Kikolani

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Part III: 40 Top Keyword Research Posts of 2011 – 40 of the top posts on keyword research tools, strategies, and optimization. Search Engine Marketing vs. Social Media Marketing: The Showdown – How search engine marketing beats social media (and vice versa) and why you should be investing into both.

Analytics 118

Analytics Research Real Estate Google 118

Idaconcpts

JUNE 14, 2011

Mainly used for professional networking, the company reported more than 100 million registered users as of March 2011. As opposed to searching for people on larger web engines, LinkedIn allows you to conduct a concise and organized search that focuses on the business information that you want and need.

LinkedIn 144

LinkedIn Groups Groups Directory 144

Kikolani

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Search Engines / SEO. Twitter Quietly Launches A User Directory – You may not have noticed the link, but it’s there in the footer of Twitter’s home page if you’re logged out: “Directory.” Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, 2011 Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals.

Mashup 124

Mashup Resources Directory Remix 124

Writtent Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The most recent Hummingbird update to Google’s search algorithm was a final nail in the coffin of an industry that had been in decline since the major Panda update in 2011 that affected as many as 30% of all search results. image credit: Search Engine Watch. Submitting Content to Article Directories. In-Depth Results.

SEO 95

SEO Content Marketing Press Release 95

ProBlogger

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Many people have been affected by the chain of Google Panda updates which began to roll out in February 2011. Google has said numerous times that their mission has always been to be the best search engine providing users with solutions to everyday problems, questions, references, etc. Diversity In “Everything” Is Good.

Google 55

Google Strategy Directory Forums 55

Writtent Blog

MAY 20, 2014

Example: one of my Internet marketing buddies’ content marketing campaign was built heavily around article directory submissions (think Ezine Articles ). Rand Fishkin of Moz talked about it in his interview with Search Engine Watch as well. His traffic continues to decrease daily. Brand Journalists Are The New Content Marketers.

Trends 95

Trends Content Marketing Curation 95

Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 20, 2011

I’d rather see you start a blog or list your website in local directories. I like what Matt McGee had to say about NARs blog comment advice: Commenting on blogs can help with exposure, but it’s not a “campaign” and isn’t likely to make a search engine think your site is trustworthy, either. As you know, I use it.

Real Estate 79

Real Estate SEO Case Study Small Business 79

ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2012

In February of 2011, Google released the Panda update that took rankings away from websites with low-quality content and sites with more advertising than content. paid links (with the exception of those from directories). Submit your blog to blog directories. Google’s Panda update.

Blogger 42

Blogger Tools Tips Hubpages 42

ProBlogger

APRIL 17, 2013

The volume of podcasts has remained fairly steady since 2011 (source ). Publishing your Podcast – All about creating an RSS feed and submitting your podcast to iTunes and the other directories. Dimensions change from time to time, according to the directory your listing in. Planning Your Podcast. This is the fun stuff!

Directory 54

Directory URL RSS Marketing 54

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 16, 2012

Top 10 Blog Directories 2011 by SEO Wizardry. Writing that “Blog Directories add an important element to your web site traffic generation and search engine optimization programs,” Peter Hollier lists and links the top 10 blog directories along with their Alexa ranks.

Tools 193

Tools Tips Directory SEO 193

Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 2, 2011

Article directories? Search engines have traditionally given them a nod of approval, pretty much across the board. And for the record, EzineArticles was not the only article directory affected by this algorithm change. It is the most popular article directory online. Google, puh-lease! Why is this upsetting?

Small Business 164

Small Business Google Directory Hubpages 164

Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

According to Small Business Trends and HubSpot , the percentage of businesses with blogs has increased from less than half in 2009 to nearly two out of three in 2011. The primary advantage of this approach is that all of the SEO value of external links accrues to the corporate site, giving it more authority in the eyes of the search engines.

WordPress 185

WordPress Hubspot URL Widget 185

Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

What worked in 2011 may or may not be as effective in 2012. It gives you enough room to be meaty and to demonstrate to search engines that you have worthwhile content on your blog. I started two paid directories, one for dofollow blogs and the other for infographics. Search Engine Optimization.

