SEO Roundtable Knights
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Hmm, watch where you place your links… ha? Can be taken as a solid advice for many things, shady sites, shady content surroundings, even utilizing the right position to place a link on your own pages. Also, it can be taken in context of placing links where no one will find them, including search spiders.
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Search for intitle:”Untitled Document” in Google and you will find plenty of websites with missing title tags. Worry not though as Google looks for hints of the page’s main theme elsewhere in the document and inserts it into search results instead of the title.
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The potential rewards of membership in a Frequent Flyer Program (FFP) can actually cost more in terms of airfare than non-membership. However, the widespread success of FFPs as marketing toosl for airlines worldwide attests to the popularity of the notion that flying more often on more expensive tickets is economical, because it leads to rewards such as free flights, merchandise and services.
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We were waiting a fairly long time to have Google+ pages, there were quite a few disgruntled fellows regarding removal of brand name profiles before the implementation of pages, no one can blame them. After a while we got official badges for pages and our profiles that we could place on our sites, and they are quite good, interactive, help logged in users to place your pages or profiles in their circles directly from your website or +1 your page.
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If you have a large website it can be really hard to get all the pages fully indexed, especially the deep ones. That is why sitemaps are of great importance to our websites, large one especially. For faster indexing we submit our sitemaps to Google, so far the only things we could see in GWT included the number of URLs submitted in sitemap and errors.
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“We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us” M. McLuhan
I believe that many of you who are professional bloggers, journalists, scientists, researchers, scholars, strive to become more productive and efficient writers. Having in mind the fact that writing is one of my top five professional activities, I would like to share some of the simple and practical tools that I use in the writing process, and that can facilitate your productivity.
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I never liked how Google shows top search query rankings in GWT, the average date is less than average quality wise, and I’ve always wanted a more precise answer directly from Google, as we said in our post on GWT rankings before, but with personalisation and all that, it’s not a great option as they could never match the changing results.
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After Panda consumed much of the ‘bamboo‘ on the web, MuffinTop algorithm update was supposed to mop up the rest. There are still a few ‘evil unicorns’ frolicking around in the flowery meadows of Google’s search results. In this article I describe two of them – one from standard search results, the other from the news.
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A group of Facebook engineers, along with engineers from Twitter and My Space, have rebuilt Google’s new personalisation feature head on by offering a bookmarklet that integrates other social networks data from Social Web into searches.
The bookmarklet is called “Focus On The User” and compares Google’s recent Search Plus Your World to those that would be, the engineers say, more relevant.
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