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The Perennial SEO Audit – Creating an Effective Framework for Keeping Your Campaign Running at Peak Performance
It's hugely beneficial for us SEO types to periodically helicopter up from the daily grind and survey our campaigns from a top level.
How to Detect and Deal With Toxic Content (That Could Poison Your Entire Site)
It's critical to habitually audit your domains for low-value content that could negatively impact organic search visibility. Here are some efficient ways to automate and scale your efforts by leveraging the following tools, tips, and tactics.
Google Panda: Understanding the Technical Inner Workings
How does Google's Panda algorithm work? No doubt things have changed since the Panda patent was written, but it provides some valuable insight in URL- and group-level ranking factors to consider, and how to avoid and overcome Google's Panda.
Quick Internal Linking Insight Using Google Analytics
Linking to URLs with a certain parameter can cause SEO issues such as duplication. Here's how to quickly and easily use information already available to you in Google Analytics to get a list of and find pages linking to a particular group of URLs.
Matt Cutts on How Google Ranks Pages That Don’t Get Many Links
How does Google determine that content is quality, when there aren't many links pointing to it? Or how is it determined that the content is spammy or thin, when there are a lot of links pointing to it? Google's Matt Cutts explains.
Matt Cutts on How Google Handles 404 & 410 Status Codes
In a recent webmaster help video, Google's Matt Cutts talks about the nuances of 404 vs. 410 status codes. While Google's crawlers treat 404s and 410s nearly identically, Cutts reveals that sometimes Google does treat them a little bit differently.
5 Steps to Execute a Site Redesign Without Compromising SEO
Whether your website is outdated, isn't mobile-friendly, or you just know it's time for a redesign, you can follow these steps to successfully redesign your website without compromising SEO efforts, and actually strengthen your SEO strategy.
Matt Cutts: Submit Scraper Sites That Outrank You on Google
If scraper sites that have copied your own content, you can now report it to Google by providing the source URL, where the content was taken from, the URL of the scraper site, and the keywords where the scraper site was ranking on.
Facebook News Feed Algorithm Change Reduces Visibility of Page Updates
Facebook is making some changes to how users see updates from individuals and pages in the news feed. This change will definitely hurt businesses running branded pages on Facebook that don't want to pay for Facebook advertising for visibility.
Facebook to Kill Sponsored Stories
As of April 9, domain and open graph sponsored stories will no longer be served to users. Although Sponsored Stories can convert very well, many Facebook users found them creepy because they turned information about friend's likes into ads.
