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Yesterday, Gawker Media owner Nick Denton sent out a memo to all staff notifying them that they must limit their headline character count to 70 or less in direct relation to the site’s ability to rank in Google. The memo notes: Our wordy headlines are a growing disadvantage. That’s why from tomorrow we’re going to warn you in the Kinja …
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The hashtag, which has long been ubiquitous with Twitter as a way to group tweets into specific conversations, and has also been employed by Google+ and, the now Facebook-owned, Instagram. It may soon be making an appearance on the biggest social network, Facebook. Last month, the Wall Street Journal revealed that Facebook is working on adding hashtags into their services …
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During SMX West this week, Google and their head of the webspam team Matt Cutts announced several changes to their two current major algorithm initiatives Panda and Penguin. The Panda algorithm update, which was initially launched in early 2011, has the core purpose of eliminating low quality, duplicate and overall spammy content from having a high searchvisibility. Over the past …
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The idea of tying content published online to a verified author and applying a trust factor to that author’s expertise as a way of identifying trusted – commonly referred to as Authorship and AuthorRank – has long been discussed as a potential algorithm game changer within the search engine optimization industry. Until now though, this has been purely speculation and …
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Early this month, Facebook announced they are rebuilding their search functionality within the social network and have dubbed it Graph Search. Graph Search will allow, upon its debut, for users to search for information that has been shared with them via friends that they are connected in ways never before possible. While an official launch date for Graph Search hasn’t …
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For anyone online that is investing time in creating content, generating ideas in their field of expertise, or is involved in become a face or focal point within their business, being able to be found in search engines when a user searches for your name is incredibly important. It helps to define you as your own brand and an expert …
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Digg, the once unstoppable social media juggernaut that helped usher in Web 2.0, has been bought by Betaworks. Yesterday it was announced by Betaworks that it will be purchasing the once-unstoppable social media juggernaut Digg, or at least its brand, website and technology as none of the remaining Digg staff have been asked to join Betaworks.  The price? A paltry …
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Social media, and by that we are really talking about Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and a few niche sites that serve specific audiences, have been talked about and speculated for quite some time that they will replace links as the key offsite SEO indicator of a website’s authority and value for natural search visibility. However, at the 2012 SMX Advance conference …
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In my latest blog post for Advance Digital I walk through the new Contextual Targeting Tool from Google, which uses the old Google Wonder Wheel engine, to find content and keyword ideas for your website. Many marketers used to leverage the visually appealing Wonder Wheel for new content ideas as well as a tool for keyword research, which gave contextually …
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