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Successful Site Architecture for SEO [SES London 2011]
For today’s blog post, I’m going to write about my favourite topic of all, site architecture for SEO. This write up is based on my recent presentation at SES London 2011, and rather than just posting the slide deck I thought it might be fun ...
Folders vs Subdomains vs ccTLD in International SEO - An Overview
Thoughts, Graphics and Formulas to Improve Decision-making The recent whiteboard Friday session from SEOmoz on International SEO: Where to Host and How to Target was a welcomed overview of how SEOmoz see this landscape. Together with Dan Taylors ...
I Disagree with Fred; Marketing is for Companies that Have Great Products
One of the people I admire and respect most in the technology, startup world is Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson. A little more than a year ago, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Fred in his New York offices, just as we were ending our failed fund raising attempt. The writer...
I'm Ranking, So Where's My Traffic?!
In SEO, nothing is quite as frustrating as pouring time and money into your chosen keyword and finally breaking into the Top 10, only find that you still have no visitors.
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Site Speed - Are You Fast? Does it Matter for SEO?
When Google made their “page speed is now a ranking factor” announcement, it wasn’t a significant new ranking factor but rather that it is significant because it means Google wants to use usability metrics to help rank pages. Your site speed should be a priority as slow sites decrease customer satisfaction and ...
Your Profile Just Got a Whole Lot Snazzier
Disclaimer: This post has absolutely nothing to do with SEO or even online marketing. You've been warned. Please keep reading to see the awesomeness that is your new profile. *happy dance* :) Before I jump into the new profiles and what's so great about them. Let's take a look back, a look at the profiles of yesteryear. Back in the day when the profile ...
Conversion Rates Broken Down by Browser
Everyone who reads this problably looks at conversion rate on a daily basis, but how deep do you look? Do you segment traffic, view by advertising campaign, etc? I decided to dig really deep and sort conversions by browsers. The data was collected from over 20 websites that donated their stats for this inforgraphic. Their traffic ranged from millions of unique visitors all the way down to sites...
A Tweet's Effect On Rankings - An Unexpected Case Study
Let me tell you a tale of an unexpected case study on the value of a tweet on a page's ranking and traffic. This tale will mostly be told using graphics, as the images tell the story better than I can. Let's begin... Last Monday while I was checking the morning tweets, I noticed a ton of tweets about our Beg...
The Next Generation of Ranking Signals
Every 3-4 years, there's a big shift or addition to the key metrics Google (and, to a lesser extent MSN/Bing and Yahoo!) uses to order competitive search results. 1996-1999: On-page keyword usage + meta data 1999 - 2002: PageRank + On-page 2002 - 2005: Anchor text + Domain name + PageRank + On-Page 2005 - 200...