tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44538703060843474212024-03-13T12:12:38.865-07:00Upesh RajakWeb & SEO Analyst & Online Internent Marketing ExecutivesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-8424622217350789112014-07-31T08:08:00.000-07:002014-07-31T08:08:16.834-07:00Google’s 200 Ranking Factors: The Complete List<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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But what the heck are they?</div>
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Well today you're in for a treat because I've put together <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a complete list.</strong></div>
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Some are proven.</div>
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Some are controversial.</div>
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Others are SEO nerd speculation.</div>
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But <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">they're all here</strong>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Domain Age: </strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pnpg00FWJY&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">In this video</a>, Matt Cutts states that:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The difference between a domain that’s six months old verses one year old is really not that big at all.”.</strong></h4>
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In other words, they <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">do</em> use domain age...but it's not very important.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Keyword Appears in Top Level Domain: </strong>Doesn't give the boost that it used to, but having your keyword in the domain still acts as a relevancy signal. After all, they still bold keywords that appear in a domain name.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Keyword As First Word in Domain: </strong><a href="http://www.moz.com/article/search-ranking-factors#metrics" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Moz's 2011 Search Engine Ranking Factors</a> panelists agreed that a domain that starts with their target keyword has an edge over sites that either don't have the keyword in their domain or have the keyword in the middle or end of their domain.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Domain registration length:</strong> A <a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/domain-age-how-important-is-it-for-seo/7296/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google patent</a> states:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Valuable (legitimate) domains are often paid for several years in advance, while doorway (illegitimate) domains rarely are used for more than a year. Therefore, the date when a domain expires in the future can be used as a factor in predicting the legitimacy of a domain".</strong></h4>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Keyword in Subdomain Name: </strong>Moz's panel also agreed that a keyword appearing in the subdomain boosts rank,</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Domain History:</strong> A site with volatile ownership (via whois) or several drops may tell Google to "reset" the site's history, negating links pointing to the domain.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Exact Match Domain: </strong>EMDs may still give you an edge...if it's a quality site. But if the EMD happens to be a low-quality site, it's vulnerable to the <a href="http://searchengineland.com/google-emd-update-research-and-thoughts-137340" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">EMD update</a>:</div>
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“...When I checked the whois on them, they all had “whois privacy protection service” on them. That’s relatively unusual. ...Having whois privacy turned on isn’t automatically bad, but once you get several of these factors all together, you’re often talking about a very different type of webmaster than the fellow who just has a single site or so.”</h4>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Penalized WhoIs Owner: </strong>If Google identifies a particular person as a spammer it makes sense that they would scrutinize other sites owned by that person.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Country TLD extension: </strong>Having a Country Code Top Level Domain (.cn, .pt, .ca) <a href="http://www.visibilitymagazine.com/revenews-com/ct-moore/international-seo--the-ins-and-outs-of-ranking-in-different-countries" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">helps the site rank for that particular country</a>...but limits the site's ability to rank globally.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12. Title Tag Starts with Keyword</strong>: According to <a href="http://www.moz.com/learn-seo/title-tag" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Moz data</a>, title tags that starts with a keyword tend to perform better than title tags with the keyword towards the end of the tag:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">14. Keyword Appears in H1 Tag: </strong>H1 tags are a "second title tag" that sends another relevancy signal to Google, according to results from <a href="http://cbutterworth.com/do-h1-tags-still-help-seo/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">this correlation study</a>:</div>
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<img alt="" class="center" src="http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/8/005/077/376/29d8da6.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 606px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">15. Keyword is Most Frequently Used Phrase in Document:</strong> Having a keyword appear more than any other likely acts as a relevancy signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">16. Content Length: </strong>Content with more words can cover a wider breadth and are likely preferred to shorter superficial articles. SERPIQ found that <a href="http://blog.serpiq.com/how-important-is-content-length-why-data-driven-seo-trumps-guru-opinions/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">content length correlated with SERP position</a>:</div>
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<img alt="" class="center" src="http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/6/005/077/376/3529d94.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 606px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17. Keyword Density</strong>: Although not as important as it once was, keyword density is still something Google uses to determine the topic of a webpage. But going overboard can hurt you.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">18. Latent Semantic Indexing Keywords in Content</strong> <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(LSI):</strong> LSI keywords help search engines extract meaning from words with more than one meaning (Apple the computer company vs. the fruit). The presence/absence of LSI probably also acts as a content quality signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">19. LSI Keywords in Title and Description Tags: </strong>As with webpage content, LSI keywords in page meta tags probably help Google discern between synonyms. May also act as a relevancy signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">20. Page Loading Speed via HTML:</strong> Both <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google</a> and <a href="http://www.searchenginenews.com/blog/entry/bings-updated-webmaster-guidelines-focuses-heavily-on-social-signals-page-s" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Bing</a> use page loading speed as a ranking factor. Search engine spiders can estimate your site speed fairly accurately based on a page's code and filesize.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">21. Duplicate Content:</strong> Identical content on the same site (even slightly modified) can<a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">negatively influence</a> a site's search engine visibility.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">22. Rel=Canonical: </strong>When <a href="http://www.moz.com/blog/rel-confused-answers-to-your-rel-canonical-questions" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">used properly</a>, use of this tag may prevent Google from considering pages duplicate content.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">23. Page Loading Speed via Chrome</strong>: Google may also use Chrome user data to get a better handle on a page's loading time as this takes into account server speed, CDN usage and other non HTML-related site speed signals.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">24. Image Optimization: </strong>Images on-page send search engines important relevancy signals through their file name, alt text, title, description and caption.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">25. Recency of Content Updates: </strong><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google Caffeine</a> update favors recently updated content, especially for time-sensitive searches. Highlighting this factor's importance, Google shows the date of a page's last update for certain pages:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">26. Magnitude of Content Updates</strong>: The significance of edits and changes is also a freshness factor. Adding or removing entire sections is a more significant update than switching around the order of a few words.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">27. Historical Updates Page Updates:</strong> How often has the page been updated over time? Daily, weekly, every 5-years? Frequency of page updates also play a role in freshness.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">28. Keyword Prominence</strong>: Having a keyword appear in the first 100-words of a page's content appears to be a significant relevancy signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">29. Keyword in H2, H3 Tags</strong>: Having your keyword appear as a subheading in H2 or H3 format may be another weak relevancy signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">30. Keyword Word Order: </strong>An exact match of a searcher's keyword in a page's content will generally rank better than the same keyword phrase in a different order. For example: consider a search for: "cat shaving techniques". A page optimized for the phrase "cat shaving techniques" will rank better than a page optimized for "techniques for shaving a cat". This is a good illustration of why <a href="http://backlinko.com/keyword-research" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">keyword research</a> is really, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">really</em> important.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">31. Outbound Link Quality</strong>: Many SEOs think that linking out to authority sites helps send trust signals to Google.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">32. Outbound Link Theme: </strong><a href="http://www.moz.com/blog/external-linking-good-for-seo-whiteboard-friday" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">According to Moz</a>, search engines may use the content of the pages you link to as a relevancy signal. For example, if you have a page about cars that links to movie-related pages, this may tell Google that your page is about the movie Cars, not the automobile.</div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">33. Grammar and Spelling: </strong>Proper grammar and spelling is a quality signal, although <a href="http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/webmasters/crawling-indexing--ranking/BvZ7G9MHFqA" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Cutts gave mixed messages</a> in 2011 on whether or not this was important.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">34. Syndicated Content: </strong>Is the content on the page original? If it's scraped or copied from an indexed page it won't rank as well as the original or end up in their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Result#Duplicate_Content" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Supplemental Index</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">35. Helpful Supplementary Content:</strong> According to a <a href="http://backlinko.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/google-guidelines.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">now-public Google Rater Guidelines Document</a>, helpful supplementary content is an indicator of a page's quality (and therefore, Google ranking). Examples include currency converters, loan interest calculators and interactive recipes.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">36. Number of Outbound Links:</strong> Too many dofollow OBLs may "leak" PageRank, which can hurt search visibility.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">37. Multimedia:</strong> Images, videos and other multimedia elements may act as a content quality signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">38. Number of Internal Links Pointing to Page: </strong>The number of internal links to a page indicates its importance relative to other pages on the site.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">39. Quality of Internal Links Pointing to Page</strong>: Internal links from authoritative pages on domain have a stronger effect than pages with no or low PR.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">40. Broken Links: </strong>Having too many broken links on a page may be a sign of a neglected or abandoned site. The Google Rater Guidelines Document uses broken links as one was to assess a homepage's quality.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">41. Reading Level: </strong>There's no doubt that Google estimates the reading level of webpages:</div>
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<img alt="" class="center" src="http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/5/005/077/377/0214874.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 606px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;" />But what they do with that information is up for debate. Some say that a basic reading level will help your page rank because it will appeal to the masses. However, <a href="http://www.linchpinseo.com/seo-reading-level-college-websites" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Linchpin SEO</a>discovered that reading level was one factor that separated quality sites from content mills.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">42. Affiliate Links</strong>: Affiliate links themselves probably won't hurt your rankings. But if you have too many, Google's algorithm may pay closer attention to other quality signals to make sure you're not a "thin affiliate site".</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">43. HTML errors/W3C validation</strong>: Lots of HTML errors or sloppy coding may be a sign of a poor quality site. While controversial, many in SEO think that WC3 validation is a weak quality signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">44. Page Host's Domain Authority</strong>: All things being equal a page on an authoritative domain will higher than a page on a domain with less authority.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">45. Page's PageRank:</strong> Not perfectly correlated. But in general higher PR pages tend to rank better than low PR pages.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">46. URL Length:</strong> <a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/url-structure-seo/11801/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Search Engine Journal</a> notes that excessively long URLs may hurt search visibility.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">47. URL Path</strong>: A page closer to the homepage may get a slight authority boost.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">48. Human Editors: </strong>Although never confirmed, Google has filed <a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US7096214" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a patent</a> for a system that allows human editors to influence the SERPs.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">49. Page Category:</strong> The category the page appears on is a relevancy signal. A page that's part of a closely related category should get a relevancy boost compared to a page that's filed under an unrelated or less related category.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">50. Wordpress Tags: </strong>Tags are Wordpress-specific relevancy signal. According to<a href="http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/#tag-optimizatio" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Yoast.com</a>:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">51. Keyword in URL</strong>: Another important relevancy signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">52. URL String:</strong> The categories in the URL string are read by Google and may provide a thematic signal to what a page is about:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">54. Bullets and Numbered Lists: </strong>Bullets and numbered lists help break up your content for readers, making them more user friendly. Google likely agrees and may prefer content with bullets and numbers.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">55. Priority of Page in Sitemap:</strong> The priority a page is given via the sitemap.xml file may influence ranking.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">56. Too Many Outbound Links:</strong> Straight from the aforementioned Quality rater document:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">57. Quantity of Other Keywords Page Ranks For:</strong> If the page ranks for several other keywords it may give Google an internal sign of quality.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">58. Page Age:</strong> Although Google prefers fresh content, an older page that's regularly updated may outperform a newer page.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">59. User Friendly Layout: </strong>Citing the Google Quality Guidelines Document yet again:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">60. Parked Domains</strong>: A <a href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/12/search-quality-highlights-new-monthly.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google update</a> in December of 2011 decreased search visibility of parked domains.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">61. Useful Content:</strong> As pointed out by Backlinko reader <a href="https://twitter.com/JaredCarrizales" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jared Carrizales</a>, Google <a href="http://www.seroundtable.com/google-quality-vs-useful-17412.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">may distinguish between "quality" and "useful" content</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">63. Contact Us Page: </strong>The aforementioned Google Quality Document states that they prefer sites with an "appropriate amount of contact information". Supposed bonus if your contact information matches your whois info.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">64. Domain Trust/TrustRank: </strong>Site trust -- measured by how many links away your site is from highly-trusted seed sites -- is a massively important ranking factor. You can read more about TrustRank <a href="http://backlinko.com/google-trustrank" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">65. Site Architecture:</strong> A well put-together site architecture (especially a silo structure) helps Google thematically organize your content.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">66. Site Updates:</strong> How often a site is updated -- and especially when new content is added to the site -- is a site-wide freshness factor.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">67. Number of Pages:</strong> The number of pages a site has is a weak sign of authority. At the very least a large site helps distinguish it from thin affiliate sites.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">68. Presence of Sitemap:</strong> A sitemap helps search engines index your pages easier and more thoroughly, improving visibility.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">69. Site Uptime</strong>: Lots of downtime from site maintenance or server issues may hurt your ranking (and can even result in deindexing if not corrected).</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">70. Server Location</strong>: Server location may influence where your site ranks in different geographical regions. Especially important for geo-specific searches.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">71. SSL Certificate (Ecommerce Sites)</strong>: Google has confirmed that they <a href="http://www.seroundtable.com/google-ssl-seo-ranking-13236.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">index SSL certificates</a>. It stands to reason that they'll preferentially rank ecommerce sites with SSL certificates.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">72. Terms of Service and Privacy Pages</strong>: These two pages help tell Google that a site is a trustworthy member of the internet.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">73. Duplicate Meta Information On-Site</strong>: Duplicate meta information across your site may bring down all of your page's visibility.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">74. Breadcrumb Navigation: </strong>This is a style of user-friendly site-architecture that helps users (and search engines) know where they are on a site:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">75. Mobile Optimized: </strong><a href="https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/details" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google's official stance</a> on mobile is to create a responsive site. It's likely that responsive sites get an edge in searches from a mobile device.