Authorship and Author Rank: HUGE Signal Most People are Missing
Ever since Google has closed its Google Plus authorship program, you might have had “Authorship is dead” sentiment all over the place. The truth is, that was an absolutely different type of authorship than what we are going to talk today. Google Plus authorship has never been a ranking signal while mapping authors and figuring […]
- 09-28-2015
- Search Engine Optimization
How to Optimize Title Tags for Higher Rankings and Better Click-Through #JimAndAnn
Title tag is the most important element of your web page: It helps you rank higher, it can improve your click through, it can catch an eye and get people share your page on social media. Title Tag Optimization Tips Google will only display ~70 characters (512 pixels) within search results. But it doesn’t mean […]
- 09-17-2015
- Search Engine Optimization
Guaranteed Rankings + PR7 Links: From Weird Leads Series @ Jim and Ann Show
We continue featuring some of IMN leads we’d like to publicly respond to in order to educate our community a bit. Please watch our previous video in the “weird leads series”: “Acquire 300-400 Good-Quality Links” Here’s another one: The Lead: Hi, I am looking for a company that specializes in achieving Top Website rankings with […]
- 08-06-2015
- Search Engine Optimization
How To Get Google Search Console Data When It’s Not Showing Or Disappears
You can think of Google Search Console kind of an equivilent of a Google Analytics view. On the positive end of that, you can’t really lose data in the same way like what can happen in analytics. On the negative end all your data can temporarily disappear and because of Googles UI, you’re left scratching […]
- 07-29-2015
- Search Engine Optimization
Troubleshooting Google Search Console International Targeting “No Return Tags” Error
While I was browsing around on how to troubleshoot relating to the thousands of “no return tag” errors on a site, I saw that there was not much in the way of resources on this topic, so I thought that it would be good to create one. As you browse Google Search Console (formerly Google […]
- 07-22-2015
- Search Engine Optimization
(HOW) Can We Speed Up the Disavow Process? Jim & Ann Show
There was a talk recently on whether it is possible to speed up the Disavow processing time. Google representative John Muller said that it is recommended to use Domain Directive as much as possible, so instead of using URLs, you should be disavowing the whole domain when it’s possible. While that recommendation may be useful […]
- 07-14-2015
- Search Engine Optimization
Bounce Rate, Long Click, Pogo-Sticking, Dwell Time, Click-Through: Jim & Ann Show
Is Google in any way using its click-through data? Is high bounce rate always bad? What is a long click? All of that is discussed in today’s Jim & Ann show! The signals… the bad, the good, the neutral… A bounce can be good and bad (and it’s not about how long / short it […]
- 07-09-2015
- Search Engine Optimization
Introducing Rel=Fact
On the heels of a study testing a fact based approach to rankings known as Knowledge-Based Trust (KBT) Google is releasing additional news on this front. Even though the KBT concept is still in relative infancy, to give the idea a bit of a growth spurt, Google has unveiled a new attribute intended to help […]
- 04-01-2015
- Search Engine Optimization
HOW TO: Correctly Test to See if Starting SEO is a Worthwhile Investment for Your Business?
The incremental approach to SEO, the approach of making small investment in SEO for proof of concept and scaling on it – is very tempting: it seems low cost and low risk. Also, for companies that are heavily focused on paid advertising, it is common to have a small test budget to run small cheap […]
- 02-05-2015
- Search Engine Optimization
Big Structured Web News: Google Transferring Freebase to Wikidata #SEOQA
Google announced this week that they will be shuttering and the data will be available on wikidata on June 30, 2015. With all the talk around structured data, entities, and the knowlege graph, I naturally wondered if this signaled anything from those other initiatives. The following quote in the post provides some clarification: “So we’ve […]
- 12-19-2014
- Search Engine Optimization
