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The Importance of Search Engine Optimization

Jason Yormark

With this in mind, I think it’s important to look at some statistics to better understand why search engine optimization is so important. Here are some numbers to contemplate in this regard: 90% of the adult population in the United States uses a search engine to find information online.

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Google Hosts Low Quality Article Directory with Links They Want Us to Remove

Bill Hartzer

Let’s first take a look at this ‘article directory’ website: If you look at the screen shot, you’ll see that it’s an “article directory” that’s similar to the what Matt Cutts talked recently talked bout. In fact, he said not to build links using article directory websites.

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Link Building: Four Types of Backlinks to Pursue (And Three to Avoid)

Webbiquity SMM

Given that more than 90% of both business-to-business and local consumer purchases now begin with online search, search engine optimization (SEO) has become essential for business success. Local directories and high-quality industry directories. as well as online yellow pages and other similar directories.

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How Search Engine Optimization Adds Value to a Website

Bill Hartzer

Most likely, if you have a website for your business, you probably have been pitched by a host of companies about the benefits of Search Engine Optimization. But search engine optimization should do a lot more than just help you “get found&# in the search engine results. Let’s take, for example, Gun Barrel Ranch.

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Google Issues Search Engine Optimization Report Card

Bill Hartzer

This is very interesting, because as you might recall, a while back on the Vizion Interactive Search Engine Optimization blog I wrote about how Google issued a Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide , set up an example web site, and used a 302 Temporary Redirect. Directory form, www.google.com/product(/). Tweet This!

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What is Robots.Txt?

BeingOptimist

Robots.txt is a text file which contains a set of instructions and tells the search engine crawlers or spider which parts of the website to be crawled or not to be crawled. Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing follows the standard protocol of robots.txt to index or crawl webpages. Examples of Robots.txt File.

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Search Traffic Declining? You’re Not Alone (and What to Do About It)

Webbiquity SMM

According to research from BuzzFeed , “Search traffic to publishers has taken a dive in the last eight months, with traffic from Google dropping more than 30%…While Google makes up the bulk of search traffic to publishers, traffic from all search engines has dropped by 20% in the same period.”

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