Clients
Another manual penalty revoked
I think this makes it 7 out of 7 for my clients with Google manual penalties. Some I’ve gotten out in 1 request, a bunch took 2, and one took 7 rounds.
Local Search
Google Local Search Puts the K in Kwality
Discovered today: when you’re looking at the maps results for a Google search, and click on one of the listings to expand it (here, I’m clicking on the result for J. Rollins Art of Framing):
what ACTUALLY expands is the listing above it:
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Local Search
Setting your city in Google–only works for Maps now
It USED to be that when you set your location via Search Tools in Google, it would control where Google thought you were searching from, affecting the organic/local universal results and the maps results (yeah, the AdWords results were ALWAYS messed up on this, and still are).
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My Articles
Moz Whiteboard Friday: Panda Optimization
I filmed this about 2 weeks ago while at MozCon in Seattle. Full transcription, and a lively discussion in the comments is here.
Technical SEO
New Company Info Pulldown in Google SERPs
Google is now showing a little pulldown to the right of the website URL in their search results. When you click the pulldown, you get a synopsis of the company or organization.
Internet marketing
Tips on Amplifying the Reach of Social Media
Ben Lloyd and Brian Rauschenbach of Add3 did this great Whiteboard Friday at Moz, talking about an assortment of tips on how to take a piece of content and get the most results from it in your social media channels: Read more
Technical SEO
Google testing a hundred results per page
While doing keyword research for a client, I spotted a longer than usual set of results. REALLY longer. So I counted them. 100 organic results for “vinyl fencing”. Redid the search, back to the usual 10. Here’s the screenshot of Read more
Internet marketing
Q&A with RynekDomen.pl: the State of SEO
Przemyslaw Cwik from the Polish website RynekDomen.pl (which focuses on the domain name business) interviewed me in this Q&A session regarding domains and the state of SEO today.
Technical SEO
On-Page Optimization to Overcome Massive Link Profile Deficits
This is the presentation I did at SEMpdx on March 11, 2014, on how good optimization on-page can be more important than a massive backlink profile. (more…)
Technical SEO
SEMpdx Presentation on Google’s Panda Algorithm
Presentation on Google’s Panda algo from SEMpdx monthly education event, held October 9 2012. (more…)