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">76. YouTube:</strong> There's no doubt that YouTube videos are given preferential treatment in the SERPs (probably because Google owns it ):</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">77. Site Usability: </strong>A site that's difficult to use or to navigate can hurt ranking by reducing time on site, pages viewed and bounce rate. This may be an independent algorithmic factor gleaned from massive amounts of user data.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">78. Use of Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools: </strong>Some think that having these two programs installed on your site can improve your page's indexing. They may also directly influence rank by giving Google more data to work with (ie. more accurate bounce rate, whether or not you get referall traffic from your <a href="http://backlinko.com/17-untapped-backlink-sources" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">backlinks</a> etc.).</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">79. User reviews/Site reputation:</strong> A site's on review sites like Yelp.com and RipOffReport.com likely play an important role in the algorithm. Google even posted <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/being-bad-to-your-customers-is-bad-for.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a rarely candid outline</a> of their approach to user reviews after an eyeglass site was caught ripping off customers in an effort to get backlinks.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">81. # of Linking Root Domains:</strong> The number of referring domains is one of the most important ranking factors in Google's algorithm, as you can see from this chart from <a href="http://www.moz.com/blog/guide-to-competitive-backlink-analysis" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Moz</a>(bottom axis is SERP position):</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">83. # of Linking Pages</strong>: The total number of linking pages -- even if some are on the same domain -- is a ranking factor.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">84. Alt Tag (for Image Links)</strong>: Alt text is an image's version of anchor text.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">85. Links from .edu or .gov Domains</strong>: Matt Cutts <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxTmZulcQZ0&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">has stated</a> that TLD doesn't factor into a site's importance. However, that doesn't stop SEOs from thinking that there's a special place in the algo for .gov and .edu TLDs.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">86. PR of Linking Page: </strong>The PageRank of the referring page is an extremely important ranking factor.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">87. Authority of Linking Domain</strong>: The referring domain's authority may play an independent role in a link's importance (ie. a PR2 page link from a site with a homepage PR3 may be worth less than a PR2 page link from PR8 Yale.edu).</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">88. Links From Competitors:</strong> Links from other pages ranking in the same SERP may be more valuable for a page's rank for that particular keyword.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">89. Social Shares of Referring Page</strong>: The amount of page-level social shares may influence the link's value.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">90. Links from Bad Neighborhoods:</strong> Links from "bad neighborhoods" <a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2200751/Can-You-Identify-Link-Networks-Bad-Neighborhoods" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">may hurt your site</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">91. Guest Posts:</strong> Although guest posting can be part of a <a href="http://backlinko.com/white-hat-seo" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">white hat SEO campaign</a>, links coming from guest posts -- especially in an author bio area -- may not be as valuable as a contextual link on the same page.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">92. Links to Homepage Domain that Page Sits On:</strong> Links to a referring page's homepage may play special importance in evaluating a site's -- and therefore a link's -- weight.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">93. Nofollow Links: </strong>One of the most controversial topics in SEO. <a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google's official word</a> on the matter is:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"In general, we don't follow them."</strong></h4>
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Which suggests that they <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">do...</em>at least in certain cases. Having a certain % of nofollow links may also indicate a natural vs. unnatural link profile.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">94. Diversity of Link Types:</strong> Having an unnaturally large percentage of your links come from a single source (ie. forum profiles, blog comments) may be a sign of webspam. On the other hand, links from diverse sources is a sign of a natural link profile.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">95. "Sponsored Links" Or Other Words Around Link: </strong>Words like "sponsors", "link partners" and "sponsored links" may decrease a link's value.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">96. Contextual Links: </strong>Links embedded inside a page's content are considered more powerful than links on an empty page or found elsewhere on the page.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">97. Excessive 301 Redirects to Page: </strong>Links coming from 301 redirects dilute some (or even all) PR, according to a <a href="http://www.stateofsearch.com/matt-cutts-there-is-no-limit-to-direct-301-redirects-there-is-on-chains/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Webmaster Help Video</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">98. Backlink Anchor Text</strong>: As noted in <a href="http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">this description</a> of Google's original algorithm:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"First, anchors often provide more accurate descriptions of web pages than the pages themselves."</strong></h4>
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Obviously, anchor text is less important than before (and likely a webspam signal). But it still sends a strong relevancy signal in small doses.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">99. Internal Link Anchor Text</strong>: Internal link anchor text is another relevancy signal, although probably weighed differently than backlink anchor text.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">100. Link Title Attribution</strong>: The link title (the text that appears when you hover over a link) is also used as a weak relevancy signals.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">101. Country TLD of Referring Domain:</strong> Getting links from country-specific top level domain extensions (.de, .cn, .co.uk) may help you rank better in that country.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">102. Link Location In Content: </strong>Links in the beginning of a piece of content carry slight more weight than links placed at the end of the content.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">103. Link Location on Page:</strong> Where a link appears on a page is important. Generally, links embedded in a page's content are more powerful than links in the footer or sidebar area.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">104. Linking Domain Relevancy:</strong> A link from site in a similar niche is significantly more powerful than a link from a completely unrelated site. That's why any <a href="http://backlinko.com/seo-strategy" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">effective SEO strategy</a>today focuses on obtaining <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">relevant</em> links.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">105. Page Level Relevancy:</strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilltop_algorithm" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Hilltop Algorithm</a> states that link from a page that's closely tied to page's content is more powerful than a link from an unrelated page.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">106. Text Around Link Sentiment: </strong>Google has <a href="http://www.moz.com/blog/how-negative-emotion-could-hurt-your-rankings" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">probably figured out</a> whether or not a link to your site is a recommendation or part of a negative review. Links with positive sentiments around them likely carry more weight.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">107. Keyword in Title: </strong>Google gives extra love to links on pages that contain your page's keyword in the title ("Experts linking to experts".)</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">108. Positive Link Velocity: </strong>A site with positive link velocity usually gets a SERP boost.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">109. Negative Link Velocity:</strong> Negative link velocity can significantly reduce rankings as it's a signal of decreasing popularity.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">110. Links from "Hub" Pages:</strong> <a href="http://www.seobook.com/archives/000626.shtml" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Aaron Wall claims</a> that getting links from pages that are considered top resources (or hubs) on a certain topic are given special treatment.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">111. Link from Authority Sites: </strong>A link from a site considered an "authority site" likely pass more juice than a link from a small, microniche site.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">112. Linked to as Wikipedia Source: </strong>Although the links are nofollow, many think that getting a link from Wikipedia gives you a little added trust and authority in the eyes of search engines.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">113. Co-Occurrences: </strong>The words that tend to appear around your backlinks <a href="http://www.moz.com/blog/prediction-anchor-text-is-dying-and-will-be-replaced-by-cocitation-whiteboard-friday" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">helps tell Google what that page is about</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">114. Backlink Age:</strong> According to <a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/backlink-age-seo-factor/9943/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a Google patent</a>, older links have more ranking power than newly minted backlinks.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">115. Links from Real Sites vs. Splogs: </strong>Due to the proliferation of blog networks, Google probably gives more weight to links coming from "real sites" than from fake blogs. They likely use brand and user-interaction signals to distinguish between the two.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">116. Natural Link Profile: </strong>A site with a "natural" link profile is going to rank highly and be more durable to updates.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">117. Reciprocal Links: </strong><a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google's Link Schemes</a> page lists "Excessive link exchanging" as a link scheme to avoid.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">118. User Generated Content Links:</strong> Google is able to identify links generated from UGC vs. the actual site owner. For example, they know that a link from the official Wordpress.com blog at en.blog.wordpress.com is <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">very</em> different than a link from besttoasterreviews.wordpress.com.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">119. Links from 301:</strong> Links from 301 redirects may lose a little bit of juice compared to a direct link. However, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Filv4pP-1nw" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Matt Cutts says</a> that a 301 is the similar to a direct link.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">120. Schema.org Microformats: </strong>Pages that support microformats may rank above pages without it. This may be a direct boost or the fact that pages with microformatting have a higher SERP CTR:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">122. Yahoo! Directory Listed: </strong>The algorithm might also have a special place for the Yahoo! Directory, considering how long it's been cataloging sites.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">123. Number of Outbound Links on Page:</strong> PageRank is finite. A link on a page with hundreds of OBLs passes less PR than a page with only a few OBLs.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">124. Forum Profile Links: </strong>Because of industrial-level spamming, Google may significantly devalue links from forum profiles.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">125. Word Count of Linking Content: </strong>A link from a 1000-word post is more valuable than a link inside of a 25-word snippet.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">126. Quality of Linking Content: </strong>Links from poorly written or spun content don't pass as much value as links from well-written, multimedia-enhanced content.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">127. Sitewide Links:</strong> Matt Cutts <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTjN9x-by-I&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">has confirmed</a> that sitewide links are "compressed" to count as a single link.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">129. Organic CTR for All Keywords</strong>: A page's (or site's) organic CTR for all keywords is ranks for may be a human-based, user interaction signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">130. Bounce Rate: </strong>Not everyone in SEO agrees bounce rate matters, but it may be a way of Google to use their users as quality testers (pages where people quickly bounce is probably not very good).</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">131. Direct Traffic: </strong>It's confirmed that <a href="http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/ex-google-employee-brighton-seo/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google uses data from Google Chrome</a> to determine whether or not people visit a site (and how often). Sites with lots of direct traffic are likely higher quality than sites that get very little direct traffic.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">132. Repeat Traffic</strong>: They may also look at whether or not users go back to a page or site after visiting. Sites with repeat visitors may get a Google ranking boost.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">133. Blocked</strong> <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sites</strong>: Google has discontinued this feature in Chrome. However, <a href="http://searchengineland.com/google-rolls-out-its-panda-update-internationally-and-begins-incorporating-searcher-blocking-data-72497" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Panda used this feature</a> as a quality signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">134. Chrome Bookmarks:</strong> We know that Google <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5763452/what-data-does-chrome-send-to-google-about-me" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">collects Chrome browser usage data</a>. Pages that get bookmarked in Chrome might get a boost.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">135. Google Toolbar Data: </strong>Search Engine Watch's Danny Goodwin reports <a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2050006/Google-Finally-Admits-Toolbar-Data-is-a-Ranking-Signal" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">that Google uses toolbar data</a> as a ranking signal. However, besides page loading speed and malware, it's not know what kind of data they glean from the toolbar.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">136. Number of Comments: </strong>Pages with lots of comments may be a signal of user-interaction and quality.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">137. Dwell Time: </strong>Google pays very close attention to "dwell time": how long people spend on your page when coming from a Google search. This is also sometimes referred to as "long clicks vs short clicks". If people spend a lot of time on your site, that may be used as a quality signal.</div>
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<img alt="" class="center" src="http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/8/005/077/378/0f28307.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 606px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">138. Query Deserves Freshness: </strong>Google gives newer pages a boost <a href="http://www.moz.com/blog/whiteboard-friday-query-deserves-freshness" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">for certain searches</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">139. Query Deserves Diversity:</strong> Google may <a href="http://www.moz.com/blog/does-query-deserves-diversity-algorithm-exist-at-google" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">add diversity to a SERP</a> for ambiguous keywords, such as "Ted", "WWF" or "ruby".</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">140. User Browsing History</strong>: Sites that you frequently visit while signed into Google get a SERP bump for your searches.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">141. User Search History: </strong>Search chain <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/5/3602350/google-customized-search-results-obama-romney" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">influence search results for later searches</a>. For example, if you search for "reviews" then search for "toasters", Google is more likely to show toaster review sites higher in the SERPs.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">142. Geo Targeting: </strong>Google gives preference to sites with a local server IP and country-specific domain name extension.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">143. Safe Search:</strong> Search results with curse words or adult content won't appear for people with Safe Search turned on.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">146. Domain Diversity</strong>: The so-called "<a href="http://www.moz.com/blog/the-bigfoot-update-aka-dr-pete-goes-crazy" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Bigfoot Update</a>" supposedly added more domains to each SERP page.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">147. Transactional Searches</strong>: Google sometimes displays different results for shopping-related keywords, like flight searches.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">148. Local Searches: </strong>Google often places Google+ Local results above the "normal" organic SERPs.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">151. Shopping Results: </strong>Google sometimes displays Google Shopping results in organic SERPs.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">152. Image Results:</strong> Google elbows our organic listings for image results for searches commonly used on Google Image Search.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">153. Easter Egg Results: </strong>Google has a dozen or so <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_hoaxes_and_easter_eggs#Search_Engine" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Easter Egg results</a>. For example, when you search for "Atari Breakout" in Google image search, the search results turn into a playable game (!). Shout out to <a href="https://twitter.com/victorpan" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Victor Pan</a> for this one.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">154. Single Site Results for Brands:</strong> Domain or brand-oriented keywords bring up <a href="http://searchengineland.com/google-now-showing-3-or-more-results-from-same-domain-49066" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">several results from the same site</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">156. Authority of Twitter Users Accounts</strong>: It's likely that Tweets coming from aged, authority Twitter profiles with a ton of followers (like Justin Bieber) have more of an effect than tweets from new, low-influence accounts.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">157. Number of Facebook Likes</strong>: Although Google <a href="http://www.brafton.com/news/seo-success-in-2013-beyond-matt-cutts-insights-at-smx" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">can't see most Facebook accounts</a>, it's likely they consider the number of Facebook likes a page receives as a weak ranking signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">158. Facebook Shares: </strong>Facebook shares -- because they're more similar to a backlink --<a href="http://www.moz.com/blog/does-google-use-facebook-shares-to-influence-search-rankings" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">may have a stronger influence than Facebook likes</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">159. Authority of Facebook User Accounts:</strong> As with Twitter, Facebook shares and likes coming from popular Facebook pages may pass more weight.