SEL’s Periodic Table Of SEO Success Factors gets an update! Check out what’s new, and the thought process behind it.
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Study: Google Image Search Referrer Traffic Drops 63% Since Upgrade
Define Media Group released statistics from 87 different web sites on the image the new Google Image Search design features have impacted publishers web sites.
Overall, sites in the study saw an average decline of 63% of their traffic from Google Image Search. Industries hit the hardest, according to the report, were Fashion & Lifestyle, Entertainment, News and Photo verticals seeing about a 78% decline in Google Image Search traffic.
As a webmaster, sometimes you just want a quick answer from Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts, and sorting through hundreds of Webmaster Help YouTube videos can take a while. That is where The Short Cutts comes in!
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After all, people are the new algorithm we should all be chasing.
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“Every few months, someone seems to attack search engine optimization. SEOs are often quick to rise in defense of their profession. I’ve done that plenty myself, in the past. But a barrage of recent cold-call SEO pitches in my inbox even has me hating SEO.”
-Danny Sullivan, Founding Editor of Search Engine Land and Marketing Land
The folks at Conductor pulled together stats on the SEO job market, based on 1,500 job postings on Indeed.com and Payscale.com.
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SEO For Siri & The Mobile Search World
It’s been just over a year since Apple’s Siri was unveiled with the iPhone 4S. The latest version works with the iPhone 5 and newer versions of the iPad. Siri didn’t cause an overnight revolution of how most search on their phones. Many iPhone users still type keywords into Safari and get back answers from Google. But Siri, along with mobile apps and mobile searching in general, are changing searcher habits and posing new challenges and opportunities for search marketers.
The people at Alchemy Viral have created an infographic that covers a variety of things to keep in mind about how to better react to the growing number of mobile searches, including those being routed through Siri.
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If you create great content, can you get your site ranked? Or will we allow authorship, canonicals, schema, and manipulation of keywords to become the new normal?
Jenny Halasz, talking about how the average small business can’t afford to keep up, especially when the average retainer fee for an SEO agency is $2500-$5000.
Read more about the issues of ranking solely on content in her latest article: Have Keywords Stopped Being A Proxy To The Customer?
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Another Google update, folks. This time, page layout.
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