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Category: SEO

  • Is Keyword Anchor Text Killing Your SEO?

    Is Keyword Anchor Text Killing Your SEO?

    Since the release of Penguin 2.0, many sites have taken a dive in the SERPs.

    One of the causes of poor SERP performance is an excess of anchor text containing specific keywords.

    In the past, a primary goal of link building was to gain many incoming links. These links often used anchor text with keywords relevant to a site’s SEO strategy.

    However, in recent years, Google has focused on the characteristics of natural link growth. They now penalize sites whose backlink profiles appear to have been artificially created by SEOs.

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  • Increase Conversions With Minimalist On-Site Notification Bars

    Increase Conversions With Minimalist On-Site Notification Bars

    Let’s be honest with ourselves: pop-ups, pop-unders, intrusive Flash advertising, and content-obscuring modal dialogues all suck, both from an aesthetic perspective and for site users.

    In modern web design, the trend is towards elegance and simplicity; providing awesome content that’s pleasant to consume is the order of the day. But, we have to make money, and that’s what intrusive advertising is supposed to achieve.

    The web is growing up, and part of its developing maturity is that serious sites that want to make money from content – particularly bloggers – are tying to look less like the flyers we find under our windshield wipers advertising quack remedies in garish colors and fonts, and more like credible publications.

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  • SEO, Content Marketing, and Social Media: The Best Of July 2013

    SEO, Content Marketing, and Social Media: The Best Of July 2013

    Love & Marriage. Peanut Butter & Jelly. SEO & Content Marketing (or SEO & Social Media)??? These days, the letters SEO are usually followed by one of two pairs of words. Like other great combinations from history, it seems that you can’t have one without the other. In that spirit, we’ve gathered up the best SEO, content marketing, and social media articles from July for your enjoyment. When you’ve finished reading, let us know your favorites in the comment section below.

    SEO

    10 Effective Tips on Ways to Use Search Engine Optimization for Your E-Commerce Site

    1. Compile an in-depth keyword research report. Focus on your business products and services. Consider your brand and industry. Think about the demographics of your target customers. You’ll need to choose specific long-tail keyword search terms. Also, select relevant keyword phrases. Test these using tools like Google Keyword Tools. This will help you determine the estimated traffic for each keyword phrase. You’ll also see the competitiveness of each phrase.

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  • Gain an Edge in Global SEO with ccTLDs: ASEOHosting Explains

    Gain an Edge in Global SEO with ccTLDs: ASEOHosting Explains

    Hudson, FL, July 30, 2013 – ASEOHosting, a leading provider of SEO hosting and multiple IP hosting commented today. The topic was confusion about country code top-level domains (ccTLDs).

    This relates to international SEO. SEO experts at the company noticed several misunderstandings.

    These misunderstandings concerned the best ways to use ccTLDs. The company has released a statement. This statement aims to clarify the advantages of ccTLDs.

    These advantages are for businesses targeting specific geographical locations. This is in relation to their international search engine optimization.

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  • Why Should you Use SEO Hosting for your websites?

    Why Should you Use SEO Hosting for your websites?

    When people hear about SEO hosting, a common query is “Why should I use SEO hosting; surely I can optimize my site for search with any hosting company.”

    That’s completely right, but SEO hosting has a specific place in the SEO strategist’s tool box.

    In this article, we’d like to clear up some of the confusion around SEO hosting and help you develop an understanding of what it is and why you might need it.

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  • Inside the Pro’s Mind Crafting Perfect Corporate Guest Posts

    Inside the Pro’s Mind Crafting Perfect Corporate Guest Posts

    Guest posting and corporate blogging have become an essential part of SEO and inbound marketing. If you’ve not written blog posts regularly, it can seem like a straightforward exercise, but when you’re looking at a blank page and a pile of notes,

    it’s not quite so simple to pull it together into a effective SEO package that is maximally sharable and readable for the intended audience.

    We will look at actionable tips. These tips and techniques will help structure a blog post. This will help marketers and SEOs create great content. We’ll learn from journalists. They excel at conveying information clearly and briefly. However, we will adapt their advice. This will make it more useful for SEOs and marketers in general.

    We’re going to assume that you’re on top of the research, have your market personas in order, and know what you want to say, but just need a little help organizing and structuring it on the page.

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  • The Hidden Costs (and Values) of Web Hosting.

    The Hidden Costs (and Values) of Web Hosting.

    Web hosting can range in cost from free to pennies a month to hundreds or even thousands of dollars. If you’re contemplating setting up a website, you may wonder exactly what you get for your money.

    The services that web hosting companies offer vary, but all of them share a basic set of costs that enable them to get your site up and running on the net. We’re going to have a look at those costs and think about how free web hosting and very cheap web hosting companies pay for them.

    The Costs

    Infrastructure

    For a company to offer web hosting, they need servers. Servers are usually high-power computers that are capable of processing lots of data and delivering it to web clients. Your average home computer can do much the same thing at a less efficient level, but hosting companies need specialist hardware that has lots of RAM, disk space, and processing power.

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  • SEO, Content Marketing, and Social Media: The Best Of June 2013

    SEO, Content Marketing, and Social Media: The Best Of June 2013

    June brought the warm weather and also warmed up the old SEO vs. content marketing debate. Throw social media into the mix and you have a real quagmire. In that spirit, we’ve gathered up the best SEO, content marketing, and social media articles from June. After you’ve taken a moment to peruse our selections, let us know where you stand on the debate in the comment section below.

    SEO

    Keyword Research is now a Dirty Trick?

    Since the announcement of a new Penguin Update 2.0 some people are running scare and others are shouting, “Keywords?! I don’t even know what keywords are. I just write for my audience!” What makes you think using keywords is some sort of dirty trick? Google wants you to use keywords to guide them in cataloging your content. How else would they know where to put your stuff? (more…)

  • My Go-To SEO Plugins For A New WordPress Install

    My Go-To SEO Plugins For A New WordPress Install

    People who frequently install and configure WordPress often develop a standard set of plugins. They install these plugins on every new site. They become very familiar with the quirks and functions of their default set.

    This familiarity is like knowing the back of their hands. It’s a helpful habit for increasing productivity.

    I’m always happy to try out something new, but if you have a core selection of plugins, it’s easy to keep track of security issues and monitor the progress of development. It also allows me to construct a well-worn workflow so that WordPress installations can be completed quickly and efficiently.

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  • Penguin 2.0: Crucial SEO Lessons for Over-Optimized Sites!

    Penguin 2.0: Crucial SEO Lessons for Over-Optimized Sites!

    A little over a year after its introduction, the Penguin algorithm was given a major update. As many have discovered, Penguin has had sweeping effects on the way Google deals with sites it considers to be trying to game the system with over-optimization.

    Since Penguin first hit the servers, there have been two significant updates. However, both were largely tweaks or minor data refreshes. Penguin 4 introduces a major update to the core algorithm and delves much deeper into sites to detect spammy tactics.

    If version numbers confuse you, remember this: Google revised the Penguin spam program three times. They labeled this update Penguin 4. However, they call it Penguin 2.0 because it’s the first major algorithm revision.

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