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">160. Pinterest Pins: </strong>Pinterest is an insanely popular social media account with lots of public data. It's probably that Google considers Pinterest Pins a social signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">161. Votes on Social Sharing Sites: </strong>It's possible that Google uses shares at sites like Reddit, Stumbleupon and Digg as another type of social signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">162. Number of Google+1's: </strong>Although Matt Cutts gone on the record as saying Google+ has "<a href="http://www.webpronews.com/the-google-1-button-has-no-direct-effect-on-rankings-2012-10" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">no direct effect</a>" on rankings, it's hard to believe that they'd ignore their own social network.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">163. Authority of Google+ User Accounts: </strong>It's logical that Google would weigh +1's coming from authoritative accounts more than from accounts without many followers.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">165. Social Signal Relevancy: </strong>Google probably uses relevancy information from the account sharing the content and the text surrounding the link.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">166. Site Level Social Signals:</strong> Site-wide social signals may increase a site's overall authority, which will increase search visibility for all of its pages.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">168. Branded Searches: </strong>It's simple: people search for brands. If people search for your site in Google (ie. "Backlinko twitter", Backlinko + "ranking factors"), Google likely takes this into consideration when determining a brand.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">169. Site Has Facebook Page and Likes: </strong>Brands tend to have Facebook pages with lots of likes.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">170. Site has Twitter Profile with Followers: </strong>Twitter profiles with a lot of followers signals a popular brand.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">171. Official Linkedin Company Page: </strong>Most real businesses have company Linkedin pages.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">172. Employees Listed at Linkedin: </strong><a href="http://www.moz.com/blog/the-next-generation-of-ranking-signals" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Rand Fishkin thinks</a> that having Linkedin profiles that say they work for your company is a brand signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">173. Legitimacy of Social Media Accounts: </strong>A social media account with 10,000 followers and 2 posts is probably interpreted <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a lot</strong> differently than another 10,000-follower strong account with lots of interaction.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">174. Brand Mentions on News Sites</strong>: Really big brands get mentioned on Google News sites all the time. In fact, some brands even have their own Google News feed on the first page.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">175. Co-Citations</strong>: Brands get mentioned without getting linked to. Google likely looks at non-hyperlinked brand mentions as a brand signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">176. Number of RSS Subscribers: </strong>Considering that Google <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">owns the popular Feedburner RSS service</a>, it makes sense that they would look at RSS Subscriber data as a popularity/brand signal.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">177. Brick and Mortar Location With Google+ Local Listing: </strong>Real businesses have offices. It's possible that Google fishes for location-data to determine whether or not a site is a big brand.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">178. Website is Tax Paying Business:</strong> <a href="http://www.moz.com/article/search-ranking-factors#metrics-3" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Moz reports</a> that Google may look at whether or not a site is associated with a tax-paying business.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">180. Links to Bad Neighborhoods: </strong>Linking out to "bad neighborhoods" -- like pharmacy or payday loan sites -- may hurt your search visibility.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">181. Redirects: </strong>Sneaky redirects <a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66355" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">is a big no-no</a>. If caught, it can get a site not just penalized, but de-indexed.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">182. Popups or Distracting Ads: </strong>The official <a href="http://pdfcast.org/pdf/google-guidelines" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google Rater Guidelines Document</a> says that popups and distracting ads is a sign of a low-quality site.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">183. Site Over-Optimization: </strong>Includes on-page factors like keyword stuffing, header tag stuffing, excessive keyword decoration.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">184. Page Over-Optimizaton: </strong>Many people report that -- unlike Panda -- Penguin targets individual page (and even then just for certain keywords).</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">185. Ads Above the Fold</strong>: The "<a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/page-layout-algorithm-improvement.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Page Layout Algorithm</a>" penalizes sites with lots of ads (and not much content) above the fold.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">186. Hiding Affiliate Links: </strong>Going too far when trying to hide affiliate links (especially with cloaking) can bring on a penalty.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">187. Affiliate Sites: </strong>It's no secret that Google <a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=76465" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">isn't the biggest fan of affiliates</a>. And many think that sites that monetize with affiliate links are put under extra scrutiny.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">188. Autogenerated Content: </strong>Google <a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2721306" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">isn't a big fan</a> of autogenerated content. If they suspect that your site's pumping out computer-generated content, it could result in a penalty or de-indexing.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">189. Excess PageRank Sculpting: </strong>Going too far with <a href="http://searchengineland.com/pagerank-sculpting-is-dead-long-live-pagerank-sculpting-21102" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PageRank sculpting</a> -- by nofollowing all outbound links or most internal links -- may be a sign of gaming the system.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">190. IP Address Flagged as Spam:</strong> If your server's IP address is flagged for spam, <a href="http://www.seoinc.com/seo-blog/dedicated-ip-address-to-improve-google-seo/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">it may hurt all of the sites on that server</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">191. Meta Tag Spamming:</strong> Keyword stuffing can also happen in meta tags. If Google thinks you're adding keywords to your meta tags to game the algo, they may hit your site.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">193. Penguin Penalty: </strong>Sites that were hit by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Penguin" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google Penguin</a> are significantly less visible in search.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">194. Link Profile with High % of Low Quality Links:</strong> Lots of links from sources commonly used by black hat SEOs (like blog comments and forum profiles) may be a sign of gaming the system.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">195. Linking Domain Relevancy:</strong> The famous analysis by <a href="http://www.micrositemasters.com/blog/penguin-analysis-seo-isnt-dead-but-you-need-to-act-smarter-and-5-easy-ways-to-do-so/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">MicroSiteMasters.com</a> found that sites with an unnaturally high amount of links from unrelated sites were more susceptible to Penguin.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">196. Unnatural Links Warning: </strong>Google sent out thousands of "Google Webmaster Tools notice of detected unnatural links" messages. This usually precedes a ranking drop, although<a href="http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/XNBqi7n-UEk" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">not 100% of the time</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">197. Links from the Same Class C IP</strong>: Getting an unnatural amount of links from sites on the same server IP may be a sign of blog network link building.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">198. "Poison" Anchor Text: </strong>Having "poison" anchor text (especially pharmacy keywords) pointed to your site may be a sign of spam or a hacked site. Either way, it can hurt your site's ranking.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">199. Manual Penalty:</strong> Google has been known to hand out manual penalties, like in the well-publicized <a href="http://searchengineland.com/google-says-no-comment-on-why-interflora-was-penalized-149308" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Interflora fiasco</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">200. Selling Links:</strong> Selling links can definitely impact <a href="http://searchengineland.com/google-reminds-webmasters-selling-links-can-lead-to-pagerank-penalty-131615" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">toolbar PageRank</a> and may hurt your search visibility.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">201. Google Sandbox:</strong> New sites that get a sudden influx of links are sometimes put in the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_effect" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google Sandbox</a>, which temporarily limits search visibility.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">202. Google Dance:</strong> The Google Dance can temporarily shake up rankings. According to a<a href="http://www.seobythesea.com/2012/08/google-rank-modifying-spammers-patent/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #7b539d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google Patent</a>, this may be a way for them to determine whether or not a site is trying to game the algorithm.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">203. Disavow Tool: </strong>Use of the Disavow Tool may remove a manual or algorithmic penalty for sites that were the victims of negative SEO.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">204. Reconsideration Request</strong>: A successful reconsideration request can lift a penalty.</div>
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Each year, Google changes its search algorithm around 500–600 times. While most of these changes are minor, every few months Google rolls out a “major” algorithmic update that affects search results in significant ways.</div>
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For search marketers, knowing the dates of these Google updates can help explain changes in rankings and organic website traffic. Below, we’ve listed the major algorithmic changes that made the biggest impacts on search. Understanding these updates can help with search engine optimization.</div>
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In a world where attention is currency, it's becoming increasingly more difficult to attract the eyes and ears of your target market. Not only are you up against larger companies with nicely funded marketing departments, you're also competing with <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/socialmedia/index.html" style="color: #365977; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">social media</a> and a multitude of other distractions for the attention of your prospects.</div>
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But that doesn't mean your <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/marketing/index.html" style="color: #365977; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">marketing</a> efforts have to cost a ton of money or be overly dramatic in order to stand out from the crowd. Here are five creative and <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/money-savers" style="color: #365977; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">inexpensive ways</a> to market your business in a digital world:</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">1. Get endorsed by a local celebrity.</strong></div>
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<b><br /></b>Many business owners dream of having their product or service endorsed by a global celebrity. But instead of trying to get a superstar to support your business, try seeking out a local celebrity instead.</div>
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Who exactly are local celebrities? These are people your local paper is writing about -- perhaps an "unsung hero" such as a teacher or a resident who's doing something positive and newsworthy. Since they're in your neighborhood, these people should be relatively easy to locate and contact by phone or e-mail. Let them know you'd like to send them a gift, namely your product or service.</div>
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The only catch: you'd like to follow up with them in a few days to get their honest feedback. Their responses can make for useful blog or marketing content.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Related: <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/224651" style="color: #365977; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">7 Tips For Building a 'Power Network' on LinkedIn</a></strong></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">2. Create a LinkedIn group.</strong></div>
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<b><br /></b>Not only is a LinkedIn group free to create, it can enable you to offer your professional network a vibrant, useful information resource all while driving traffic to your site and increasing sales. Just don't use the platform to hard sell anyone.</div>
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It can take time and effort to get one going, but the goal should be to help provide resources and start discussions on topics that can benefit your community. Groups should also be a place for your members to network with other professionals online.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">3. Get published on niche blogs.</strong></div>
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<b><br /></b>While it may be difficult to get on the front cover of a major magazine, you can create marketing opportunities by being featured in a popular niche blog. Identify three to five blogs that target your market then contact the creator and offer a few ideas of how you'd like to bring value to his or her readers. You can:</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Demonstrate good will by offering the niche blog owner a small amount of your product or service for free, which they can give away to their audience as a gift. This is different than a product review, which only offers information. </li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Send ideas for blog posts you'd like to write and explain why they would be helpful for their readers.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Ask if you can interview them for your site. This might entice the blog manager to promote your content since it highlights his or her business.</li>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Related: <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/226103" style="color: #365977; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">3 Tips for Maximizing YouTube's New Layout for Brand Channels</a><br /><br />4. Create videos for YouTube.</strong></div>
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<b><br /></b>With more than 800 million unique visitors a month, YouTube can be a powerful platform for marketing a business online. To do so, go beyond simply posting random videos of your product or sharing your thoughts.<br /><br />The marketing videos you create should include the following elements:</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">A keyword-researched headline</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">A clear editorial message (don't try to accomplish too much in one video)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">A call to action (tell the viewer to do something, such as subscribing to your channel)</li>
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While you can spend a small fortune on cameras, lighting equipment and editing software, the camera built into your smartphone should be able to capture suitable online video. As for editing, if you're on a Mac, for instance, you should already have iMovie in your applications. Even if you don't have a Mac you can find free software online or hire a professional editor on sites such as <a href="http://fiverr.com/" style="color: #365977; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Fiverr.com</a>, possibly for as little as $5 depending on the scope of the work.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">5. Write an e-book about the biggest issues in your industry.</strong></div>
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<b><br /></b>No longer do you need a publishing company or thousands of dollars to get distribution for a book. Amazon, for instance, will let you upload a digital book for free, with a 33 percent take on every sale. The goal is not to make a profit from direct book sales but to use it as a lead generation tool, encouraging readers to opt into your website for further information.</div>
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Even time-strapped entrepreneurs who aren't great writers should consider this. You can search sites like E-lance or Odesk to hire an affordable ghostwriter who can help you convert your blog posts or audio recordings into book format.</div>
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When it comes to marketing your book, set the price between $1 and $5 -- which makes it affordable -- then use social media, video marketing and e-mail list marketing to promote it. To generate more leads, keep in mind that Amazon allows prospective buyers of your book to take a sneak peek of the first few pages. Be sure to embed links into these early pages so you can capture leads from people who were interested but didn't wind up buying your book.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-90404290764405583682013-08-21T08:18:00.001-07:002013-08-21T08:18:23.485-07:00Google to kill "Google Adwords External Keyword Research tool", to launch Keyword Planner for webmasters soon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Google continues to kill it’s old yet popular service tools and this time it is the closure of the popular tool for webmasters, Google Adwords External Keyword Research Tool. Although the exact date for shut down is not yet confirmed but it is expected that the tech giant will replace it with a new program called Keyword Planner.</div>
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The free tool is commonly used by webmasters to check statistical data such as keyword search volume, estimated traffic volume and average cost per click for their websites and has even proved useful for determining specific keywords with which webmasters can post Search Engine Optimization and pay-per-click campaigns. The biggest difference between both the tools will be structure with the existing tool containing a number of disjoined workflows. Once the changes takes place, webmasters will be required to create advertiser accounts. Although there aren’t any details on the new Planner from Google, the Keyword Planner will definitely help advertisers to create PPC ad groups and ad campaigns as fast as possible.</div>
