Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 15, 2013

Recently, Google took the position that press releases were simply link schemes , advertorials for a business. Therefore, all links in press releases should have the nofollow attribute added to the links, so that the press release does not pass any SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) value to the website it’s linking to.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

If you have ever received a manual penalty from Google , then you most likely have received this message in Google Webmaster Tools that could be an unnatural link warning , similar to this one that my client received: The message reads something like this: Dear site owner or webmaster of [link]. Sincerely, Google Search Quality Team.

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A day later you notice the post has been indexed by Google, and it’s at #4 on the second page one of your main keywords. A week later, you check that keyword again in Google, and lo and behold, it’s now at #5 on page one. Do Search Engines Use Social Signals to Directly Drive Rankings? Not great but it’s a start.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Just as low-level article directories (ezinearticles, articlesbase, and others) got hurt by Google’s Panda Update in 2013, I predict that Google will hurt sites abusing guest blogging in 2013. I don’t feel guest blogging is bad, nor that all bloggers who do it will be penalized by Google. A real person.

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Socialmedia.biz

JULY 14, 2016

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. Need proof? If you’re still not convinced, find strength in numbers.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 17, 2011

Well, about two-thirds (64%) of the traffic from third-party sites to video sources currently comes from Google, followed by Yahoo (11.9%), Facebook (4.3%), Bing (2.6%), and Twitter at 1.2%. B2B advertising spending on social media is forecasted to grow at an annualized rate of 21% through 2013. Google’s share of the U.S.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 27, 2013

Though at times it may seem like I’m being a bit harsh on Google, I have acknowledged that the job their staff have must be one of the hardest in the world. I still feel though that the search results from 2011 and 2012 are just far better than what we’ve seen in 2013. 15 SEO Answers Directly from Google’s Matt Cutts.

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