ProBlogger

JANUARY 8, 2013

Image courtesy Lore & Guille, licensed under Creative Commons So to help you out, I’ve compiled this list of our 20 most popular articles from 2012. Now, without further ado, here are our top 20 articles from 2012! URL Be Sorry: Google Cuts Back on Top-ranking Exact-match Domains.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 16, 2013

We identified approximately 800 urls and began reaching out to webmasters on all those sites, requesting removal of multiple links. I have reported these URLS to the Google Spam Team, in accordance with the advice given by Google’s Webmaster Central Blog, here: [link]. Duplicate content issues resolved. Improved page speed.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 22, 2012

billion individual search queries in the US alone in August 2012 , meaning that 0.6% Poor quality content is already a no-no, as are paid links or those created by spamming blog comments and discussion forums. URL Be Sorry! This might not sound like many searches in the grand scheme of things. What they said.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 23, 2017

If you go to The New York Times right now, pick any article, and send the URL via Facebook Messenger to one of your friends, you’ve shared it via dark social. The term was coined by Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic in 2012, who then said we’re only seeing—and measuring—the tip of the sharing iceberg. And he was right, of course.

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Brands Analytics Data Metrics 131

Kikolani

MAY 28, 2013

Content Marketing Institute. How Social Media Examiner Grew Its List 234% (2012) – “The pop-up form has been absolutely instrumental in our success” says Stelzner, who estimates that the form generates nearly 70% of email subscriptions. Targeting popups at the page, post category, specific post, referral URL, and other levels.

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Case Study WordPress Study FeedBurner 168

Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 30, 2012

per year provides “submission and search engine ranking for domain owners” The offer goes on to say: Failure to complete your search engine registration by Nov 10, 2012 may result in the cancellation of this order (making it difficult for your customers to locate you using search engines on the web).

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Josh S Peters

JANUARY 15, 2013

While SEO is still definitely about creating the least imperfect site it’s become more and more about the type and quality of the content on the site and how it gets shared off the site. The content is what gets shared, it’s what gets those social votes, it’s what we engage with. Accessible, Quality Content.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Today I’d like to walk you through the new features which were introduced in 2012, in WordPress 3.4 Being able to see how themes will look with your existing content has greatly improved the process of installing WordPress designs via your Admin area, and changed the way bloggers choose their themes. February 2011) and 3.2

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 27, 2012

was the second and final major WordPress release of 2012. There’s a content template for each one, so these designs can easily be changed with just a few small edits. The same three options are available as before: Upload Files, Media Library and Embed from URL. New features added to WordPress 3.5.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Some are newer, others are longstanding, but I wanted to gather them together and focus on the benefits for news and content sites. The open source nature of AMP is a plus but I’m not a fan of having to create separate URLs. Syndication and Sponsored Content. App Indexing and App Store Optimization.

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SEO Syndication Marketing NoFollow 100

Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

They are now just as important as developing the right content and getting people to link to your site. Google responded to the possibility of sabotage by introducing the Disavow Links tool in October 2012. Alternately, the URL from the link source has a typo in it. If you do this, think about your potential audience.

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Blogger URL SEO Sites 100

Kikolani

JUNE 15, 2012

10 Free Tools Every Business Blogger Should Bookmark – Explore the free tools out there that will help you be better at business blogging and content creation. 7 Ways to Increase Your Blog Visibility With Social Sharing – How to make your content more shareable and drive traffic to your blog. Blogging / Writing.

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Socially Sorted

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Since 2012 we have created many infographics for blog posts on my Socially Sorted blog, as well as for guest posts, and for clients. You can also customize your designs as much as you want, but at their simplest, all that is required is a simple content switch, and boom!… For many years now I have been a big fan of infographics.

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Template Templates Tools Hubspot 102

ProBlogger

APRIL 11, 2018

We’ll also take a look at some other ways to recycle old content (such as turning posts into a podcast, an ebook, or even an online course). Will Google penalise me for republishing content?”. How to Republish Your Content in WordPress (the Right Way). Make sure you keep the URL the same.

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How To eBook URL Case Study 53

Kikolani

JULY 20, 2016

In general, we cannot make predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs will be crawled or indexed.”. If the content is crawl-able. This refers to server response time and whether the content is SEO optimized or not. Search engines use “spiders” to “crawl” the Internet, constantly searching for new and fresh content.

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Google Directory Domain Name SEO 60

Kikolani

JULY 20, 2016

In general, we cannot make predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs will be crawled or indexed.”. If the content is crawl-able. This refers to server response time and whether the content is SEO optimized or not. Search engines use “spiders” to “crawl” the Internet, constantly searching for new and fresh content.

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Google Directory Domain Name SEO 60

Convince & Convert

JULY 17, 2012

They demonstrate their industry leadership in social media disclosure by using industry best practices, such as those articulated in the July 2012 revision of The WOMMA Guide to Disclosure in Social Media Marketing. Our new plain language URLs — rul.es, ter.ms Rul.es, ter.ms and leg.al are one aspect of the CMP.LY

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 29, 2012

It will gather related content from a range of sources for you to view from your customized page. One of the best content curation tools I’ve come across because of the sheer amount of sources you can choose from including Bing, Google, YoutTube, Flikcr, Twitter and much, much more. Addict-o-matic. Why you should use it? SocialMention.