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With older tools closing down, Google has definitely beefed up its routine up gradation of its tools with replacements rather than just an update.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Users </span><a href="http://www.google.com/think/research-studies/creating-moments-that-matter.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">tell us</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> they use smartphones to search online because it’s quick and convenient, but today’s average mobile page typically </span><a href="http://analytics.blogspot.com/2013/04/is-web-getting-faster.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">takes more than 7 seconds to load</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. Wouldn’t it be great if mobile pages loaded in under one second? Today we’re announcing new </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/mobile" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">guidelines</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and an updated </span><a href="http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">PageSpeed Insights tool</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> to help webmasters optimize their mobile pages for best rendering performance.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Research </span><a href="http://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-limits/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">shows</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> that users’ flow is interrupted if pages take longer than one second to load. To deliver the best experience and keep the visitor engaged, our guidelines focus on rendering some content, known as the above-the-fold content, to users in one second (or less!) while the rest of the page continues to load and render in the background. The above-the-fold HTML, CSS, and JS is known as the </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV1nKLWoARQ" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">critical rendering path</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We can achieve sub-second rendering of the above-the-fold content on mobile networks by applying the following best practices:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">These are explained in more details in the </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/mobile" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">mobile-specific help pages</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, and, when you’re ready, you can test your pages and the improvements you make using the </span><a href="http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">PageSpeed Insights</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">tool.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As always, if you have any questions or feedback, please post in our </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/page-speed-discuss" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">discussion group</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-75656451240655585832012-12-13T03:51:00.001-08:002012-12-13T03:51:56.605-08:007 Reasons Why You Need to Get on Google+ Today<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It doesn’t take long after you test the waters of social media to find there are a host of advantages for individuals and businesses. If you’ve witnessed what sites like Facebook or LinkedIn can do for you, then you are going to love Google+. If you haven’t signed up yet, or don’t even know what it’s all about, here is a short description in addition to just a few important points that describe some of its benefits.</div>
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<strong>What is Google+?</strong></div>
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Google+ is a social network and profile listing owned by Google and launched last year that’s already nearing a half a billion users. Those on Google+ are able to add people to their circle of friends, share content, post statuses and send messages. Closely tied to your Google email account and profile, the platform ties into all of the search engine giant’s many prominent features, from local search to trending content.</div>
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Now onto why you should use it.</div>
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<strong>1. Connect with Important People</strong></div>
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Remember the first day, you set up your Facebook page and couldn’t believe how quickly you were able to connect with everyone from long-lost friends to distant family members? Google+ makes it easy to make connections with a much wider pool of individuals and helps to classify your relationships based on how you interact. In business and in life, connections are everything, and Google+ is a great way to establish yours on the Web.<span id="more-2738"></span></div>
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<strong>2. Find More Relevant Content</strong></div>
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To find the core of everything that Google+ is about, you need to look no further than the Google search engine. With the infrastructure of that powerful instrument already in place, Google+ is able to better connect you more accurately with the content that you’ll value most. The more you use G+, the more it not only becomes intuitive to your needs but helps other users you are connected with locate the goods, services or content you produced.</div>
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<strong>3. Your Own Personal Spotlight</strong></div>
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Even better than liking something on Facebook, Google+’s “+1″ feature allows you to shine a light on the content you want to draw attention to. So if you published an article on an important blog or your business was featured in a prominent review, +1 is a simple and effective way to spread the news. The real bonus in this regard, however, is your +1 serves to ultimately boost the overall relevance rating of the content you selected.</div>
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<strong>4. Perspective on What’s Popular</strong></div>
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When you +1 something on Google+, you can allow select individuals from your circle to see what you are interested in or promoting. When someone in one of your circles does the same, you gain insight into what’s popular and resonating within your community of friends or valued clients. The more pluses a story, product or review receives, the easier it is for the search engine to identify it as important, giving your circle of friends the desirable ability to carry influence online.</div>
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<strong>5. Improve Your SEO and Page Rankings</strong></div>
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While traditional SEO still remains in play whether you have a blog or e-commerce website, Google +1 gives you a new tool to boost your rankings. By adding a +1 to spread the word about an article you posted to a blog or a positive product review, you are spreading awareness between your circles. The more people you are linked to, and in turn give your content the Plus One endorsement, the higher the impact to your search engine standing in terms of importance and authority over a given subject.</div>
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<strong>6. Own Your Content</strong></div>
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One of the problems with the Internet is it’s hard to get credit for the content you produce, and even more difficult to keep it from being stolen and reproduced. Google+ is the new, more effective way to put your name on what you make, and represent the overall authorship you have online. The better the content, the more prolific, and the more followers, the stronger your author rank.</div>
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<strong>7. Incredible Potential</strong></div>
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As previously stated, there are already more than 400 million registered users on Google+, with about a quarter of those active on a regular basis. As that number continues to grow with Google’s pervasive influence, being well established on G+ gives you access to an unlimited pool of connections, clients or customers. So, whether you are building your following as a blogger or selling <a href="http://k-log.com/student_furniture.asp/" style="color: #1a712e; text-decoration: initial;">classroom furniture</a> to privately run schools, Google+ can help you find your audience.</div>
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While these seven reasons for getting on Google+ are compelling enough, it’s impossible to break down all the advantages in a single article. Just know if you want to be traveling on the same train as the most powerful entity on the Web, G+ is your ticket to ride.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-61631479844637785192012-12-12T19:38:00.001-08:002012-12-12T19:40:29.328-08:005 Mind-Blowing SEO Tools Every Industry Expert Needs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-style: inherit; line-height: 22px;">The various delegates at the recently held SES conference spoke about the importance of </span><span style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1;">SEO tools to improve rankings on search engines</span><span style="color: #444444; font-style: inherit; line-height: 22px;">. It was evident from the discussion that the shift towards authentic SEO tools is brisk and widespread. This is especially the case with </span><span style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1;">Google algorithm updates becoming an increasingly regularly feature in the industry</span><span style="color: #444444; font-style: inherit; line-height: 22px;">. The shift is being adopted by the SEO community via such methods as keyword research, monitoring visitors’ behavior back link and link profile analysis, monitoring rankings, and others.</span></span></span></h1>
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In an endeavor to be authentic while still giving a thrust to the rankings, newer and even more innovative methods are now entering the SEO space. This post endeavors towards appraising professionals at all levels of the best ones out there:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BuzzStream</strong></h2>
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Link / Blog Prospecting and Outreach / Communication Management</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why It’s Awesome: </strong> The first reason is because everyone is falling in love with it, put simply it is just popular. BuzzStream allows you to create your marketing campaigns with various inbound marketing channels. Users can take notice of the number of micro-influencers having conversations related to their products and services, and across a wide swath of the social web world.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unique Factor:</strong> There’s a two dimensional benefits to be had with <a href="http://www.buzzstream.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #8db232; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">BuzzStream</a>. First, users can build strong relations with the other influencers through via campaigns. Secondly, the user actually become easily find-able by via targeted customers, too.</div>
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Available on Google Chrome. This is a tool that I have used for a long time.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why It’s Awesome: </strong>It reduces your efforts of checking each webpage for broken links. In other words, you can launch the application and it will crawl through your complete webpage and look for broken links. For instance, if have a bunch of links to check when you are in the process of editing, <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/check-my-links/ojkcdipcgfaekbeaelaapakgnjflfglf" style="border: 0px; color: #8db232; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">this tool</a> can be a boon to save you of the laborious job of checking them manually.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unique Factor: </strong> The above image reflects to you how links are represented on the screen for a quick and handy reference. All comments are highlighted on the same page with percentage of broken links evidently on the screen.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong>See your site like a search engine sees it.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why It’s awesome: </strong>Once you use the tool for the first time you’ll recognize the power behind it. When we make a website, we check for its compatibility on different browsers; however, sometimes even seasoned pros tend to forget about a site’s compatibility with the search engines.</div>
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Have you ever thought about how your site is seen by the search Google, Bing, Yahoo!, or another search platform? <a href="http://www.seo-browser.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #8db232; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">SEO-Browser</a> is here to show users exactly that. It shows each part of a webpage’s content, images, and other elements exactly in terms of how they are viewed by the particular search engine.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Uniuqe Factor: </strong>This is unique because the users can know which parts of their sites are making the most impact and which ones are not being read by the search engines as desired. This is a feat that is difficult to be achieved through any manual process.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-4557118015275573172012-12-12T04:53:00.001-08:002012-12-12T04:53:30.300-08:00SEO: Social Bookmarking As Key to Success<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="manual_social_bookmarking" src="http://news.submitinme.com/images/manual_social_bookmarking.jpg" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: none; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-right: 10px; vertical-align: middle; width: 200px;" />Are you aware of a particular set of internet users who wish to dig into social bookmarking sites to grab a piece of information, than using the default search engine browsing process? Yes, people have the habit of checking these sites, with the quest of landing up at interesting bookmarks, and they finally reach your site.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you know that bookmarking your website link onto a website that holds a higher page rank, will eventually boost your website’s rank over search engines which in-turn attracts lots of visitors who convert into potential clients of yours. Exciting information is what…Next to banner ads and Adwords, social bookmarking websites is the main source of backlinks aiding visitors flow to a website.</span></big></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; color: teal; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-size: 26px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The process</span></span></big></span></h1>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Social bookmarking is indeed time consuming and a tedious job if you do it yourself. But the resultant is priceless. So we could easily ignore the pains undertaken. Simple to say, the process is saving your bookmarks to a public website along with related keywords as tags.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. The wise approach is to bookmark three types of links. One is to bookmark the webpages of your website, another is bookmarking the webpages that link to your website, and the final one is bookmarking topic related content from other top rated websites. The balance you maintain with the quantity of these three link types is advised to be in a 3:3:4 ratios.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Take for example you chose to bookmark in one of the most famous social bookmarking site – Delicious.com. Create an account and install their browser add-on for an easy access bookmarking pages.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Add a short description about your website and the tags you enter will be your keywords. Note that the default title that you enter should be keyword specific, since this will end-up being your anchor text. The title you enter for your website is the most crucial factor. You get clicks only if the title is catchy, or else you simply get ignored. The same applies to the description part also. Provide unique content in the “Notes” area.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Now go for the bookmarking part, and there is no need for you to bookmark each and every page of your website. Go for the best ones you feel worth sharing. The amount is dependent on the size of your website.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Next go for the other websites that link to your site. Advisable are those top rated website links that point to you. Press Release, Guestblogging, your presentation in Slideshare, YouTube videos, Pinterest, your news article been shared by most people, your brand service appreciated by your customers in their website are some among them.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Finally find your industry related articles published in high ranking websites. Bookmark these articles on your behalf, which requires no need for title alteration except for adding a small quick note relating the topic bookmarked and related tagging done.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Now when every work is done perfect, what I advise is to manually repeat the same process in other social bookmarking sites where you intend to mark presence. Never go for importing or any other automated works, and you will end-up doing a disaster to your efforts.</span></big><br /> </div>
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<o:p></o:p><big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Are you aware that you always have an option to re-bookmark your website’s pages or related articles? Yes, by doing so you can reach at a conclusion of the best title or description or keywords that attracts visitors to your site. Experiment with different forms of representing your business and showcase to people for them to show you the perfect form.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Submitting your content under appropriate categories is vital. If you miss optimizing your content according to the categories your efforts will end up a waste of time. Submit one webpage to only one most apt category. Don’t do numerous bookmarking for a single page with the intent of getting more traffic. Also, if you have a moderately popular brand and when visitors to social bookmarking sites find your brand name displayed over unrelated bookmarks that will the end of them having good-will over your brand. So be careful and attentive while bookmarking your webpages into these popular sites.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No automated bookmarking</span></span></big></h1>
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<o:p></o:p><big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Manual bookmarking is the best approach doing social bookmarking. Don’t go for automated software available in market which does the job in the most trustful manner. Once you go for automated process, and find all wrong categorization done for your webpages, you will get frustrated and tensed when you are pushed to a situation doing manual submission as a correction process. And removing wrong categorization as a whole will be a stressful job for you.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No doing all pages</span></span></big></h1>
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<o:p></o:p><big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Please avoid each and every page of your website. Choose only those which have good content and avoid bookmarking pages that are thin in content. One good content page bookmarked is worth it, rather than doing all available pages, since a visitor landing on your webpage that has no necessary information may no longer pay attention to your website, even if that was the only page lacking good information. You website will gain a black mark in his perspective.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Diversify your bookmarking of pages</span></span></big></h1>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t stop with bookmarking only the main page of your website. You ought to bookmark your websites’ subpages also, the selective and the best ones. This makes your bookmarking process more effective and worth doing.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Proper Title</span></span></big></h1>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Your title represents the quality of information your webpage holds. So never compromise on the quality and uniqueness of your bookmarking titles while doing the process.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Proper keywords</span></span></big></h1>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Keyword selection and tag assigning are also equally important. Be different while doing this. Don’t choose a general keyword for your bookmarked webpage. This pulls people to open your website and explore what it is about.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Proper Content</span></span></big></h1>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bookmarking a webpage that is rich in pictures and graphics, and having no content to display or convince the visitor will be a bad practice. People may not find anything informative on your website and may bunk immediately. So always remember to bookmark a webpage that has a well-written and analyzed article of yours rich in keywords and information for the tag you have chosen.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Make your Bookmarks go viral</span></span></big></h1>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Optimize your website and webpages, so that your book marked pages go viral getting shared by lot many visitors who find your content to be interesting as well as useful. This way you can build up your brand name and increase turn-over out of your business.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Be patient</span></span></big></h1>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Never opt to do the bookmarking process in a hurry, especially on Fridays after 4pm. You are sure to mess up with the title, description and tags. Do it when you are relaxed and passionate enough to work driving traffic. Monday to Wednesday, I suggest.</span></big></div>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-size: 26px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; color: teal; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Top 10 social bookmarking sites</span></span></span></big></h1>
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<big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-size: 26px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; color: teal; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="seo_social_bookmarks" src="http://news.submitinme.com/images/seo_social_bookmarks.jpg" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: none; float: right; height: 315px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-right: 10px; vertical-align: middle; width: 250px;" /></span></span>These are the top social bookmarking sites as of now, depending on the number of visitors to these websites.</span></big><o:p></o:p></div>
