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Author: Daniel Page

Daniel Page

Daniel Page is the Director of Business Development at ASEOHosting and a longtime contributor to the company blog. He writes about SEO strategy, IP-diverse hosting, and staying visible in an AI-driven search landscape—bridging the gap between infrastructure and optimization.

Will the Go Daddy Outage Affect Your SEO?
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Anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock in recent days will be aware that GoDaddy recently suffered an outage that left millions of its client’s websites inaccessible. While this sort of downtime will obviously affect a site’s traffic and therefore revenue, many people are asking whether it will have an effect on their SEO.
The short answer to that question is no, probably not. Google generally isn’t happy when they find a site has disappeared from their index. However, they know problems happen. As long as these problems aren’t regular, a site’s SERP ranking likely won’t drop. Reliability is important. Therefore, a site that is often down will be ranked lower. But a short period of unavailability is unusual. It’s not a useful signal of a negative trend. (more…)
September 13, 2012
Nofollow Links Explained: The Good, The Bad & The SEO Truth
There’s been a fair bit of chatter in recent months about the value of nofollow links for SEO. Google considers nofollow links a naturalness signal when evaluating backlink profiles. Truth aside, every SEO should understand nofollow links. The key question: Are nofollow backlinks actually worth pursuing? (more…)
September 7, 2012
Brands: Advertising vs. Social Engagement
In the weeks following Facebook’s IPO, the Zuckerberg-led social network faced intense scrutiny. Many people expressed doubts about the financial viability of Facebook’s revenue model. This was especially true regarding its advertising service. For example, GM pulled their Facebook marketing campaign.
Additionally, the music industry e-commerce startup Limited Run made an impact. They claimed that 80% of the clicks for their ads were (details omitted). Whether that complaint is accurate is still a matter of debate. Furthermore, a study from the Advertising Research Council made a claim. It stated that “blank” ads with no content were performing only 0.1% less well than regular ads.

While this news is not good for Facebook’s future revenue, and businesses should think hard before spending their advertising budgets on Facebook’s paid ad platform, the real value of Facebook and social media generally was never through paid ads anyway
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August 30, 2012
Decoding Content Marketing: What You Need to Know
It’s becoming increasingly clear that traditional advertising is not creating the levels of engagement that marketers might hope for. Consumers are conditioned to barely see banner advertising — assuming they haven’t installed an ad-blocker — and they are very sensitive and averse to content which they perceive to be biased towards selling.
Content marketing is an alternative or complementary marketing method that aims to generate conversions in the long term by fostering brand loyalty and awareness, and demonstrating competence within a particular niche.
Which simply providing content, be it text, audio, video, or even apps, that is of value to clients and customers. Content marketing makes businesses into publishers. This blog post is an example of content marketing.
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August 23, 2012
How to Adapt to Google’s June/July Algorithm Shifts
Google didn’t release their usual algorithm update news last month, so this week we have a plethora of juicy updates to look at.
Recently, Google has focused on three key SERP improvements:
1. Cleaning up search result pages
2. Enhancing Panda’s high-quality content detection
3. Displaying more answers directly on results (reducing clicks to websites)
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August 16, 2012
See What Googlebot Sees: Fetch As Google.
A couple of weeks ago we looked at negative SEO and what you can do to protect your site. One of the techniques we mentioned was hacking. Competitors, upon gaining access to a site, may alter the content or add malware to pages in the hope that Google will delist or penalize a site. Hackers may also simply attempt to use a site to spread their malware without any particular intentions regarding SEO.
We gave a number of suggestions for dealing such an intrusion, but often, after having received a warning from Google, it can be difficult to determine exactly what the Googlebot crawler is seeing.
Hackers are adept at making a site appear perfectly normal to those who go directly to a page, while serving malware or undesirable keywords and hidden links to search engine crawlers and those who arrive at a site from a search engine. What you see when you visit a site is not necessarily what Googlebot is seeing.
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August 9, 2012
Beyond Like: The Real Power of Social Proof in Social Media
One of the major psychological foundations for the purported effectiveness of social media marketing is social proof.
What is Social Proof?
The idea is fairly simple: people are more likely to find a product or service appealing if there is evidence that other people find it desirable. Robert B. Cialdini, in his very popular Influence: Science and Practice, describes social proof as
an important means that people use to decide what to believe or how to act in a situation by looking at what other people are believing or doing.
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August 4, 2012
Negative SEO: The Hidden Threat to Your Rankings!
In a recent blog entry, Matt Cutts discusses a common response of sites that have been delisted or had their SERP position drop. Webmasters say that there’s nothing wrong with their site, that they haven’t been engaged in any shady link-building strategies, and Google is unfairly punishing them. Cutts responds that in many of these cases the reason for the penalty is that sites have been hacked and infected with malicious software without webmaster being aware.
Hacking a site is one of a number of Negative SEO strategies that a site’s competitors can engage in to damage search rankings and reputations. Today we’ll be having a look at hacking and a couple of other Negative SEO tactics, so that you can be aware of possible vectors of attack for your sites, and what you can do about them.
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July 26, 2012
Small Players, Big Impact: Why SEOs Should Pay Attention.
As we noted in our previous article, personalization in the major search engines is changing the SERP landscape. Indeed, each individual gets a search landscape. This landscape is shaped uniquely. It is shaped to meet their needs. Google spends a lot of money on research and development. This is to bring relevant search results to its users. They have more or less bet the farm on socially directed, personalized search results. Some people find this to be a wonderful advance, and Google’s recent iteration for search on mobile — Google Now — is the logical extension of this approach, and has found favor in many corners.
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July 23, 2012
Less Traffic, Better Engagement: The Surprising Truth!
Many sites around the web have taken a hit with their traffic numbers because of Google’s recent Panda and Penguin updates, and it would be hard to argue that this is in any way positive. But, if we put these causes for traffic loss aside, there is another factor that is of concern to SEOs and webmasters.
Even if algorithm changes haven’t caused traffic drops, things have changed. Google’s recent push to personalize search results has made something almost impossible. It’s now very hard to predict what a specific user’s SERP will look like with any certainty.
All the SEO in the world won’t help drive traffic. This is true if Google decides something. They might use a user’s browsing, search, and social media data. Based on this, they might think a user wants something unrelated to your site. This could happen even if the user enters seemingly relevant search terms.
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July 16, 2012