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Comment on TWS28: RankBrain, Mobile SEO Update, and Duplicate Content by Nikolay Stoyanov

Nikolay Stoyanov — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 11:56:00 +0000

Really nice article! There is a lot of speculation regarding links and how important they will be as RankBrain becomes more and more advanced through its learning capabilities. Do you think that their importance will diminish in near future?

Comment on Payday Loan Ad Ban, Doorway Pages, New gTLDs, & More by Clicks Geek

Clicks Geek — Thu, 19 May 2016 14:00:00 +0000

Do as Google says, not as Google does.

Comment on New Google Manual Action, SEO Theory, Twitter in the SERPs, & More by Joseph Hughes

Joseph Hughes — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:45:00 +0000

In reply to Sean Markey. Cheers, Sean!

Comment on New Google Manual Action, SEO Theory, Twitter in the SERPs, & More by Sean Markey

Sean Markey — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 02:44:00 +0000

In reply to Joseph Hughes. As far as I can tell, this is pretty closely related to fashion/craft/recipe bloggers that review and link to products they were either given or received some kind of "payment" for, but did not NoFollow the links (or otherwise disclose the nature of the relationship. I think, for the purposes of understanding this manual action, local sites linking to relevant/authority sites should be just fine!

Comment on New Google Manual Action, SEO Theory, Twitter in the SERPs, & More by Joseph Hughes

Joseph Hughes — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:03:00 +0000

I realize it’s mostly speculation at this point, but how egregious do you think a site’s outbound linking needs to be to incur the wrath of a manual action? For example, a local business site that links out to informational town and county pages seems/is relatively natural. I imagine your outbound linking would have to be pretty obnoxious to raise any red flags, no?

Comment on This Week In SEO: Mobilegeddon & Google Loving by Nikolay Stoyanov

Nikolay Stoyanov — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:30:00 +0000

Love Brian’ post! LSI’s are probably the future of SEO, what do you think?

Comment on On Page SEO Guide – The 80/20 Of It All by Lisa Chapman

Lisa Chapman — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:42:00 +0000

Thanks, Travis, for a great guide that helps my clients absorb this in laymen’s terms. I found this as I searched for info to give them as further reading on the SEO issues we discuss. I have a request for an enhancement… One of my clients is a brick and mortar retail store selling pool tables and home game room tables and supplies. As you might suspect, they have hundreds of pictures on their site, all ripe for keyword image tags. They are very important to retailers these days, because image search is one exciting way for their products to be found by shoppers, as well as a plethora of others, including bloggers. It requires some effort, but once they’re tagged properly, they act as doorways to their site – completely at their control. This is an often overlooked tactic – one that still offers great reward for those wiling to make the investment – or for the consultant who has a virtual assistant in the Philippines. Cheers!

Comment on AMP, Local Link Building, Silos, & More by Nikolay Stoyanov

Nikolay Stoyanov — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 10:52:00 +0000

People often disregard relevancy thinking that any link is a good link. Good example with silo and flat structure. Shows us what kind of links we should target.

Comment on Apple Disrupting Search Ads, Knowledge Graph API, Local Pack Filters, and More by Travis Jamison

Travis Jamison — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 05:36:00 +0000

In reply to Brendan Tully. One thing I did notice upon further investigation, is that the non-local movements were not necessarily link related. I saw some *temporary* big swings on sites without any links. So it might be that they are changing several things at once??

Comment on Apple Disrupting Search Ads, Knowledge Graph API, Local Pack Filters, and More by Brendan Tully

Brendan Tully — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:53:00 +0000

Reviewing some of our positions today, looks like Pigeon/the local algo has been fiddled with too. Multiple sites that appeared to have places penalties or way outside the centroid are now ranking again. It looks like CBD areas have been changed back from suburbs to a more general area