Questions 167

Questions Adsense Marketing SEO 167

SocMed Sean

APRIL 12, 2015

There’s a history of them doing this, but Google stopped including tweets in their index around 2011. You might head over to your friendly search engine (aka Google.com) and type in a query like: Social Media Budget cartoon If you were to conduct this search today, you’d likely see my social media budget blog post (yeah!)

Google 100

Google Hubspot Content SEO 100

Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Directory submissions can be performed automatically in a spammy way, too, but then you have the Best of The Web directory, the Yahoo directory and Dmoz which, after all this time, Google still seem to give credit for having a mention there. Here’s what he said back in 2011 on that post.

Directory 85

Directory SEO Guidelines Google 85

Kikolani

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Alice is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, and co-author of the book Let’s Panic About Babies (due out in March 2011). She is co-authoring a Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies book scheduled to be released in March 2011, and is a regular author at Social Media Examiner. Follow her @aliventures on Twitter.

Blogger 168

Blogger SEO Consultant WordPress 168

Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

7 creative ways to get customer testimonials – between Facebook, LinkedIn, local search directories, and other sources, you’ve probably got a ton of them! Search Engines / SEO. Top 50 social media blogs of 2011 – a great list of blogs to follow for your social media marketing needs!

Mashup 137

Mashup Resources Adsense RSS 137

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

The Perfect Social Media Measurement Plan (Search Engine Land): Brian Massey illustrates a system that gives reliable conversion data to a spreadsheet automatically. 100+ SMB Blogging Ideas to Kick Start … 2011? Inc’s article has a lot of good small ideas you can use to make social media more effective in business.

Marketing 279

Marketing Affiliate marketing Small Business SEO 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

Today, search engines answer the questions that phone books needed to solve a decade and a half ago. As a German user of PS/1 2011 and 2121 I have not fully preloaded machines! Fifteen years ago, the Yellow Pages in our house was torn and tattered from frequent use. A map showed your street and which houses were occupied or vacant.

MySpace 101

MySpace Yahoo Ustream StumbleUpon 101

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

It’s mostly a playground for engineers and marketers. In one of the first, if not THE first, Google+ directories, you can find people to follow and add to your circles across a broad range of topic areas from bloggers, journalists and tech entrepreneurs to scientists, filmmakers and foodies. It’s appealing, but too late.

Google 195

Google Tips Hubspot Adwords 195

SocialFish

OCTOBER 4, 2019

million unique visitors as of May 2006, isoHunt was one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines. According to Alexa , the site was the most visited torrent directory on the World Wide Web from 2003 until November 2014, when KickassTorrents supplanted it. Thousands of torrents were added to and deleted from it every day.

Sites 100

Sites Domain Name Policies Software 100

Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 18, 2012

Between mid-2009 and late 2011, “messaging friends declined 12%, searching for new contacts fell 17% and joining a group of Facebook users dropped 19% in the U.S.” Google’s search engine is used by 85% of global Internet users every month. Tumblr grew 900% in 2011 and now has 90 million users. Mindjumpers ).

Statistics 198

Statistics Social Media B2B Marketing 198

Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 18, 2012

Between mid-2009 and late 2011, “messaging friends declined 12%, searching for new contacts fell 17% and joining a group of Facebook users dropped 19% in the U.S.” Google’s search engine is used by 85% of global Internet users every month. Tumblr grew 900% in 2011 and now has 90 million users. Mindjumpers ).

Statistics 204

Statistics Social Media B2B Marketing 204

Writtent Blog

AUGUST 3, 2016

16 Optimize for CTR from Search Engines. #17 When it comes to search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, everyone seems to have an opinion. The trouble is, many techniques serve the search engines and not your audience and readers. A lot of people type questions into their search engine. 2 Use Influencer Marketing. #3

SEO 0

SEO Google Sites Engineering 0

Viper Chill

JANUARY 27, 2014

Building a search engine to correctly order billions of web pages for billions of queries has to be one of the greatest computational challenges in human history. Over two years ago now, back in December 2011, Joost de Valk a.k.a As far as I know, it would be impossible for any search engine to ever know this.

Google 89

Google SEO Widget Sites 89