Interest Rates 10th August 2012 2:40 PM
retire?? who would make my coffee?
Postsretire?? who would make my coffee? Need help for Link Building 10th August 2012 2:37 PM “And work on some edu and gov sites also and don't forget links from quality based no follow sites matters alot” I read somewhere yesterday (can't for life of me find the link) that edu and gov links had now been included in the link algo. Although they won't do you any harm, due to the fact these have now been spammed, they have lost some of their kudos. It's more about relevance, allegedly, (I'm a bit more cynical here) if your site has a bunch of unrelated .gov .edu etc links, then you won't gain anything from them. What is gauged as related I guess is the next debate  Is a link from a govt site pointing to our business directory relevant? Or any more/less relevant than a link to an office supplies site? A massage parlour I can understand, but away from the obvious, who decides relevance? Google Author - showcase your content round the web 10th August 2012 2:29 PM Done some trawling around different SEO forums and threads, and without finding any concrete proof, the consensus seems to be that Google has been rolling out rich snippet algorithms from May time (2012), and review stars (hreview markup) disappeared from home pages around June time. Coincidently around the time Google dumped the old Places listings into Google local, and redesigned their own review engine... hmmm... Rich snippet stars are alive and well on other pages, they just seem to have culled them on home pages, no doubt to abuse Shame because it looked great, worked well and the reviews were genuine... Unlike some of the site's I've seen with 2500+ 5 star reviews, which you can't see! So have now replaced our homepage stars with the author tag. No doubt this will be culled shortly... Page ranks in other than Google 10th August 2012 2:17 PM Did a post back in July 2010 that identified differences between Bing and Google. Main crux seemed to be optimise for Google, and all else will be fine, but at the time there were subtle differences between Bing and Google. I wonder how it stacks up in mid 2012, and if their algo's have moved closer together? “On Page SEO eg H1 tags, canonical issues (does your site show as www and non www address) Bings algorythm seems to weigh heavily compared to Google in onsite factors. In otherwords, Google is more forgiving if your onsite SEO has a few holes in it. Domain Profile eg domain age, number of indexed pages, server location/geographic location These factors don't appear to be as important with Bing as they are with Google. Keywords in Domain Name Using targeted keywords in your domain names offers some strong advantages in Bing SEO compared to Google. Link Analysis: Comparison of Off-site Related Factors Google is known to rely strongly on link analysis and quality of links To rank in Bing, you need more links using the targeted keywords in anchor text. The more exact, the greater will be the impact. You will need to concentrate on getting a high percentage of links that contain the targeted keywords in the anchor text. http://www.mylocalforums.com/bing-topics/1357-optimising-your-website-bing.html” Strength of Google+ Backlinks? 10th August 2012 2:01 PM “...do you think the size of your G+ following will affect the strength of the links?” From a purely layman speculation point of view, I doubt it because it's something that can (and is) be gamed and manipulated. I think what will become more important in the future (if not already) is the number of g+ profiles that have a link back to your site, (ie Other profiles, contributor to, links etc). This is much harder to game, and is good indicator of a sites/page/resources popularity. If say 50 people have taken it on themselves to point their g+ profiles at your site, then that has to be a significant factor in either the serps and/or Google local results. Plus it would be pretty easy to automate an algo to pick up spammy yoda profiles. Feel free to link your G+ profile back to the forum, and we shall watch the results  Google Author - showcase your content round the web 10th August 2012 11:46 AM Now that's the truth, or are you manipulating me?  Strength of Google+ Backlinks? 10th August 2012 11:41 AM “. For an example search google for "roger's traffic generation" and you will see my smiley face ”Right, now we know who you are, go and update your avatar Google Author - showcase your content round the web 10th August 2012 11:27 AM “Great post Steve, This can also be implemented using rich snippets for ecommerce sites, where a product image would be displayed (similar to Google shopping).” Clever, didn't realise you could use product images as well Took us 12 months to originally get the review stars approved and show up in google, but whole process seems much quicker now. Author pics can show up in hours. Noticed the review stars keep disappearing off one of our sites, and do worry if we have too much mark up on the pages. Plus review stars are no longer shown on home pages  I think this will be the next spam battleground and the golden age of rich snippets has now passed us by Was great while it lasted though! Mobile ecommerce is booming in Africa 9th August 2012 3:15 PM Did you see the stats released from Google ref Olympic searches? "European countries showed especially high mobile search volume with most countries having one-third or more of their Olympics-related searches occurring on a tablet or smartphone. In some European countries this number was substantially higher - in the UK, 46% of Olympics searches happened on mobile. In Asia, South Korea (36%) and Australia (45%) saw mobile search volume spikes, while Japan (55%) was at the front of the pack." Going for Mobile Gold: 10x increase in Olympics mobile searches globally - Google Mobile Ads Blog Now they put this some of this down to multi screen surfing, ie watching your TV while getting more info from your smart phone or tablet, but still interesting stuff. The mobile market is definitely in full growth, so if you are reliant on web traffic, then it's wakeup time if your site isn't mobile friendly! Only 3 type of links - good | bad | ignored... 9th August 2012 3:06 PM Superb article from Search Engine Land and a must read for anybody confused by the whole link building thing, especially in the current Google turbulent world.. First, there are really three types of links: Links that help SEO Links that hurt SEO Links search engines ignore What Everyone Needs To Know About Good, Bad & Bland Links |
