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Google Quality Rater Guidelines 2014

Bill Hartzer

I just got ahold of the latest copy of Google’s Quality Rater Guidelines, with a date of March 2014. There may be some things that you can improve, I’ve found a few things that I’m going to pay attention to from now on when I perform complex SEO Audits for clients. The website has a negative reputation. •

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6 Speakers You Shouldn’t Miss at Pubcon Austin 2014

Bill Hartzer

I’ll be presenting with Eric Enge on Social Signals and SEO , so make sure you don’t miss that one if you’re going to be attending the conference in Austin. I already mentioned my session with Eric Enge on Social Signals and SEO. Got a question about Bing or search or SEO in general? Reputation Management.

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21 People I Want to Hear Speak at Pubcon NOLA 2014

Bill Hartzer

The PubCon conference, being held in New Orleans March 17 to March 20, 2014 at the New Orleans Convention Center , is a great conference that I’m attending and speaking at next week. I prefer the organic SEO-related sessions and the social media sessions, so my list is probably going to be a little biased towards those sessions.

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Google, Trust and SEO

Proactive Report

For example, a reference by another agent with a high reputational score is of greater significance than a reference by another agent with a low reputational score. Someone with what Google calls a “high reputational score” gets more Google juice than someone else with a low score. Online PR'

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The Convergence of Search and Social Part 2 – Social Media

Josh S Peters

Protect Brand Reputation. Over the years we have seen countless examples of how social media can make or break the reputation of a brand. When it comes to search this layer is very similar to Protect Brand Reputation. This layer is important, but it shouldn’t be the only focus of your social media program. Leads and Sales.

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Guest Blogging Evolution: Why Top Blogs Did Not Accept Your Content

Kikolani

Online reputation. They were audacious enough to turn guest blogging into something it remained until 2014, namely a set of proven automatic techniques to get links and the most out of SEO. poor rewriting; random outreach here and there; spammy content; SEO-titles, not relevant to the content itself; keyworded anchors for links.

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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

Social Media Strategery

As we’ve seen time and time again , turning over your brand’s reputation to an intern isn’t always the wisest choice. Here are seven ways brands will spend more money on social media and content marketing in 2014: Creating content. Social Media content content marketing media paid media seo social media'