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Facebook Likes - the newest target of the fake internet Paid Members Public
Channel 4 news ran a big investigation into Facebook Likes [http://www.channel4.com/news/facebook-likes-hacking-fan-data-internet-how] last week: > As Facebook has grown to 1.15 billion users, gaining “likes” or fans, the social network has become a valuable marketing opportunity for companies. One social intelligence company put the value
Do you publish press releases? You need to know this… Paid Members Public
Do you publish press releases on a section of your site? If so – you need to nofollow those links [http://searchengineland.com/google-links-in-a-press-release-should-be-nofollowed-like-advertisements-168339] : > Throughout the video, John Mueller equated press releases to advertisements. It was specifically asked if all links in press releases need to be nofollowed or just
When SEOs get desperate Paid Members Public
Like most bloggers of any note, I get regular e-mails asking me to publish guest posts, or text links. I understand the SEO reasons for this, but always decline – politely to the well-thought through ones, and through deletion to the ones where my name, my blog name and a recent
Please read my desperate Google Reader bandwagon post Paid Members Public
Great post from the Digbot 3000 on the desperate scramble for search traffic [http://digbykillick.co.uk/marketing/an-alternative-to-google-reader-alternatives-articles] around Google Reader’s imminent demise: > My beef is with the agencies and professionals who will undoubtably see this as an opportunity to create a topical, interesting article to generate
No 3 on the inbound marketing hit parade Paid Members Public
I wrote the 3rd best blog post on inbound marketing [http://upcity.com/blog/2013/03/top-25-inbound-marketing-articles-of-the-week-march-1-2013/] this week. This is, frankly, a bit of a surprise, as I have no idea what inbound marketing is…
You don't own your PageRank, so you can't sell it Paid Members Public
My, my. It’s been an interesting few days for web publishers, hasn’t it? Interflora’s Search Death First of all, Google wiped Interflora [http://martinmacdonald.net/interflora-seo-penalty/] from the search rankings: > Searching for the terms [Flowers], [florist], [flower delivery], [flowers online] and hundreds of other related search
Will AuthorRank atomise your publishing brand into individual journalists? Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/02/flipchart-funster.jpg] I’ve just finished another session of my SEO for Journalists [http://www.journalism.co.uk/seo-for-journalists/s336/] course, run via journalism.co.uk. I love running this course – not only do I get paid for it
Google authorship matters for SEO Paid Members Public
Let’s not beat about the bush here. Google Authorship markup [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/11/google_authorship_analytics_and_the_pers.html] – which lets you claim authorship of an article – has just gone from a “nice to have” feature to something vital for SEO: > When Google
