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  • GWT notice of detected unnatural links to http://www.seobook.com/

    I am already getting fake webmaster tool notification messages using the above subject line & the following message:

    Hello dear managers of http://www.seobook.com/! My name is Olivia, and the issue I’m gonna to discuss is for sure not new, but really actual and complicated, otherwise...

  • Ha! Bullets Can't Hurt ME

    Negative SEO vs Sabotage

    Just about any independent SEO worth their weight who publishes a number of websites has at least once hit a snag & been filtered or penalized. A person can say "not me" but how do they operate optimally in both the short term and long term if...

  • Google AdWords Ads Add Album Cover & Song Preview

    Before I get any drops of jupiter hate on the following...I was typing in training.seobook.com & somehow accidentally hit enter after typing train & when the URL completion didn't work I got the following SERP.

    If you click the feature video link it does a YouTube video overlay. The other links...

  • The Google Penguin Update: Over-Optimization, Webspam, & High Quality Empty Content Pages

    Huge Update

    Google recently launched their webspam Penguin update. While they claim it only impacted about 3.1% of search queries, the 3.1% it impacted were largely in the "commercial transactional keywords worth a lot of money" category.

    Based on the number of complaints online about it (there is...

  • GoogleBowling, Negative SEO & Outing

    Excessive Complexity & Unintended Consequences

    Sergey Brin recently said:

    You have to play by their rules, which are really restrictive. The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many...

  • Consumer Ad Awareness in Search Results

    Consumer Search Insights.

    For the following study, we asked "Does this search result have ads on it? " to 1,000 searchers, per search results. Due to these surveys requiring a smaller image (to fit the ad unit size) we chose search results that generally had...

  • Which Source Do You Trust Most?

    Consumer Search Insights.

    Which do you trust most as a source of advice on important issues?

    People tend to trust friends & family and the mainstream media far more than they trust websites & search engines.

    Vote All (1204) 
    friends & family 37.1% (+3.0 / -2.9)
    newspapers 32.5% (+3.0 / -2.8)
    search engines 19.3% (+2.6 / -2.4)
    social...

  • How Did You Choose Your Primary Search Engine?

    Consumer Search Insights.

    When you search, how did you pick your primary search engine?

    Most people use the search engine which they believe has the best relevancy, whatever their computer came with, or what a friend recommended.

    Vote All (1190) 
    it has superior relevancy 30.4% (+3.0 / -2.9)
    the computer had a...

  • How Many Search Engines?

    Consumer Search Insights.

    How many search engines do you typically use in a given month?

    Most people only use 1 or 2 search engines in any given month.

    Vote All (1223) 
    1 48.9% (+3.1 / -3.1)
    2 26.2% (+2.9 / -2.7)
    3 9.1% (+2.2 / -1.8)
    4 4.7% (+2.0 / -1.4)
    5 or more 11.1% (+2.3 / -2.0)

    There isn't much difference between men...

  • Search Again or Click On the Second Page of Search Results?

    Consumer Search Insights.

    If you use a search engine but don't find what you are looking for, which are you more likely to do?

    People are more likely to search again with a new keyword than they are to click onto the second page of search results.

    Vote...

  • Citation Labs Review - Here's Why I Use it

    So what are we calling it today? Link building, link prospecting, content marketing, linkbait, socialbait, PR ? Whatever it is and whatever sub-definitions exist for the process of finding quality, related websites to link back to yours is difficult and time-consuming work.

    As with most processes associated with SEO campaigns, or...

  • General Consumer Awareness of SEM & SEO

    Consumer Search Insights.

    Which of the following have you heard of?

    More people have heard of paid search / AdWords than have SEO / link building. One of the big issues with this question is that since it had numerous check boxes it had a lower response...

  • Paid Placement in Search Engines

    Consumer Search Insights.
    In the below poll we didn't make any distinction between AdWords & organic SEO investments. If we did I am not sure how it would have impacted the voting.

    How do you feel about people paying for placement in search engines?

    Nearly 2 in...

  • Content Locking Ads

    Consumer Search Insights.

    Google recently launched a consumer insights survey product, which quizes users for access to premium content.

    How do users get access to these poll questions? Google locks premium content behind them, likeso:

    Google has long stated that "cloaking is bad" and...

  • Ad Retargeting

    Consumer Search Insights.

    How do you feel about companies tracking your online behavior to target ads?

    Surprisingly, nearly 1 in 11 people like ad retargeting. However, over 3 in 5 people dislike it.

    response All (1250) 
    I dislike...

  • Google+ Integration

    Consumer Search Insights.
    As publishers we tend to be quite concerned with the over-promotion of Google+ because it carves up the search landscape, is potentially another hoop that we have to jump through, and in some cases, the Google+ hosted version of a page...

  • Editorial Objectivity

    Consumer Search Insights.

    Should search engines be able to preferentially promote their own services in their search results?

    Nearly 3 in 4 people think that search engines should not be able to preferentially promote their own services.

    vote All (1226)
    no, results should be objective 74.1% (+3.1 / -3.4)
    yes,...

  • Jim Boykin Interview

    Internet Marketing Ninja Jim Boykin has promoted link building since before I even knew what SEO was. Nearly a decade later so many things have changed in SEO (including renaming We Build Pages to Internet Marketing Ninjas), but he still sees links as a key SEO driver (as do...

  • Patience is a Virtue

    Sorry I haven't blogged as much lately, but one of our employees recently had a child and Google sending out so many warning messages in webmaster central has created a ton of demand for independent SEO advice. Our growth in demand last month was higher than any month outside...

  • Review of Jim Boykin's Free Broken Link Tool

    Jim Boykin recently released a free, but powerful tool, that can help you check on broken links, redirects, in addition to helping you generate a Google Sitemap.

    Being a free, web-based tool you might think it's a bit lightweight but you'd be wrong :) It can crawl up...

  • Google Instant Answers: Rich Snippets & Poor Webmasters

    This is a pretty powerful & instructive image in terms of "where search is headed."

    It's a Yahoo! Directory page that was ranking in the Google search results on a Google Android mobile device.

    Note the following

    • the page is hosted on Google.com
    • the page disclaims that it is not endorsed...

    • Interview of Jonah Stein

      I was recently chatting with Jonah Stein about Panda & we decided it probably made sense to do a full on interview.

      You mentioned that you had a couple customers that were hit by Panda. What sort of impact did that have on those websites?

      Both of these sites saw an...

    • Branding & The Cycle

      Since it took me a few hours to put together my SMX presentation I figured it was worth sharing that information on the blog as well. This post will discuss examples of how Google has dialed up their brand bias over time & points to where Google may be headed...

    • Why SEO Consultants Push Brand

      At SMX I gave a presentation on brand & how Google has biased the algorithms toward brands. having already seeing the bulk of my argument months prior, Bryson Meunier spoke after me and put together a presentation that used bogus statistics & was basically a smear of me. He...

    • Maximizing Google Analytics Insight for SEO with Custom Reports

      Google Analytics - one of the most powerful tools for any SEO, assuming you know how to get the data you need from it. One of my favorite things about Google Analytics is how many tools that put at your disposal for quickly analyzing the data you care most about....