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<li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; line-height: 18px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.diigo.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; color: #004d93; margin: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="blank"><big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">www.diigo.com</span></big></a><br /> </li>
<li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; line-height: 18px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.dropjack.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; color: #004d93; margin: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="blank"><big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">www.dropjack.com</span></big></a><br /> </li>
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<li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; line-height: 18px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cloudytags.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; color: #004d93; margin: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="blank"><big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">www.cloudytags.com</span></big></a><br /> </li>
<li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; line-height: 18px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.redgage.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; color: #004d93; margin: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="blank"><big style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px none; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">www.redgage.com</span></big></a><br /> </li>
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PR and marketing firms are stuck between a rock and a hard place.</div>
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Edit Wikipedia on behalf of your client and risk <a href="http://www.ethicalwiki.org/bid/242344/German-court-finds-direct-Wiki-editing-unlawful" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #eb6b03; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">breaking the law</a> or joining a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COI_editing_on_Wikipedia" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #eb6b03; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">long history</a>of publicly humiliated organizations.</div>
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Tell the client there is nothing that can be done, and you ignore arguably the world’s<a href="http://www.ethicalwiki.org/bid/198642/5-reasons-Wikipedia-matters-more-than-you-think" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #eb6b03; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">most important website</a>, while inviting client do-it-yourselfers to add their corporate kool-aid to Wikipedia.</div>
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For many marketing professionals, there is mounting pressure from a boss or client to edit Wikipedia and seemingly no way out of a bad situation.</div>
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Here’s five ways to convince your client or boss that anonymously editing Wikipedia is not the best route.</div>
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1. It may be illegal</h4>
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Wikipedia’s rule that marketing professionals disclose our “conflict of interest” and use Talk pages may also be the law. The Federal Trade Commission’s guidance asks marketing professionals to disclose our affiliation with the organization in online communications.</div>
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In Germany it was found that a CEO’s edits to Wikipedia was an illegal form of covert advertising, even though he disclosed his affiliation with the company on the Talk page. While the FTC hasn’t taken a stance on the issue yet in the US, it’s certainly legal/ethical hot water most organizations don’t want to dip their toes in.</div>
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2. Vengeful editing</h4>
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Even months or years after a company posts promotional content on Wikipedia (which they may have thought was neutral) it’s routine for Wikipedia’s editorial community to add negative information (sometimes unfairly) to help “balance” the page.</div>
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Most Wikipedians aren’t excited about the prospect of spending hours culling through our content, so there’s a simple mantra: “If you do it poorly, I’ll do it poorly too.”</div>
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Once companies have already created bad blood with Wikipedians, it’s very difficult to earn that relationship back or correct the problem. In general, Wikipedians will do what it takes to discourage bad behavior in an efficient way.</div>
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3. There is an ethical way to go</h4>
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Companies edit Wikipedia anonymously often because they didn’t know there was an ethical way to participate. Over-simplified media stories and a lack of general education have led to the assumption that any participation on Wikipedia is unethical and therefor must be done in-secret.</div>
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When companies learn that there is an ethical path by doing PR and content marketing with the site’s editors, rather than astroturfing the page, most companies will take the higher path.</div>
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Why would anyone put their reputations at risk, jump into legal/ethical hot water and anger Wikipedians just to take a shortcut in doing it properly?</div>
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4. Credibility</h4>
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The level of credibility Wikipedia has with its readers is on a per-article basis. Some articles are well-sourced, neutrally written and high in quality; this makes them credible to readers.</div>
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On the other hand, Wikipedia’s readers routinely tell me that they can tell when they found a self-written promotional page and they are quick to dismiss it.</div>
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Companies think they have succeeded when a glowing Wikipedia page is created, but all that’s been accomplished is turning Wikipedia into another of the 200 advertising messages bombarding people every day that are largely ignored.</div>
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5. Wikipedians know you</h4>
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The guardians of many company pages on Wikipedia are journalists, analysts and customers, especially in B2B or niche areas.</div>
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Companies that violate Wikipedia etiquette and do things that anger the editors on their page are often rubbing their largest customer or closest analyst the wrong way.</div>
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Because of Wikipedia’s anonymous model, the company will never know the harm they’ve done. I could name a few companies that think they’re getting away with something, but many of their users are talking about their Wiki activities.</div>
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Wikipedians don’t always take the time to point it out or do anything about it. On the other hand, doing Wikipedia well and ethically often strengthens evangelists who are excited you’ve taken an interest in their side-hobby and demonstrated exceptional character in the manner it was done.</div>
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<a href="http://www.seo-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/seo_exclusive1.jpg" style="color: #1a712e; text-decoration: initial;"></a>There are many marketing strategies to employ when you are trying to garner more traffic for your website. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) remains one of the most prominent promotion methods. SEO allows you, through the use of certain keywords or phrases, to increase your ranking with the search engines on the Internet. This means, when someone types in a word or series of words in a search engine, if it pertains to your topic or pages contain the correct words, your site will turn up in the search. The goal is to be among the top sites viewed so you can increase your traffic. While it is a great marketing approach, there are some SEO mistakes to avoid if you want to keep your site from falling in the rankings.<br />
<strong><br />1. Optimizing One Spot Only</strong></div>
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When you are using keywords and phrases to optimize your website, try to avoid the mistake of only optimizing one page or location. Keep in mind, your site is more than just your home page and the rest of the site needs to be optimized as well. This will help to boost all of your pages in the rankings with search engines and not just one page on your site. It greatly enhances your chances of being located if more than one page of your site is ready for search engine indexing.</div>
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<strong>2. Overusing Keywords</strong></div>
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Some people try to cram as many keywords as possible onto their website or into their pages. This not only makes the page itself look sloppy, it makes it unreadable or too difficult to understand. Overusing the keywords can lead to many awkward sentences and to having a lot of grammar errors for the sake of getting the keywords into the space. Readers can actually be put off by this. They may believe little care or thought was put into the website due to the many errors or illegibility. This may cause them to leave the site all together because they do not want to struggle through it. Try to find a good balance of use of the keywords so that all of your sentences flow together in a coherent, correct manner.</div>
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<strong>3. Not Having Keyword Strategy</strong></div>
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There is much more to SEO than just placing keywords all over your pages. You need to have a strategic plan of exactly what words you are going to use, how you are going to use them, where they are going to go and how often each will appear. Having a plan will make the layout of the page much more effective and it will make it read better for the users who come to your page. If you have a concentration of a small number of keywords in one area, it will be much more effective than having words scattered all over your pages. You want to use the words in a manner that you would expect the user on the other side to use them so that when they search for a word or a phrase, you stand a good chance of having exactly the phrase they have used to search.<br />
<strong><br />4. Using Too Many Images on Your Site</strong></div>
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While many believe people like to see images on your website, the fact is, too many images on your page or using images as links to other content is not something the search engines are designed to pick up, so you will get lost in the shuffle and your rankings will suffer for it. You are much better using a few strategically placed images and going with much more written content that the search engines are designed to index and find. This will improve your ranking and you will be more easily noticed by those searching the Internet.</div>
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<strong>5. Using Broken or Inactive Links</strong></div>
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Many people include links on their website because it helps to create more back links so people will find their site. It can also help to be connected with links to bigger websites – this can help create more traffic for you and improve you search engine ranking. The problem is, many don’t bother to check the links again after putting them up on the page. Some of these links may become inactive or lead nowhere after a while even if you still have them on your site. Search engine indexes are likely to lower your ranking if it notices that many of your links go nowhere. Make it a regular practice to check the links on your site just to make sure they are all active and you can eliminate any bad or broken links.</div>
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<strong>6. Using the Same Title For All Your Pages</strong><br />
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This is a common mistake many people make and do not give much thought to. If a search sees that all of your pages are using the same title, it will assume all of your pages have the same content as well. This will penalize you in the rankings. It is important for you to have individual titles for each of your pages to make each a unique entity of its own. You should try to incorporate keywords into your titles as well because titles are one of the first things a search engine looks at when seeking information.</div>
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Once you have learned what SEO mistakes to avoid, you can go about setting up your site so it stays constantly productive for you. The strategies you use take some work and effort on your part. SEO is not something you can just do once and leave alone, so be prepared to put work into the process if you want to get rewards from it.</div>
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When you think of search engine marketing, we live in a much bigger world than just Google, Yahoo, and Bing.</div>
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At the <a href="http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/chicago/" style="color: #0077cf; outline: none; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago</a>, I sat in on sessions for YouTube and Facebook search optimization.</div>
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Answering what it means to be a search engine optimizer is more complicated than it used to be.</div>
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According to <a href="http://www.alexa.com/topsites" style="color: #0077cf; outline: none; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Alexa</a>, the top three sites are:</div>
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If you are looking to get the most exposure to the biggest audiences, you probably want to seriously consider some sort of campaigns with these sites.</div>
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In this column, I wanted to give you five secrets that you might not know about YouTube search engine optimization. Understanding these secrets could have a big impact on your ranking.</div>
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I got most of these from <a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/3622350" style="color: #0077cf; outline: none; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Greg Jarboe</a> at his session on video optimization. I wanted to give credit where credit is due.</div>
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<strong>Secret #1</strong></div>
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Get key phrase ideas from autocomplete suggestions.</div>
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These are currently searched key phrases at YouTube. If you are looking to make a video about something people are interested in, you definitely want to check out the autocomplete function at YouTube.</div>
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This is incredibly easy key phrase research to do. And you'll likely find some interesting topics to get your video making juices flowing.</div>
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Use the <a href="https://ads.youtube.com/keyword_tool" style="color: #0077cf; outline: none; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">YouTube Keyword Suggestion Tool</a>.</div>
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This is another great place to find ideas for key phrases for your video. You can also put a YouTube video ID in the tool and it will give you suggestions for key phrases to add to your video.</div>
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Use all the allowed space for titles, descriptions, and tags.</div>
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Titles should be about 100 characters.</div>
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Descriptions can include up to 5,000 characters, tags can be 120 characters. Make a goal to use every one of these limits for each of your videos.</div>
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From this YouTube blog <a href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/09/top-tips-for-partners-words-words-words.html" style="color: #0077cf; outline: none; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">post</a>, "The more words you include in your description, the higher your chances of being discovered by searchers, which means the larger your audience can grow, and the more potential revenue you can earn."</div>
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<strong>Secret #4</strong></div>
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Use annotations from this <a href="http://www.socialtimes.com/2010/09/youtube-annotations/" style="color: #0077cf; outline: none; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">blog</a>:</div>
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<li style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 5px 0px 2px 3px;">Encourage viewers to subscribe with an annotated subscribe button.</li>
<li style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 5px 0px 2px 3px;">Use annotations to link to videos, playlists, channels, and more.</li>
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OK. Annotations aren't specifically for search optimization. But they are a great way to get people to either subscribe to your channel or watch another one of your videos.</div>
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<strong>Secret #5</strong></div>
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Try YouTube <a href="https://ads.youtube.com/" style="color: #0077cf; outline: none; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Promoted videos</a>.</div>
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This is paid search for your videos. These are the steps:</div>
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<li style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 5px 0px 2px 3px;">Choose one of your videos, write some promotional text, and tell us which keywords should trigger your promotion.</li>
<li style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 5px 0px 2px 3px;">Using your keywords, your video promotion will now appear next to contextually relevant search results.</li>
<li style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 5px 0px 2px 3px;">When a YouTube viewer clicks on your promotion, they see your video. You only pay when people click to see your video - not when people see your promotion.</li>
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YouTube is a huge opportunity for new traffic. Hopefully these tips will help you navigate that space in a more effective way.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-78054752195339457512012-12-10T07:58:00.001-08:002012-12-10T08:06:50.981-08:00Top 10 Search Engine Ranking Factors<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Search engine ranking factors are some of the most closely guarded secrets in online business. Google and other search engines don't publish exactly how they rank webpages in search results, because that would lead to massive gaming of the system and produce non-useful results.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">Fortunately, you don't have to figure out how Google determines search engine rankings all by yourself. There's an entire industry of professionals who have a good handle on how search engine placement works based on their cumulative experiences. Better still, their collective wisdom has been collected and published by SEOmoz, a SEO consultancy and website. The top 37 search engine optimization ( SEO)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> professionals were asked to sort the 50+ factors that affect a website's search engine placement.</span></div>
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Here are the top 10 factors that positively affect your search engine rankings: (We go over each one in detail below.)</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Article Source : http://onlinebusiness.about.com/od/searchengineoptimization/a/search-ranking.htm</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-58759732529979751032012-12-09T19:09:00.001-08:002012-12-09T19:09:15.896-08:00Google Rich Snippets Tool with Fresh Look<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Google Rich Snippets Tool will help to you know that "how your website will be displayed in search results". Mostly SEO's who are familiar with Micro data will use this tool to test their RDF implementation across the website. Google has improved the UI of this tool with fresh and clean look.</span></h3>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-39662060319851781542012-12-09T04:44:00.001-08:002012-12-09T04:49:52.462-08:007 Ways to optimize your Facebook fan page SEO right now<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.78333282470703px;">1. Choose the best name for your Facebook fan page</strong></h2>
