Since time feels like a vacuum right now, this reminder may surprise you: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enacted over two years ago. Even though many marketers are familiar with the best practices and protections required for compliance, we’re starting to see fines roll in for companies who either are unaware of the […]
Google may be cracking down on sites that publish guest posts. There are several reports of unnatural outbound link penalties. Outbound Link Penalty An outbound link penalty is a manual action against a website. In this case the publisher relates that Google may have stopped PageRank from flowing from his website. Related: 10 Bad Links
You’ve heard so much about the importance of search engine optimization and what you can do to show up higher on a search engine results page (SERP) so you can get noticed by more and more potential customers and clients. But are you doing too much to increase your SEO? Many search engines like Google
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Podcast: Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | “Not that there are no myths out there, but I think a lot of these things, they stick around for a reason and it’s important that people feel free to ask something that might be a dumb question. And if you never ask a dumb question, then
While DA, DR, and PR offer a quick way to see backlink quality, there are other metrics that you should consider, for example, website traffic. The more traffic a website gets, the higher the chance that people will click on a backlink and visit your site. Google recognizes this, and that’s why a backlink from
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This week in search I posted the big monthly Google Webmaster report, so catch up there quickly. Bing announced a boat load of new search spam penalties that is rolling out. Google may have done a local search algorithm update this week. Google shared some details on what it is working on for health and
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Catch up on this week’s episode of Marketing O’Clock, part of the Search Engine Journal Podcast Network. Greg Finn and Christine “Shep” Zirnheld are covering the digital marketing news you’ve been talking about all week and the stories you may have missed. YouTube Placement for Shopping Ads Joy to the world! A new shopping ad
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Frédéric Dubut and Fili Wiese speaking at SMX Advanced in Seattle in June. This session was so popular they will be teaming up again to talk about the latest news with Bing and Google penalties and algorithms at SMX East in New York on Nov. 13. Frédéric Dubut (lead of the spam team at Bing)
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Google’s John Mueller answered a question about getting links too fast and if that would trigger a penalty. The rate at which links are acquired is known in the SEO community as link velocity. John Mueller’s answer provided insight into the topic of getting links too fast and whether that results in penalties. Background of
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Being an international conference speaker comes with a great advantage: one gets to discuss SEO with a lot of like-minded SEO professionals. In the course of many conversations I had at SMX London, some topics and questions come up more frequently. A lot of people are interested in issues around linking and wish to understand
