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8 Critical SEO and Digital Marketing Opportunities

Adam Sherk

For this, it is essential to adhere to search engine requirements such as making all links to sponsor sites nofollow and preventing indexation in Google News. An interesting trend is the increasing influence of user actions and engagement signals on search engine rankings. So make sure to get it right.

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How Social Media Can Increase Your New Site’s Search Visibility

Socialmedia.biz

Search engines are placing higher importance on what’s coming from social media. The extent to which Google and other search engines are indexing and ranking social traffic is still relatively unclear, but one thing is quite clear, social media matters. In 2012, Facebook stated that it had around 1 billion searches per day.

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2 Million Backlinks and 15 SEO Answers from Google’s Matt Cutts

Viper Chill

I still feel though that the search results from 2011 and 2012 are just far better than what we’ve seen in 2013. Should we include the rel=”nofollow” by default? ” A client got unnatural link warnings in September 2012 without any example links. Trying to defend yourself against thousands (millions?)

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Link-building Tips and Tools for Bloggers in a Post-Panda and Penguin World

ProBlogger

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. Remember that link building should not just be solely for increasing search engine rankings or building up PageRank. Link building post-Panda and Penguin.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Sign up right now at a totally reduced cost for 2012 for a limited time. User Friendly SEO : These are the tactics that search engine optimizers should use to optimize for search engines and user experience. Want the trends, news, and findings too? Wouldn’t you want your image to be associated with local places?

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Network Exclusive: How to Thrive After Penguin 2.1

Viper Chill

Keep in mind that the original Penguin update, launched back in late April 2012, was clearly focused on removing spam from search engine results. They have the funds and the obvious motive to make a search engine that doesn’t play by the same rules across the board. Hit Factor #1: Over-optimisation of Anchor Text.

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PIN’s: The Future of Private Link Building

Viper Chill

The knowledge graph was released in May of 2012 and it’s almost disappointing when you don’t see it for queries when looking for quick answers. They have undoubtedly created the world’s most sophisticated search engine. Based on how Google’s past, it’s not one of surprise. They Have All The Answers.

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