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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. The types of sites vary but most are trusted, authoritative brands with large audiences that have produced quality, popular content for years.

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

Adam Sherk

Google News has been in the news itself lately, from European efforts to impose taxes to questions about its value and even suggestions for giving it a full redesign. But I was curious how much news search traffic sites are currently receiving and what percentage of total search traffic it represents. Jan-Nov 2014) Percentage of.

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Google+ Engagement for News Sites: Top Performers and One-Year Growth Rates

Adam Sherk

Which news sites get the most engagement on their Google+ pages? It’s been a year since I took an early look at engagement rates for news organizations on Google+ , so I thought I’d revisit the topic and do a fresh comparison. So I also compiled the total engagement counts for all of the Google+ pages.

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Is Google+ the Next Big Social Media Site for Business?

The Social Media Incubator

Google+ is getting a lot of attention right now due to the “rivalry&# between Google and Facebook, which is heavily partnered with Microsoft. Social Media Strategist Caroline Melberg feels that the site will be beneficial at some point in the future, but it might take some time. “I have more to worry about.

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How to Create the Best Google My Business Posts

Hootsuite

Today, we’re looking at one of the simplest and most direct ways to stay in touch with your customers: Google My Business posts. Google serves 5 billion searches for “restaurants” alone every month. Unlike content for the other big social platforms, your Google My Business posts are designed for people who are already looking for you.

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Can AdWords Be Good For Promoting Your eBook Site?

The Realtime Report

Can AdWords Be Good For Promoting Your eBook Site? While self publishing lowers the barrier to publication for ebooks, authors and ebook site owners also have the responsibility of marketing titles on their own. This brings us to our central question: Can Google AdWords be good for promoting your ebook site?

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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. Here are a few important points that I feel are worth noting: – Google wants it to be easy to find the site owners through “Finding About Us, Contact Information, and Customer Service Information” on the website.