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Is the Mugshot Industry Really Dead & Buried?
A recent New York Times article really shook things up for the owners of mugshot websites. In a remarkable piece of investigative journalism, the reporter started asking...
Matt Cutts Answers Whether You Should Disavow Links Without Receiving A Warning
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about disavowing links in his latest video where a user writes in to ask: Should webmasters use...
Bing Announces Connected Pages, Track Data For Pages Beyond Your Website
Bing made an announcement today on their blog about the introduction of a new feature to their Webmaster Tools called Connected Pages. Bing Webmaster Tools...
How to Optimise Your Time to First Byte (TTFB) to Improve Search Results
What is TTFB? Time to First Byte (TTFB) is the time it takes a user to receive the first byte from a web server when...
Matt Cutts Answers If Every Page Needs To Have A Unique Meta Description
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about meta descriptions in his latest video where a user writes in to ask: Is it necessary...
How To Spot Bad Links & Deciding Whether To Take Action
Since Google’s Penguin 1.0 update launched in April 2012 (and a recent update on Oct. 4), a painful reality had dawned on us: inbound links...
Robert Riggs, Former CBS & ABC Journalist, Interviews SEJ Editor John Rampton
As part of our SEJ interview series, Robert Riggs of Clariti interviewed me at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas. Robert Riggs is an award-winning journalist...
Adjusting Your Keyword Research For Google’s ‘(Not Provided)’: Interview With Jacob Hagemann
As part of our SEJ interview series, Jacob Hagemann of Hoosh Technology provides some advice on how to adjust your keyword research strategy now that...
Why Your Tech Company is Failing Its SEO
Big-name technology companies offer their software globally, in dozens of different markets. Naturally this means their online sales operation encompasses lots of different languages, with...
Matt Cutts Explains How To Avoid Spam Penalties From Blog Comments
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about link spam in his latest video where a user writes in to ask: Google’s Webmaster Guidelines...
Outrank Your Competitors With Advanced Keyword Research: Interview With Stoney deGeyter
As part of our SEJ interview series, Stoney deGeyter of Pole Position Marketing shares some tips for advanced keyword research tactics that will help you...
Get Your Website Reviewed By Google This Monday, November 18th
Google’s John Mueller announced on Google+ that on Monday, November 18th, they will be offering live, online reviews of websites during their office hours. If you’re...
Yahoo Announces Auction Of Over 100 Premium Domain Names
Have you ever wanted to own an elusive domain name like AV.com? What about webserver.com? Well if you’ve got the cash Yahoo is giving you...
Landing Page Design Inspiration: SEO and UX Working Together
To many web designers, user experience (UX) is the crux of every homepage, while SEO is an inconvenient ploy that uses cheap tricks and focuses...
Choosing The Right WordPress Theme For Your Business: Interview With Ross Jones
In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, Ross Jones of 2 the Top Design gives some tips for choosing the right WordPress...
Affiliate Marketing Best Practices: Interview With Paul Schroader
In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, Paul Schroader of PS Web Solutions leads a discussion on affiliate marketing best practices. Are...
Overcoming SEO Challenges For Retailers: Interview With Stephan Spencer
In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, Stephan Spencer of The Science of SEO offers advice for overcoming the challenges retailers face when it...
Will Russia’s Sputnik Fail Like These 13 Defunct Search Engines?
Russia just spent $20 million to create a government-controlled search engine called Sputnik. Despite being developed by the state-owned telecommunications agency Rostelecom, Sputnik already appears...
Using SEO For Public Relations: Interview With James Crawford
In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, James Crawford of PR Agency One discusses how to use SEO for public relations. There...
Then vs. Now, The Evolution of SEO: Interview With Kris Jones
A big thanks to our Pubcon 2013 sponsor, Brand.com: “the #1 rated online reputation management company”. In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las...
Yandex Islands: Markup Issues and Implementation
What is Yandex Islands? Yandex Islands is a new platform from the Yandex Company. Officially, Yandex Islands were launched in July; they present a new...
Ensure You’re Following TCPA Compliance Regulations: Interview With Daryl Colwell
A big thanks to our Pubcon 2013 sponsor, Brand.com: “the #1 rated online reputation management company”. In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las...
Why Do 92% of Smartphone Users Utilize a Google App?
Whether you love, dread, or fear Google, there’s no denying that the search engine is one of the most dominant forces in the online world....
How To Hire An SEO Expert: Interview With Peter Leshaw At #Pubcon 2013
Sponsored by CopyPress, “Centralize Your Content Performance.” In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, Peter Leshaw of ICanOptimize explains the ins and outs of...
The 2013 Google Encryption and What It Means for You
We survived Panda, Penguin, and a host of other near-crippling online marketing changes and sat on the edge or our seats awaiting this year’s massively...
Eye Tracking Study: The Importance of Using Google Authorship in Search Results
Authorship Snippets: The “Purple-Cow” of Search Engine Results? Imagine being in a class, knowing the answer to a question and desperately attempting to be the...
The Year 2003 in Search #throwbackthursday
Search Engine Journal been documenting the search marketing industry for the past 10 years. To commemorate this milestone, Loren Baker, founder of SEJ, got in the...
5 SEO Touch-Points During Website Design & Development
My career began at a dedicated search agency, often working with third party vendors and IT teams to accomplish SEO objectives. While I experienced many...
Matt Cutts: More Indexed Pages Doesn’t Always Equal Better Rank
In the latest Webmaster Help video from Matt Cutts, he received a question from Leah in New York, if wanted to know that more indexed...
Google Increases Locations Serving Search Requests By 600% From Last Year
Google has significantly increased the number of sites and ISPs it uses to serve search requests according to a study by researchers at the University of...