Usability

After you’ve installed WordPress and covered the basics of improving WordPress for SEO and the user experience, it’s time to go a bit deeper. Many great plugins are available to help your WordPress site when it comes to SEO, usability, and conversion. Here are 10 great plugins – most of which are available for free. [...]

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 17, 2013

Posted on 18. May, 2013 by in SE Round Table

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. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 17, 2013 Very busy week at Google, mostly because of I/O but a lot of other [...]

Mozscape API Wiki Update

Posted on 18. May, 2013 by in SEOmoz

Mozscape API Wiki Update

Greetings, Mozfolk! My name is Zach, and I’m a technical writer here at SEOmoz. We’ve consistently heard from you that Mozscape needs better documentation. I’m pleased to tell you: your requests have been granted! The Mozscape wiki just underwent a thorough update and review by developers, help teamsters, and testers. We incorporated your feedback from [...]

A Guide To Choosing A Competitive Title For Content Marketing

Posted on 18. May, 2013 by in Search Engine Journal

A Guide To Choosing A Competitive Title For Content Marketing

  Credit Shutterstock As we all know, content is king and it plays an important role in search engine optimization (SEO). Having good content on each of your pages is also will make your website stand out among the others. It is also what searchengines like and always recommend keeping in practice to provide a reliable [...]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 17, 2013

Posted on 17. May, 2013 by in Search Engine Land

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 17, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Less Results From Same Domain Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video about a new change coming to Google’s [...]

Bing Beams Up Star Trek Fans With Home Page Easter Egg, Klingon Translator

Posted on 17. May, 2013 by in Search Engine Watch

Bing Beams Up Star Trek Fans With Home Page Easter Egg, Klingon Translator

Bing’s search engine will let us go boldly where no man has gone before. In conjunction with the arrival of “Star Trek Into Darkness”, Bing has added a couple of features that fans should appreciate: a home page Easter egg when you search for [beam me up] and a new language option to Bing Translator: [...]