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Do Google +1s and Shares Help Search Engine Rankings?

Bill Hartzer

My friend Eric Enge from Stone Temple Consulting took the time recently to put together a great study that focused on the Google+ social network. The whole idea of this study was to figure out whether or not Google +1s actually help search engine rankings. Google+ social shares and +1s *DO* count.

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Search Engine Optimization Tip: Include Keywords in URLs

Bill Hartzer

They should also be found in your URLs. Here is what Matt Cutts says about Keywords in URLs: Your domain name is a big place to start. If you don’t think that keywords in your URLs are important, you need to find out some history about all of it. This is a logical step to really get more overall benefits from your SEO efforts.

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Search Engine Optimization – Position Zero and Featured Snippets

Proactive Report

Google’s number one position in search results has long been a coveted position, but, when it comes to SEO, zero is the new number one. Google has a specific set of content guidelines that change regularly. Tables – Sometimes Google will extract information from a page in table form such as a conversion chart for cups to ounces.

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Free Search Engine Submission Get Your URL Listed On Google, Bing, Yahoo And More! - Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

With business going all out on Social Media it is time that you have a good understanding of Search Engines. Search Engine Optimization is one of the clear ways in which you do things On Page and Off Page so that you feature a little higher in searches. Just put your URL and that is it - you are set in the queue.

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Check Those HTTPS URLs

Small Business Mavericks

Did you see this Google+ post by Gary Illyes? Here’s something for y’all web wranglers: please tell search engines about your HTTPS URLs! A recent, small scale analysis we ran showed that more than 80% of the HTTPS URLs that are eligible for indexing (i.e. Security Makes a Difference in SEO.

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How To Add Custom URL to Google Plus G+

Laurel Papworth

How to get a custom URL for Google Plus. with Google’s official version of a Facebook USERNAME. If you aren’t on Google Plus already you are mad. Google Plus Business Pages suck as much as Facebook Pages though, as they are identical. Anywho, How to add a Google Plus custom URL.

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Who Is Reading Your URL?

Small Business Mavericks

“A site’s URL structure should be as simple as possible. Consider organizing your content so that URLs are constructed logically and in a manner that is most intelligible to humans (when possible, readable words rather than long ID numbers). A URL like [link] is much less appealing to users.” Computers do.

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