Influence of Keywords in SEO

Keyword research and targeting are critical first steps in any SEO campaign. Traffic-driving keywords that you bucket into high-level keyword groups. Then, you map those keyword...

Guest Blogging in 2014

Matt Cutts        ✔ @mattcutts Follow New blog post: The decay and fall of guest blogging http://goo.gl/fb/m7IHP If you're...

SEO Predictions for 2014

Scoring My 2013 Predictions: We'll get confirmation that steering anchor text in links you get is bad. Score a full point for this one. Google now discusses this in their...

What's New With Google+ In Short

It was hard to miss the news that Google announced yesterday around Google+. If you did and you really don't have time to sift through everything, Google's Aygul...

Google May Charge Fees For Google+ Custom URLs

One of the other big announcements was that Google is offering vanity URLs within Google+ for virtually everyone. But if you read the terms of service, Google says for...

Google Skeleton

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Search Engine Land Wins Best Search Blog At US Search Awards

It has been a while since there have been a reputable place offering "Awards" in the search community. Now, we have the US Search Awards backed by PubCon, Majestic SEO,...

Google's 100 Search Results Per Page Breaks

Google has confirmed the reports of a bug where configuring your search preferences to non-instant results, set to show 100 search results on a page, stopped working....

Disavow File May Not Be Accepted

If you use a disavow file to remove links, Google may not process them if they don't see you making a serious manual attempt at removing those links.        ...

Google Bolding Related Words In Search Snippets - Not Titles

I searched for "gone" but Google highlighted the word "dropped" in the snippet. Not in the title, Google did not bold the word "Drops" in the title tag. They did bold the word "dropped"...