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This may sound like a no-brainer. However, it's the most basic step when it comes to optimizing your brand on Facebook, and is also the most important.</div>
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There is always the temptation to stuff your fan page name with tons of keywords, like "Bob's Bakery - Muffins, Bagels, Cookies, Breads - Catering & Events." In actuality, having a name like this can hurt your viral growth rate inside Facebook. If you appear too spammy, your fans will be less likely to engage with your page, let alone share posts and updates with their friends. In fact, people can even hide your updates from their news feed - imagine the horror!</div>
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Don't be too generic either, though. Facebook's intent behind fan pages is that they represent real businesses, brands, personalities, etc. By choosing something too generic, like <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Travel, Sports, Fishing</em>, etc., you run the risk of Facebook shutting down your ability to post updates and reach out to new fans.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quick Tip:</em> The first word in your fan page title is given the most weight (importance) by Google.</div>
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<strong>2. Create a custom fan page vanity URL</strong></div>
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After your fan page has 25 Likes, Facebook gives your you the ability to create a unique URL (or <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">usernames</em> as Facebook calls them) for the page. Because URLs are heavily weighted by search engines, it is vital that your fan page URL reflects an aspect of your business.</div>
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If, by some misalignment in the stars, you find that another fan page has claimed your business' name already, make sure to include what your business is about in the URL.</div>
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You can check out some different <a href="https://www.facebook.com/username" style="border: 0px; color: #0b72ba; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">username options Facebook offers</a> before selecting your one for your fan page.</div>
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<strong>3. Use keywords in strategic locations on your fan page</strong></div>
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Just like traditional websites, keyword optimization is the most fundamental form of on-site SEO. The most important pieces to pay attention to are the About section, Mission, and Company Description, since these areas are actually pulled from your fan page as SEO elements.</div>
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Here is an example of how a search engine would index your page:</div>
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SEO Title = Your fan page name<br />
Meta Description = Fan page name + the About section of your page<br />
H1 = Your fan page name</div>
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To optimize your page for local searches, it is very important to include your Address, City, State, and Zip. For product-related searches, the Company Overview, Mission, and Products fields should be filled in with your appropriate information.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quick Tip:</em> Just like your website's meta data, you may want to consider using a brief, 140- character description for your fan page so your whole message displays in the search engine's snippet.</div>
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<strong>4. Include your phone number and address</strong></div>
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As surprising as it sounds, there are a good amount of businesses out there that don't include this type of info on their fan page. As a majority of your sales may be from online traffic, it can appear to be not quite so important for you to include. But remember, indexing your brand for local search results is crucial to growing your Facebook fan page.</div>
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In addition, Google places higher importance on pages with specific information like your business's phone number and address. So, pages that include this type of data can effectively increase your brand's overall SEO.</div>
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<strong>5. Backlink to your fan page on existing channels</strong></div>
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The more inbound links to your page, the more authoritative your page is according to Google, and you will be ranked higher. That is why it is very important to bloggers when they have their content linked to from other websites, blogs, etc.</div>
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This same principle applies to your Facebook fan page. So, where it is appropriate, include a link to your fan page from your other digital channels, like your website, blog, and Twitter profile.</div>
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<strong>6. Optimize Facebook fan page status updates</strong></div>
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When posting updates to your Facebook wall, remember that the first 18 characters of a Facebook post serve as the meta description. So, take advantage of the option when Facebook prompts you to "Write something..." since that text will be considered the SEO title for that update. Including direct links to your small business website in your updates is also a good practice to follow.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quick Tip:</em> Just like your fan page's name, Google places a higher importance on the first word of your update, so you may want to consider making that a keyword.</div>
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<strong>7. SEO for Facebook Notes</strong></div>
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Facebook Notes is something that is very under-utilized. When used appropriately, Facebook Notes can provide your fan page with an effective way at increasing your overall SEO. The SEO elements pulled in from Facebook Notes are:</div>
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SEO Title = the title of your note<br />
Meta data = <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Your fan page name</em> wrote a note titled,<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> your note's title</em></div>
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Facebook Notes gives your page the ability to create multiple "pages" underneath the main fan page. Notes are also a good way to expand on special offers or events that your business is hosting and have them indexed in search engines.</div>
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Don't forget that the overarching objective of Facebook SEO is <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">adding to the value of your overall brand.</em> It is important to pay attention to the comparison between raw traffic and engagement level.<br />
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While using the methods above can help boost your SERP ranking, the most crucial part is that it coincides with an awesome product and incredible engagement to grow your following.</div>
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Internet marketing is utilizing the internet as a tool to research a product or products, researching that product or products competition or competitors. Then based upon that research utilizing the internet as an advertising, and or marketing avenue to promote and sale a specific product or products, or generate a list of potential customers or sales leads for the sale of a future product, products, and or service.</div>
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Internet marketers are individuals or teams that focus on and specialize in utilizing the internet with their combined talents and knowledge to research and locate a product or products to promote that have the potential for the highest level of conversions to promote, then create the maximum amount of exposure that will create the maximum amount of sales revenue with the least amount of resources.</div>
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In the world of internet marketing, choosing the right product to promote, market, and sale is key. Especially as a beginning internet marketer, you will have almost immediate failure if you target a niche that is flooded such as mortgage, insurance, credit card, or real estate lead generation. You will also fail if you target a product or service that has very little interest for example if you were trying to promote and sale an E-Book on how to catch flies.</div>
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There are many software products on the market that help internet marketers find, sift through, research, and choose hot selling niche products that they can move into, and make decent money off of. Since many products at some point have a tendency to die off, or become flooded with marketing guys, true internet marketers are very skilled at the process of finding new products, and are continually on the hunt for hot niche products to get out to promote and sale.</div>
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If you are following the path of an internet marketer that will be researching, and selecting multiple products and niches to promote, consider this when doing your research. Even in the old days before the internet, large marketing firms would spend thousands and thousands of dollars in intense detailed research just to determine if a product was worth putting the time, effort, and financial resources into promoting it. Many times large marketing firms would spend all this time and money in research only to decide not to pursue the promotion of a particular product. Yes product selection should be seen as a huge factor in the internet marketer's process, and not be taken lightly.</div>
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A great example of just pure advertising would be a television commercial that just taunts the great things about say a big bank. The intent of that commercial is purely brand building or name recognition, and not necessarily to grab a customer on the spot. In other words, when the big bank runs that television commercial, they won't have someone sitting by the phone waiting on a huge rush of immediate phone calls to come in right after the commercial airs.</div>
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Most companies utilize many different forms of advertising such as television, newspaper and magazine articles, radio, classified ads in newspapers, direct and co-op coupon mail outs, and phone book advertising. Successful internet marketers realize that it is really no different for them, and over time have developed, and have in place and ready to go many different avenues for getting massive amounts of online exposure at their fingertips most of which costs very little if anything at all.</div>
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An example of just pure marketing was in the old days with the telemarketers. The telemarketers for the most part were really a lead generator, some did make sales, but with many companies such as insurance mortgage, or service oriented companies, they were lead generators. In these cases, the telemarketer was true marketing because they essentially were not really making calls to just build a brand name. The telemarketer's role was mostly to grab a lead that they considered through some level of interest to be a strong potential buying customer, and turn it over to a sales department to make a sale, or close a deal.</div>
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Pure marketing from an internet marketer's point of view for example would be a simple form that is utilized to grab a potential buyer's contact information. For example, if you saw a small ad on a website that says "Make $100.00 per day online", with a simple form asking for your name and email address, that would be a form of pure marketing. The marketer is simply looking for future customers to add to their list of people that have an interest in making money online.</div>
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Now keep this in mind when you're putting together campaigns. In the old days, thousands of dollars were paid to professional writers to create the perfect telemarketing sales pitch, and if you were ever unlucky enough to have worked for any of these telemarketing firms, you know that most of them required that you followed this script to the T. Many of these scripts were considered corporate knowledge that most telemarketing firms protected almost as being secret formulas. So yes, spend sufficient time and effort in developing your initial pitch you plan to use for that initial ad or email blast or what ever method you use for your initial exposure.</div>
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Both advertising and marketing tend to share the same space in many situations, and typically sales will stand alone. For example, in most large corporations, you will have an advertising and marketing division that is separate from the sales division. The marketing and advertising division essentially develops advertising and marketing campaigns together to create incoming leads for the sales division.</div>
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Now let's look at an example of where the line turns grey differentiating between marketing and advertising is with campaigns such as say a postcard mail out. If the post card that the company mailed out just had the company's name on it, and what they did but with no phone numbers, address, or contact information on it, that would be just pure advertising, and not necessarily a specific form of marketing or lead generation piece. In most cases, advertising and marketing roll hand in hand. For example, if you see a form on a web site that says "Make $100.00 per day online" along with the brand name Big Bobs Internet Marketing School, and a place to submit your name and email address that would be an example of advertising (brand name building) and marketing (Lead generation or list building) both together.</div>
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After introducing the product, and creating a lead, you want someone that is a strong salesman or closer that can wrap up the deal actually get the customer to pull the checkbook or credit card out, and close the deal. In many cases with internet marketers, the sale is made online with the typical buy now button. Often times for large product launches, thousands of dollars are put into creating the perfect sales page to insure maximum sales every time that page is viewed. Consider this when creating your own sales page or pages. This is where you would have to be wearing your sales hat. Quite often this is the last chance you will have at making this sale. Many times once the potential buyer closes that page, their gone for good.</div>
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Essentially the internet can be utilized as a marketing tool or lead generation tool, an advertising tool just for name brand promotion, a virtual salesman or all together. Think about it this way, If you have a web site that introduces your company, and on the same page has a form to fill out or a phone number to call for a interested customer to contact you, then you are using that web site as both a advertising piece for brand name building and recognition, and also as a marketing or lead generation piece. And if you add a buy now button on that same page where the visitor can purchase the product right then in real time, that one page has become an advertising piece, a marketing piece, and a sales page all in one.</div>
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Successful internet marketers over time have acquired, developed, and honed the skills needed to inexpensively reach thousands of targeted potential prospects, present advertising, marketing, and sales landing pages to those prospects in such a way as to get the highest levels of response that closes deals, or gets a desired response from a visitor. These are the skills that have positioned true internet marketers in today's world to work when and wherever they want to work, and make the kind of money they do.</div>
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These skills have not been developed overnight, but built on by a relentless collection of knowledge, and acquired marketing software tools that have catapulted them into the absolute best positions any entrepreneur could ask to be in. The journey is truly an investment of time that can be started on a shoe string budget, and pay for itself along the way.</div>
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One of the greatest bits of advice I ever received was to start reviewing all the internet money making systems available, set a budget which for me at the time was three hundred dollars, start purchasing the systems, fully implement and learn everything I could. Once I had purchased and implemented three hundred dollars worth of various systems, I stopped spending until the systems I had implemented had made three hundred dollars. This was excellent advice, all of the systems paid for them selves over time supplying me with a huge amount of knowledge and resources, and looking back I wish I would have set my budget higher, and jumped up the ladder a little faster.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Earlier this year google <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/06/pilot-webmaster-tools-search-queries.html">announced</a> a limited pilot for Search Engine Optimization reports in Google Analytics, based on <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35252">Search queries</a> data from Webmaster Tools. Thanks to valuable feedback from our pilot users, we’ve made several improvements and are pleased to announce that the following reports are now publicly available in the Traffic Sources section of Google Analytics.</span><br />
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<li>Queries: impressions, clicks, position, and CTR info for the top 1,000 daily queries</li>
<li>Landing Pages: impressions, clicks, position, and CTR info for the top 1,000 daily landing pages</li>
<li>Geographical Summary: impressions, clicks, and CTR by country</li>
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All of these Search Engine Optimization reports offer Google Analytics’ advanced filtering and visualization capabilities for deeper data analysis. With the secondary dimensions, you can view your site’s data in ways that aren’t available in Webmaster Tools.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYWdV7D_5VHqmVIImwwr7s5P-5dEvzrDvLA6msxpeoB9-ojxR9A7eCfCrSu-b2BQyvgZbq4OSG35kDYFVkkZRc_VIGrouZTQ5SMTinKBt9whKJUf0EKeXC1gAHp2n-X4M5z7NYNZcCyMQ/s1600/Analytics-Webmaster-Tools.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659721826443656258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYWdV7D_5VHqmVIImwwr7s5P-5dEvzrDvLA6msxpeoB9-ojxR9A7eCfCrSu-b2BQyvgZbq4OSG35kDYFVkkZRc_VIGrouZTQ5SMTinKBt9whKJUf0EKeXC1gAHp2n-X4M5z7NYNZcCyMQ/s400/Analytics-Webmaster-Tools.png" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 177px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />To enable these Search Engine Optimization reports for a web property, you must be both a Webmaster Tools verified site owner and a Google Analytics administrator of that Property. Once enabled, administrators can choose which profiles can see these reports.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Article Source : <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/10/webmaster-tools-search-queries-data-is.html">http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/10/webmaster-tools-search-queries-data-is.html</a></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-50968955977252711912011-09-30T07:11:00.000-07:002011-09-30T07:11:43.091-07:00What is SEO Anyway?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Both pay-per-click and SEO are targeted to get your website
placed as close to the top of search engine results as possible.
Marketing and SEO are different, yet very, very similar. SEO are
considered as the main factors in enhancing the traffic of one's
website. The concepts of good SEO are hardly a secret. The people who
least understands issues with URL structure and SEO are the very people
who create them: web developers, programmers, and software developers.<br />
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Many
long-time SEO's are now looking at the big picture and working with
usability analysts. Some SEO are scam artists. I find it interesting
that so many newcomers are given the wrong impression that there is one
almighty answer to doing well in search engines. SEO are specialized
techniques used to optimize your web site, to be Search engine friendly
and increase your chances of placing well in searches. But SEO can also
be the most profitable methods of driving leads because any leads you
receive from SEO are free leads.<br />
There are a large number of
companies that adopt a fast and unethical approach to SEO known as Black
Hat SEO. They employ unethical techniques that are against search
engine policies. The best results from SEO are rarely achieved
overnight. Black hat SEO are the techniques used to fool the search
engines in order to bring in more traffic to websites. Website owners
who unknowingly utilize black hat techniques of SEO are more vulnerable
to changes in search engine algorithms and faced being banned.<br />
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Most
hardcover books on the subject of SEO are best viewed as a vehicle to
help the beginner understand the process of search engine optimization.
