Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

There is a type of blogging that is still popular and that may soon find itself on the outs with Google, if it hasn’t already. This type of blogging was popular in 2005. In fact, in 2005, just about everybody who was blogging was blogging this way, but it’s not the right way to blog. Bill Slawski probably agrees.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 18, 2016

“Build a time machine and go back to 2005 and start your blog then,” I say. However, a lot of other things have happened since 2005 that change the blogging/social media landscape. Google has changed its search algorithms thousands of times. Their eyes are hungry, their pens poised over notebooks.

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

has announced that today spells the death of a search tool that has been with us since 2005. Yes, you can use Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools, but neither one of them shares the same information on links that Yahoo! That was when Yahoo! actually tried to be a search engine. Site Explorer is no more.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Rebecca Maynes of Mediative lets us see the results of their 2014 study on how users view and interact with today’s Google SERPs. A similar study done in 2005 showed the “Golden Triangle” pattern, where readers started at the top left and read across the page, gradually reading less and less as they got lower.

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