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All Links From Squidoo.com Now Nofollow
Big news today for any SEOs using Squidoo for link building purposes, as Bonnie Diczhazy, the Head of Community at Squidoo announced that all outbound links from Squidoo will be nofollowed. The change...
View ArticleWhy Responsive Design Sucks
Ever since Google officially recommended responsive design for mobile SEO, I’ve heard SEOs parroting Google and claiming that responsive design is the best approach to take for mobile sites. However,...
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Google Crawl Stats Exporter
I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere yet, but it looks as though Google is now providing exact numbers in their Crawl Stats report in Google Webmaster Tools: I’m not sure how accurate these numbers...
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Google Glass Explorer
So, apparently I’ve been accepted into the Project Glass Explorer program and I didn’t even notice it! I just noticed today that someone had left a comment on my post, but apparently I was accepted...
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New Current/Past Contributor Feature In Google+
I just noticed that there is now a designator for “current contributor” or “past contributor” in the “Contributor To” section of Google+. Presumably this is for people who might have been contributors...
View ArticleProblems With Bing Site Verification
So the other day, I was trying to access some data in Bing Webmaster Tools for one of the sites that I manage, and I noticed that all of the sites had become unverified. I tried to re-verify the sites,...
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My First Website
#Throwbackthursday! This is the very first website I created, sometime back in 1998. It was a website about a popular Mac RPG called Realmz, and it was my first foray in HTML and web design. It was...
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Google Site: Search Hack
If you’ve been doing SEO for a while, then you’re probably very familiar with the “site:” search on Google. If you’re not familiar with the command, if you go to Google (or Bing) and search for...
View ArticleWhat Yahoo’s Purchase of Tumblr Means for SEO
The big news today is that the rumors have finally come true, and Yahoo has purchased Tumblr for 1 billion dollars. As I detailed in my presentation about Tumblr, Tumblr is the 3rd largest blog...
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Image Title Test for SEO
You may have noticed a couple days ago I published a blog post called “Image Post Test” that included nothing but a picture of a dog. That was part of a test I was conducting to determine whether the...
View ArticleWhy Google Reader Shutting Down Is A Good Thing For RSS
In a little over a week, Google Reader will be shutting its doors for good, leaving me and thousands of others scrambling to find a replacement RSS reader. Like many others, I was pretty annoyed when I...
View ArticleSearchMetrics’ 2013 SEO Ranking Factors Are Useless
SearchMetrics just released an infographic on search ranking factors, and it’s a bunch of bunk. I won’t dignify them by linking to their site, but here’s an Imgur link if you want to lose some brain...
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Pinterest Links Dofollow Again?
So I was going through backlinks today using Open Site Explorer’s “Just-Discovered” feature (which is handy for finding newly found links), and I noticed that there were a lot of Pinterest links in...
View ArticleShare 13 Conference Highlights
I had a great time at the Share 13 conference organized by BrightEdge this past week. BrightEdge definitely knows how to treat their customers well, and they put on a great event with some great...
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Rejoice! iOS 7 Coming Next Week!
MacRumors.com announced today that Apple will be holding an iPhone event next Tuesday (September 10th) at 10am PT. If past iPhone events are any indication, Apple will likely introduce iOS7 to download...
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How To Get A Google+ Vanity URL
It looks like Google+ vanity URLs are finally rolling out for the masses! This morning, I received the following message for one of the pages that I manage: You’re now eligible for a unique Google+...
View ArticleHow To Speed Up Your WordPress Site In Less Than 2 Minutes
I’ve been playing around with the new Site Speed Suggestions Tool that was released today for Google Analytics, and noticed a couple of issues that popped up on my WordPress site. One was that I needed...
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I Am Entity (And So Can You!)
So it looks like Google just updated their Knowledge Graph, and I am officially an entity! The information comes from Freebase, an open source database of entities and things that was acquired by...
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Why Amit Singhal’s Swiss Army Knife Isn’t Reassuring
Yesterday during the SMX West keynote, Danny Sullivan asked Amit Singhal (Google’s head of search) a question that has been on the minds of many webmasters lately: How is Google balancing the interests...
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Google+ Quietly Nofollows All Links
Google+ used to be a great source of dofollow links, but it looks like the party has finally come to an end. When Google+ first launched, all of the links from the site were dofollow. This included...
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