This is because the principles behind SEO are not easy. They are very
informative and most webmasters are involved in SEO and using it. White
hat and black hat SEO are two opposing views of how to do search engine
optimization. In a nutshell, SEO are methods that aim to improve the
position or rank of a website in the listings produced by search
engines. The benefits of SEO are almost unlimited.<br />
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Watch out for
SEO Tools and software that is outdated and totally useless. Always
research before you buy any SEO software because the search engine
Algorithms are constantly changing thereby improving their search
technologies to provide the most relevant results for their users. SEO
tools for Google, MSN and Yahoo are numerous. SEO tools for press
release optimization were also launched by PRWeb at the end of June
called SEO Wizard. Search engine optimization is not easy, but with the
right SEO tools, your website promotion task just got a lot easier.
Blogs are one of the best SEO tools around and some like WordPress are
free. Google Sitemaps' are a powerful SEO tools which you can get free
by visiting my website.<br />
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MSN has launched a suite of SEO tools to
go with their Pay Per Click product Adcenter. There are many SEO tools
available on the internet, some are better then others, and some are
not. Header tags, proper Keyword density, proper text formatting fonts,
start text key-phrase as whole phrases, alt image tag text, links
pointing to your site and each page and your domain name itself are some
things to pay attention too. Many specialized SEO tools can help you
determine the popularity and the competitiveness of your possible
keywords and can help improve your search engine ranking particularly in
Google.<br />
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Writing fresh content for SEO plays a large role in
keeping visitors on a web site. Let's talk unique web page content and
SEO content strategy. Finding a good SEO content writer is easier than
you think. Just run a Google search or checkout elance.com. What is good
SEO Content? It is unique, quality information that your visitors can
use and is helpful to them. RSS feeds are an invaluable tool in the SEO
content toolbox. If you scrape SEO content and end up scraping a couple
spam pages, you may get noticed even more because someone is
investigating the other spam pages.<br />
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The primary factor that will
determine whether your SEO content is "good enough" is the content
provided by competing websites. You need unique content that nobody has
in order for it to pass duplicate content filters. That's why it is
important to get your content articles indexed before you submit them to
the search engines. I think nowadays though search engine algorithms
can trace back the content and see who published it first, so at least
make sure you publish it to your website or blog before submitting it to
article directories.<br />
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To strengthen the theme of your web site,
you need keyword rich SEO content. SEO content writing tips content
writer's main aim is to create a new written piece which is original,
simple, informative and also to the point. Write specific targeted SEO
content for the independent pages. Unique SEO content remains king.
Showing your visitors you can really write unique, compelling content,
your traffic will grow very fast. Earlier it was just content writing
but now it is widely known as SEO content writing. However there are
some strict rules enforced on SEO content. Once you have visitors, your
SEO content should be converting them into customers. With effective SEO
content on your website, half of your search engine rank optimization
work is done.<br />
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Ethical search engine optimization is a must or you
will get banned. It's not if, it's when. Search engine optimization was
and still is fascinating to me. Search Engine Optimization is a crucial
part in a websites success. The objective of Search Engine Optimization
(SEO) is to achieve high natural search engine placement for relevant
keywords or keyword phrases. Hiring an ethical search engine
optimization company to rank well in the natural results is essential to
long term success.<br />
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Your white hat Search engine optimization
(SEO) campaign will provide you with a long term increase in targeted
traffic and qualified visitors to your Web Site. Visit my site often and
add it to your favorites as I update you with the latest news and
rumors in the search engine optimization industry everyday. The effects
of bad search engine optimization are devastating and very depressing.
Each website is unique in its own way and hence your (SEO) plans differ
from website to website.<br />
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My site has some tips on how to perform
search engine optimization (also know as SEO) on your website. I have a
free, comprehensive guide to the practice of search engine optimization
for those unfamiliar with the subject if you send me an email. There's a
lot of hype out there about search engine optimization (SEO) services.
Some are good and some are bad. Read through Google's terms of service
as they have some information on their site about it.<br />
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Too often,
visual design and SEO are perceived as a mutual sacrifice. Pay-per-click
and SEO are targeted to get your website placed as close to the top of
search engine results as possible. Pay-per-click cost money, but the
clicks from SEO cost you nothing. SEO are considered as the main factors
in enhancing the traffic of one's website. Both, PPC and SEO are
important. The truth is, the most rewarding part of SEO are often the
slowest to reward. PR and SEO are based mostly on editorial credibility
and relevance, not a direct payment for exposure.<br />
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SEO are
specialized techniques used to optimize your web site, to be Search
engine friendly and increase your chances of placing well in searches.
There are a large number of companies that adopt a fast and unethical
approach to SEO known as Black Hat SEO. The main components of on-page
SEO are optimization of the title tag, the headline tag, the body text
and the Meta tags. Companies interested in SEO are occasionally not very
happy with how their website looks. Programmers with an understanding
of SEO are in high demand. As a matter of fact, sites with excellent
Search Engine Optimization are making giant leaps in rankings and
getting a major boost in free traffic with Google's new update.<br />
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Great
web usability and SEO are wasted if folks who visit your web can't tell
that you are worthy of their trust. Those who specialize in SEO are in
the unique position of understanding the web in a way that no
traditional marketing agency can hope to. White hat and black hat SEO
are two opposing views of how to do search engine optimization so if you
use one, choose with great care. The second most important aspect for
high SEO is the headers. Use H1, H2, H3, H4 headers.<br />
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Many of the
techniques that can be used for SEO are banned by the various search
engines. The benefits of SEO are almost unlimited. Bad techniques of SEO
are a strict 'NO' - Like same color text as the background and Doorway
pages can get your website banned. The five forces of SEO are relevant
Keywords, unique Content, clean Code, relevant Links and proper use of
Technology. Designing for users and designing for SEO are not mutually
exclusive goals. There will be compromise. White hat SEO are techniques
that follow precisely the rules and guidelines provided by search
engines stand a better chance of receiving traffic and higher rankings
than black hat techniques.<br />
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For this reason it is important to try
to stay updated as far as new SEO are concerned. The off-page elements
of website promotion and SEO are just as important. The majority of
issues with SEO is very basic and just takes time to be picked up on
search engines. Web design and SEO are two very different disciplines,
but a certain degree of collaboration is required. It's easy to see why
effective SEO are now very much in demand. Black hat SEO is techniques
used to trick or manipulate search engines for higher rankings.<br />
If
done properly, the results of your SEO efforts are very impressive.
Those who practice what some refer to as "ethical" and "correct" SEO are
called White Hat SEO's. The most important for SEO is to follow the
rules and you won't have anything to worry about.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-66320311244317655092011-09-27T22:07:00.000-07:002011-09-27T22:12:57.182-07:00Dynamic Views: seven new ways to share your blog with the world<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As Google said a few weeks ago
when we launched a completely rebuilt, streamlined authoring and
editing experience, we’re in the process of bringing you a much improved
and modernized Blogger. The next phase of these updates starts today
with seven new ways to display your blog, called Dynamic Views.<br />
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Built with the latest in web technology (AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3), Dynamic
Views is a unique browsing experience that will inspire your readers to
explore your blog in new ways. The interactive layouts make it easier
for readers to enjoy and discover your posts, loading 40 percent faster
than traditional templates and bringing older entries to the surface so
they seem fresh again.<br />
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Dynamic Views is much more than just new templates. With just a couple
clicks, you’ll get infinite scrolling (say goodbye to the “Older posts”
link), images that load as you browse, integrated search, sorting by
date, label and author, lightbox-style posts for easy viewing, keyboard
shortcuts for quickly flipping through posts, and one-click sharing to
Google+ and other social sites on every post.<br />
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No two blogs are the same, so you can choose from seven different views
that display text and photos differently. For example, if you have lots
of photos on your blog, you may prefer Flipcard or Snapshot. If your
blog is more text-heavy, then Classic, Sidebar (what you’re seeing now
on Blogger Buzz) or Timeslide may be preferable. Here’s a quick
description of each of the new views, along with links to some of our
favorite blogs where you can check each of them out in action.<br />
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<li style="text-align: left;">Classic (Gmail): A modern twist on a traditional template, with infinite scrolling and images that load as you go</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Flipcard (M loves M) - Your photos are tiled across the page and flip to reveal the post title</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Magazine (Advanced Style) - A clean, elegant editorial style layout </li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Mosaic (Crosby’s Kitchen) - A mosaic mix of different sized images and text</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Sidebar (Blogger Buzz Blog) - An email inbox-like view with a reading page for quick scrolling and browsing</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Snapshot (Canelle et Vanille) - An interactive pinboard of your posts </li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Timeslide (The Bleary-Eyed Father) - A horizontal view of your posts by time period</li>
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Adding a Dynamic View to your blog is as easy as changing your template.
Log in to Blogger, click on the Template tab on your dashboard, and
select whichever view you want to set as your default. Note that readers
can still choose to navigate your blog in a different view by selecting
from the pulldown in the upper left of the screen.<br />
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If you want to add your own touch to any of these new views, you can
upload a header image and customize the background colors. We’ll be
adding more ways to customize Dynamic Views in the coming weeks.<br />
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We hope you enjoy the latest update to Blogger, and that, as always, you tell us what you think by completing this short survey.<br />
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<i>Note</i>: In addition to Blogger Buzz, several other official Google
blogs will be featuring Dynamic Views through the weeks and months
ahead, including the Gmail Blog, LatLong Blog and Docs Blog. We’re
excited to bring Dynamic Views into the fold and we'll be looking at
how to incorporate this new technology across Google’s blog network in
the long term.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-13965019641822316512011-09-21T20:50:00.000-07:002011-09-21T20:50:29.220-07:00Pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 class="date-header"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 5:00 AM </span></h2>Webmaster level: Intermediate to Advanced<br />
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Much like <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html">rel=”canonical”</a> acts a strong hint for duplicate content, you can now use the HTML link elements <a href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html#sequential-link-types">rel=”next” and rel=”prev”</a> to indicate the relationship between component URLs in a paginated series. Throughout the web, a paginated series of content may take many shapes—it can be an article divided into several component pages, or a product category with items spread across several pages, or a forum thread divided into a sequence of URLs. Now, if you choose to include rel=”next” and rel=”prev” markup on the component pages within a series, you’re giving Google a strong hint that you’d like us to:<br />
<ul><li>Consolidate indexing properties, such as links, from the component pages/URLs to the series as a whole (i.e., links should not remain dispersed between page-1.html, page-2.html, etc., but be grouped with the sequence).</li>
<li>Send users to the most relevant page/URL—typically the first page of the series.</li>
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<i>The relationship between component URLs in a series can now be indicated to Google through rel=”next” and rel=”prev”.</i></div><br />
There’s an exception to the rel=”prev” and rel=”next” implementation: If, alongside your series of content, you also offer users a view-all page, or if you’re considering a view-all page, please see our post on <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/view-all-in-search-results.html">View-all in search results</a> for more information. Because view-all pages are most commonly preferred by searchers, we do our best to surface this version when appropriate in results rather than a component page (component pages are more likely to surface with rel=”next” and rel=”prev”).<br />
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If you don’t have a view-all page or you’d like to override Google returning a view-all page, you can use rel="next" and rel="prev" as described in this post.<br />
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<b>Outlining your options</b><br />
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Here are three options for a series:<br />
<ol><li>Leave whatever you have exactly as-is. Paginated content exists throughout the web and we’ll continue to strive to give searchers the best result, regardless of the page’s rel=”next”/rel=”prev” HTML markup—or lack thereof.</li>
<li>If you have a view-all page, or are considering a view-all page, see our post on <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/view-all-in-search-results.html">View-all in search results</a>.</li>
<li>Hint to Google the relationship between the component URLs of your series with rel=”next” and rel=”prev”. This helps us more accurately index your content and serve to users the most relevant page (commonly the first page). Implementation details below.</li>
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<b>Implementing rel=”next” and rel=”prev”</b><br />
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If you prefer option 3 (above) for your site, let’s get started! Let’s say you have content paginated into the URLs:<br />
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http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=1<br />
http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=2<br />
http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=3<br />
http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=4<br />
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On the first page, http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=1, you’d include in the <code><span style="color: green;"><head></span></code> section:<br />
<span style="color: green;"><code><link rel="next" href="http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=2" /></code></span><br />
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On the second page, http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=2:<br />
<span style="color: green;"><code><link rel="prev" href="http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=1" /></code></span><br />
<span style="color: green;"><code><link rel="next" href="http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=3" /></code></span><br />
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On the third page, http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=3:<br />
<span style="color: green;"><code><link rel="prev" href="http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=2" /></code></span><br />
<span style="color: green;"><code><link rel="next" href="http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=4" /></code></span><br />
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And on the last page, http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=4:<br />