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Proactive Report

MAY 20, 2013

You’re producing content – or you should be. David Armano of Edelman Digital calls this a social/creative model and wrote in November 2012 that if you don’t have this kind of online newsroo m within a year you might regret it. One of the joys of digital content is that we can measure everything.What to measure is the trick.

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Idaconcpts

MAY 21, 2012

Starting in late March 2012, Twitter introduced a new advertising offering that makes it simple for companies of any size to grow their businesses using our Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts products. March 7, 2012. Twitter partnered with American Express to make it easy for small business owners to advertise on Twitter.

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The Social Media Hat

AUGUST 19, 2016

How to make money, real money, while publishing content, is one of the preeminent questions of any new blogger. If the ad content doesn't immediately appeal to your readers, they will ignore it, and the real money from paid advertising is driven by click-throughs. Surrounding your content with ads will not help that cause.

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Adsense How To CPI Blogger 60

Bill Hartzer

MAY 11, 2012

– Our SEO content writers create an original blog post related to your industry and post on a proprietary network. And encouraging social bookmarks to your site’s “shareable content” and quality content is reasonable. © 2012 American Express Company. All rights reserved.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

A screenshot from semrush, showing the growth of traffic since 2012. Have you ever heard the term ‘content it’s king’? Make your content better than the competition and everything else will follow. If you want to get traffic from search engines, you need to have content. So, let’s get started. It’s as simple as that.

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Adsense How To SEO Publishing 54

Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 3:09 AM. In order to get out of the penalty, The Google WebSpam Team have asked me to submit to their “spam-report” page all the URL’s pointing to me that I have not been able to have my links removed from. Please pass to webmaster of: XXXX.org. Hi – hope you are well?

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Google Tools Sites Engineering 130

Proactive Report

MAY 20, 2013

You’re producing content – or you should be. David Armano of Edelman Digital calls this a social/creative model and wrote in November 2012 that if you don’t have this kind of online newsroo m within a year you might regret it. One of the joys of digital content is that we can measure everything.What to measure is the trick.

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Skills Analytics Press Release Metrics 53

ProBlogger

APRIL 2, 2012

The content will later be added to Tourism Queensland’s new blog. The event will run from June 5 until June 10, 2012, not including travel time. The content will later be featured on the Tourism Queensland blog. We need some basics like your name, blog URL, traffic, your social media accounts, etc.,

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Tourism Blogger Training Class 55

Proactive Report

MAY 20, 2013

You’re producing content – or you should be. David Armano of Edelman Digital calls this a social/creative model and wrote in November 2012 that if you don’t have this kind of online newsroo m within a year you might regret it. One of the joys of digital content is that we can measure everything.What to measure is the trick.

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Skills Analytics Press Release Metrics 40

ProBlogger

JANUARY 29, 2013

In this post you will learn how you can use Google Analytics content experiments to conduct multivariate testing on your own opt-in forms in an easy and controlled way that will allow you to maximise your conversions. In early 2012 Econsultancy.com and Redeye conducted a survey [link] that yielded some interesting results.

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Little Web Giants

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Favicons are the small icons you see in the tabs of your browser, or in the URL bar. Unfortunately it looks like this template hasn’t been updated since May 2012, so it was time to go searching for a new solution. They add to a site’s branding, and are pretty useful for tab junkies like me.

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Template Templates Apple Metadata 54

ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2012

Before we get started, I just thought I would mention a few Google algorithm changes that you should know about when thinking about link building in 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.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 17, 2013

On December 22, 2012, I launched my latest, aforementioned podcast. If you’re blogging already and want to focus on producing content for the same type of audience, then this part of the process will be a little easier and faster for you. Make sure that the boxes are checked before Media URL and Media File Size and Duration.

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Directory URL Marketing RSS 54

Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 23, 2012

How can you stand out among all the chirping, build your Twitter presence, grow your following, and get your content promoted? Find the answers to those and many more questions here in more than two dozen of the best Twitter how-to guides, resources, tools and reviews of 2012 so far. Twitter Tips for Newbies.

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Tools Tips Twitter Klout 203

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 15, 2013

As noted in 21 (of the) Best Facebook Guides, Tools and Rants of 2012 So Far a few months back, Facebook remains the 800-pound gorilla of the social networking world. Find the answers to these questions and more here in two dozen of the best Facebook guides, tips, stats, facts, raves and rants of 2012. Facebook Tips and Guides.

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Little Web Giants

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Favicons are the small icons you see in the tabs of your browser, or in the URL bar. Unfortunately it looks like this template hasn’t been updated since May 2012, so it was time to go searching for a new solution. They add to a site’s branding, and are pretty useful for tab junkies like me.

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Template Templates Apple Metadata 28

Little Web Giants

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Favicons are the small icons you see in the tabs of your browser, or in the URL bar. Unfortunately it looks like this template hasn’t been updated since May 2012, so it was time to go searching for a new solution. They add to a site’s branding, and are pretty useful for tab junkies like me.

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Template Templates Apple Metadata 28

Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 4, 2013

It’s now all about link earning , so I am officially going to call myself a content publicist. I am no longer a link builder, but am now an online content publicist. Links from Social Sites – The search engines crawl the social sites, and the best way to get a page crawled is to mention the URL in a Tweet or on Google+.

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Buffer Social

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Some of the best advice I found dated all the way back to 2012, which shows just how long some folks have been excelling in the podcast game. Here are some ideas: > Pin your episode tweet or Facebook post, featuring the iTunes URL. > Publish two weeks of podcast-themed blog content. Solve a problem. Then, keep sharing.

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