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10 Things That Expose Good Sites to Google Panda

Adam Sherk

Google Panda was designed to go after sites with a high volume of thin or low-quality content (among other things) in an effort to improve the overall strength of the search results. But the unfortunate reality is that with just about every Panda update well-established brands with good content get caught in the filter.

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Five Things Your Homepage Should Definitely Have

Small Business Mavericks

If you don’t, there’s a good chance your site isn’t functioning the way it should. I think a content audit should be done about every six months, because you consistently are adding content to your site, and it’s easy to inadvertently change something.

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[Answered] Are Guest Blog Posts Even Worthwhile Or Am I Just Giving Away My Content?

SocMed Sean

I’d like to get more referral traffic, but I’d rather focus on writing for my own blog, rather than giving my content away to others. Am I being selfish about my content? Are the back-links from other sites worth it? The best way to get someone to link to your site is to offer them something of value in return.

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How Much Google News Traffic Do Publishers Get? Here’s Data on 80 News Sites.

Adam Sherk

In working with a wide range of news and content sites, I know that becoming an approved source and maximizing Google News visibility (through avoiding news crawl errors and editorial optimization) continue to be important priorities. This is not intended to be a comprehensive list or a definitive ranking. total search visits.

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Pay search engines to display your site

Josh S Peters

There are two ways you can pay a search engine to display your site. Paid inclusion Paid inclusion is anytime you pay the search engine to include you in their results and it’s common among some directories and submission based search engines. Some of these sites are free, others are definitely a paid service.

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Five Marketing Metrics that are Definitely NOT “Worthless”

Webbiquity SMM

Facebook “Likes” The article argues in his post that “the vast majority of people who click the ‘like’ button will never return to the site of their own accord. Search Engine Visibility. Generic visits are driven by SEO activities (content, social, PR, industry, link-building, etc.). ” True!

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Search Engine Optimization: Why Your Web Content Strategy Must Involve Promotion

Bill Hartzer

Nick Usborne, from WebContentCafe.com , recently wrote a great article about how writing more articles may not be your best web content strategy. So how do you develop a strong, proven, web content strategy that is good for search engine optimization (SEO)?