A lot has been made of the impact of social media and how that impacts SEO and eventually organic search rankings. The truth is they do go hand in hand it’s just that nobody understands exactly how. If they say they do they are probably willing to sell you some swamp
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Math SEO?
Math Geeks Unite, you will soon have a search engine to make it easy for you to search for specific references to a particular expression or equation. Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology have created an enhancement to traditional search engines that will make searching for mathematical expressions as easy as
What Will Google Look Like in the Future?
When Google was launched in 1998 it was not the first search engine but it brought about a revolutionary change to the way search engines delivered results and how search engines looked. Today almost every major search engine delivers results in about the same way and by the same technique
Mobile SEO Best Practices
There is no doubt online use by mobile devices is on the rise and will sooner rather than later be the way most people access the net. With that knowledge it should be abundantly clear to any business owner their website must be mobile friendly. The easiest path is to build
Is Google Going to Give It Up?
German justice minister Heiko Maas is asking Google to reveal their algorithm in the interests of consumer protection. Hey it doesn’t hurt to ask, right? Of course it is probably real safe to assume Google will not give up their algorithm after all it is the heartbeat of the company
Did You Know Yahoo Was Still a Search Engine?
Surprising as it may be to some people Yahoo still offers the ability to search for products, services, etc just like a regular search engine. What with all of the publicity about content, what direction Yahoo was going to take and the outrageous demands of their CEO on women it
The Google Porpoise Update or Not?
Panda, Penguin, who knows maybe Porpoise will be the name of the next big Google algorithm update or maybe there isn’t one coming at all!!!! SEO forums have been buzzing the past week over changes in rankings to sites they monitor. So much chatter has burned through the forums that
Does Schema Markup Improve Search Rankings?
Schema is a common set of identifiers (schemas) to help flag the various “entities” on a web page. This effort to structure Web data allows web developers to assign specific HTML tags to all types of things like products, recipes, reviews, locations, etc. and was agreed to 3 years ago
Rap Lyrics Penalized for Generalized Links that Sink Rankings Site takes a Spanking Enough Rhyming
So the lyric website Rap Genius got cute with their link building and paid the price by being penalized by Google. Not the first guys to do this and won’t be the last but the twist is how public they made their scheme known. Tip to the black hatters …
Optimizing a jpeg with File Properties
When talking SEO and optimizing an image the conversation is almost always about on-page optimization like using an alt tag, a title tag, schema markup and naming the image file name with keywords. Too often we forget to talk about optimizing an image and in this case a .jpeg within