<span style="color: green;"><code><link rel="prev" href="http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=3" /></code></span><br />
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A few points to mention:<br />
<ul><li>The first page only contains rel=”next” and no rel=”prev” markup.</li>
<li>Pages two to the second-to-last page should be doubly-linked with both rel=”next” and rel=”prev” markup.</li>
<li>The last page only contains markup for rel=”prev”, not rel=”next”.</li>
<li>rel=”next” and rel=”prev” values can be either relative or absolute URLs (as allowed by the <span style="color: green;"><code><link></code></span> tag). And, if you include a <span style="color: green;"><code><base></code></span> link in your document, relative paths will resolve according to the base URL.</li>
<li>rel=”next” and rel=”prev” only need to be declared within the <span style="color: green;"><code><head></code></span> section, not within the document <span style="color: green;"><code><body></code></span>.</li>
<li>We allow rel=”previous” as a syntactic variant of rel=”prev” links.</li>
<li>rel="next" and rel="previous" on the one hand and rel="canonical" on the other constitute independent concepts. Both declarations can be included in the same page. For example, http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=2&sessionid=123 may contain:<br />
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<div><div class="postBody txtWrap" section="txt" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Those of you interested in taking the current flavor of Windows 8 for a spin can now download and install the Developer Preview edition.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Being demoed at Microsoft's <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20105531-75/microsofts-build-keynote-5-key-takeaways/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Microsoft's Build keynote: 5 key takeaways -- Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011">Build conference</a> this week, the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Developer Preview</a> is a prebeta version showing off the operating system at its current stage. Though technically designed for developers, no registration is required, so anyone can download and install it.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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• <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20105152-75/windows-8-debuts-at-microsoft-build-live-blog/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Windows 8 debuts at Microsoft Build (live blog)</a><br />
• <a href="http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20105111-12/an-early-first-look-at-windows-8-hands-on/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An early, first look at Windows 8 (hands-on)</a><br />
• <a href="http://download.cnet.com/2300-2018_4-10009380.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take an early tour of Windows 8 (photos)</a><br />
• <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20100365-75/windows-8-to-offer-both-metro-and-desktop-interface/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Windows 8 to offer both Metro and desktop interface</a></blockquote><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The Windows 8 Preview is being offered in three different packages--a 64-bit version with various developer tools, a 64-bit version of just the operating system, and a 32-bit version of the OS.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">All three come as ISO files--image files of the contents of a CD or DVD. Since each of the packages is several gigabytes in size, you'll need a DVD if you want to burn the files to a disc.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">In Windows 7, you can burn the ISO file to a DVD by double-clicking it to open the Windows Disc Image Burner. For older operating systems, you can use a tool such as ISO Recorder to burn the file. Alternatively, you can use such utilities as Virtual CloneDrive or Daemon Tools to "mount" the ISO file as a drive, eliminating the need to burn it onto a disc.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Since this is a prebeta version, you'll want to install the OS on a spare PC or in a virtual environment so that it doesn't interfere with your production or work machine.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Those of you who want to know what you're getting into before you attempt to install the Developer Preview can check out a <a href="http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20105111-12/an-early-first-look-at-windows-8-hands-on/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hands-on early look at Windows 8</a> from CNET's Seth Rosenblatt.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">What's next after the Developer Preview?</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaking at the Build conference yesterday, Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president of Microsoft's Windows division, confirmed earlier reports that Windows 8 will next segue into one beta version, followed by one Release Candidate. Assuming all goes well, we can then expect the final RTM (release to manufacturing) edition sometime after that.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Sinofsky didn't reveal a specific timeframe for the beta or Release Candidate. However, the company has been expected to launch the beta at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in January, according to <a href="http://www.winrumors.com/windows-8-beta-and-rc-on-the-horizon-updates-to-developer-build/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WinRumors</a>.</div></div><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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Read more: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20105965-75/windows-8-developer-preview-come-and-get-it/#ixzz1XwPkLD34" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #003399; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20105965-75/windows-8-developer-preview-come-and-get-it/#ixzz1XwPkLD34</a></span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-86604718596880542802011-08-06T00:30:00.000-07:002011-08-06T00:30:33.205-07:00Official Google Blog: Inside Google's search office<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/inside-googles-search-office.html#links">Official Google Blog: Inside Google's search office</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-389933170422637922011-07-23T23:12:00.000-07:002011-07-23T23:12:15.854-07:00How to Become a Google+ Pro<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="article_author_cont"> <div class="article_author"> <div class="article_author"> <span class="small"> By <a href="mailto:lesliemeredith@techmedianetwork.com">Leslie Meredith</a>, Senior Writer TechNewsDaily </span>22 July 2011 5:33 PM ET </div><div class="article_author"> </div><div class="article_author"><div class="img_caption">Google+ makes it easy to discover new people and interests.If you've logged into Google and done a search over the past two weeks, you’ve probably noticed the little rectangles with “+1” next to most listings. They’re just the first signs of Google’s new social networking service called Google+, or G+, for short.</div><div class="img_caption"><br />
</div><div class="img_caption">Like Facebook, Google+ lets you communicate with and share within your network of friends and acquaintances. Or you can also make all of your postings public so that anyone in the world can follow you, like Twitter. For the time being, Google+ contains no games or ads. </div> </div><div class="article_author"> </div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="img_caption undefined" style="float: undefined;"><img alt="Google+ Sparks page" border="0" class="caption" height="333" src="http://www.technewsdaily.com/images/stories/google-plus-110722-02.jpg" title="Google+ makes it easy to discover new people and interests." width="400" /></div></div><div><br />
</div><div> </div><div>It is currently only available by invitation, but Google+ will launch for the general public soon. In its first two weeks, Google+ booked 10 million members and recorded more than 2.3 billion clicks each day on those little share buttons.</div><div> </div><div>But <a href="http://www.technewsdaily.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-google-2920/" target="_blank" title="The Ultimate Guide to Google+">Google+</a> is more than just a mashup of Facebook and Twitter. Because Google can draw on its vast knowledge of your preferences based on search history, Google+ takes much of the work out of discovering new information.</div><div> </div><div>Along with communication between individuals, Google+ makes it easy to find <a href="http://www.technewsdaily.com/google-could-be-helpful-education-tool-2987/" target="_blank" title="Google+ Could Be Helpful Education Tool">new websites</a> that you’re likely to enjoy. Through a feature called Spark, the new social service delivers information to you in a single stream without the hassles of subscribing to an RSS feed.</div><div> </div><div>Google+ is based on the idea of circles: circles of family, friends, business associates and even people who are experts or share your interest in a subject. While <a href="http://www.technewsdaily.com/why-you-should-quit-facebook-now-2043/" target="_blank" title="Why You Should Quit Facebook Now">Facebook</a> lets its members separate their “friends” into different groups, it has never been an easy process. The circles in Google+ eliminate that problem. You can assign a person to more than one circle.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Getting started</strong></div><div><strong> </strong></div><div>First, you will need a free <a href="http://www.technewsdaily.com/6-best-free-email-services-in-2011-2713/" target="_blank" title="6 Best Free Email Services in 2011">Gmail account</a> to set up Google+. Click on the Gmail link at the top of the Google search homepage to visit Gmail and create a new account if you don't already have one.</div><div>You need an invitation. Send me an email with your Gmail address and I'll send you one. ( <a href="mailto:lesliemeredith@technewsdaily.com">lesliemeredith@technewsdaily.com</a>)</div><div> </div><div>When you join Google+, it will ask you to enter a few key details such as occupation and education. It will also ask you to choose a profile photo. You may add more information if you'd like such as "Places lived" and relationship status, but this data is optional. If you don't want to share personal information, you don't have to.</div><div>On the right-hand side, add links to other locations on the Web that relate to you. Most users add a personal website or blog, as well as their <a href="http://www.technewsdaily.com/social-media-statistics-mind-boggling-facts-about-the-medium-2879/" target="_blank" title="Social Media Statistics: Mind-Boggling Facts About the Medium">Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn</a> accounts.</div><div> </div><div><em>Tip: See your profile as others will see it by clicking "view profile as … " and type in a name of someone in one of your circles.</em></div><div><em> </em></div><div><strong>Two-step privacy</strong></div><div>Privacy options in Google+ are based on circles. There are four standard settings: Anyone on the Web, extended circles (includes the circles of people in your circles), your circles and only you. Further, you can specify circles or individuals by choosing the custom option. These settings apply to your profile and your posts.</div><div>When you add a post to your stream, you can select the circles of people who will see your post by accessing the "Add circles or people to share with" feature. While this limits the initial group of recipients, any of those people could share your message with others, just like forwarding an email.</div><div>To disable sharing, click on the small arrow at the top of your post on the right side. A drop-down menu will appear where you may disable the sharing function.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Using Google+</strong></div><div><strong> </strong></div><div>The mechanics of updating your stream are simple.</div><div><ol><li>Just type in the "Share what's new" box at the top of your Google+ homepage.</li>
<li>Add a photo, video, link or location information by using the small icons in the post box.</li>
<li>Choose sharing options. Whatever option you selected in your previous update will appear by default. Click the small "x" in each sharing button to remove. Note: Green signifies public options including extended circles, while blue indicates that you've chosen circles.</li>
</ol></div><div>Reading your stream is far easier than <a href="http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/fake-facebook-video-trojan-0985/" target="_blank" title="'Shocking' Facebook Video Ends Up Owning Your Computer">Facebook</a> or Twitter because Google lets you select the circles that appear in your stream. You can change your selection with a single click. See just family or just colleagues by using the buttons that correspond to each circle you've created.</div><div>As your stream becomes more crowded, you may find the mute button useful. For instance, one birthday post can quickly accumulate hundreds of comments. Click on the small arrow in a circle in the upper right corner of the post and select "mute." The post will be hidden, but a one line reminder message and a link to undo mute remains.</div><div> </div><div>For now, Google+ is a quiet place. Even if it fills up, the tools are in place to keep things under control. If you've been hesitant to dive into Facebook, but would like to have a place for communication with old friends, Google+ is a good place to start.</div><div> </div><div>Article Source:http://www.technewsdaily.com/how-to-become-a-google-pro-3022/ </div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-73030310805740347052011-07-19T22:18:00.000-07:002011-07-19T22:20:47.744-07:00Kismat Per is Kadar ............<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8BFf6_8t17sbQycR4hYXzNPFUX-Pjz3YpKRfaBFyr8bJWTbJs02w5K6MvxOYI2Vv3qhXfuFK-ehWkiLxcdjUtG-NiVwQdwtW-QF8MFlUiKklX7tOI3luJ2q9k0BTl9Sv6Yd8QYyYETDE2/s1600/IMG_0548.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8BFf6_8t17sbQycR4hYXzNPFUX-Pjz3YpKRfaBFyr8bJWTbJs02w5K6MvxOYI2Vv3qhXfuFK-ehWkiLxcdjUtG-NiVwQdwtW-QF8MFlUiKklX7tOI3luJ2q9k0BTl9Sv6Yd8QYyYETDE2/s320/IMG_0548.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Yeh Jante He Hum Unko Pa Nahi Sakte, Isliye Samne</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Unke Hub Bhi Izahar Ye Mohbbat Baya Nahi Karte !!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Anna hazare on Thursday declared that he will join Baba Ramdev in his protest fast against black money saying he won't allow the government to weaken the anti-corruption agitation. <br />
"I will join Baba Ramdev on June 5. The fight is against corruption. I will talk to Baba on how to go forward on the fight against corruption. The government has tried to cheat us. The government had assured us that they would look into our demand," he said. <br />
"I will support Baba Ramdev so that the government does not do what it did when we were fighting. We will fight together against corruption," he added. <br />
Anna Hazare also said that there is no divide in the civil society ove rthe Lokpal bill. <br />
"There is no two views on Lokpal bill between us and Baba," he said. <br />
Meanwhile, the UPA's outreach to Baba Ramdev continues. Ministers are expected to meet Ramdev on Thursday as well. <br />
The Cabinet too is expected to discuss the Ramdev issue. significantly the Congress Core Committee will also meet today. Baba Ramdev though is firm on going ahead with his fast, starting Saturday. <br />
The meetings come even as the party indicated it was miffed with the government's red carpet rolled out to the Yoga guru at the airport on Wednesday - he was received by four Union Ministers and the cabinet secretary. <br />
The party is also worried about the fact that the RSS has come out in support of Baba's protest.<br />
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By :Upesh Rajak</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461280269884274096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453870306084347421.post-15185994516276563892011-05-24T06:31:00.000-07:002011-05-24T06:31:16.715-07:00Why buy your child a pony?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Owning a pony can be a great way for a child to learn responsibility, and done right your child will learn fast and develop loads of self confidence. They may make new friends, and they will get plenty of exercise. But get the wrong pony, and not only can your child lose confidence, they could even get hurt. Before you decide if buying a pony is right for your child, ask yourself a few questions.<br />
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This may be your child's pony, but you are ultimately responsible for it. Don't buy a pony for a child when the child is the only source of knowledge of horse care and handling. If you aren't experienced with horses, take the time to learn before you buy. You don't need to become an expert, but you do need to be confident with horses to be able to set a good example, and you need enough knowledge to make decisions about horse care.<br />
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Chances are your child has a riding instructor. Talk to them about buying a pony. Take advice from experienced horse people who know your child. They'll be the best source to tell you if you and your child are ready to own a horse, and they'll be an important resource later on too. If you are going to keep your pony at a livery stable, talk to the managers there. If they understand your level of knowledge and experience, they'll be better able to help you out when you need it.<br />
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Many young riders are infatuated with horses, and many children feel that has to manifest in having their own pony. But when it comes down to getting out of bed early every morning to feed and care for it, when it's snowing and cold, when they've fallen off or been stepped on for the umpteenth time, when caring for a horse gets really dirty and smelly - will your child still feel the same? If you have reason to doubt your child's<br />
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