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Google Defines Semantic Closeness as a Ranking Signal

from SEOByTheSea Google uses a large number of signals to decide upon the order of pages shown in search results. Some of those signals measure the quality or importance of a web page, while others may indicate how relevant a page is for a particular search query entered into a search engine’s search box. One [...]

Google Doesn’t Want Searchers To Find SEOs & Web Designers

from searchengineland.com If you go to Google.com and type “hamburgers,” “shoes,” “candy,” “grills,” “beer,” and hundreds of other terms of ambiguous local intent, Google will almost always show you local results on a map that’s tied to your IP address. But type in “seo,” “seo company,” “web design company” and several terms related to these two [...]

Does Page Load Time influence SEO Rankings?

A recent patent application from Yahoo explores ways that a search engine might consider the amount of time it takes different types of pages to render and other issues involving how quickly pages respond to a visits in ranking, classifying and crawling those pages. Latency is a big fancy word that simply means the amount [...]

Online Branding: Keep it short, Keep it simple, keep it memorable.

I noticed an interesting thing this morning on my way out of a local Starbucks. I walked past a restaurant under renovation that had a sign which read  “We are under construction at the moment, in the meantime visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/winecellar/845435456Z “ I must admit that isn’t the correct address because I [...]

SEO Success: Sign Of A Healthy Corporate Culture

SEO Success: Sign Of A Healthy Corporate Culture

Does social media really help SEO?

this was originally posted by econsultancy As the buzz around social media gets even noisier, it has been fascinating to watch search agencies stake a claim to this territory and reposition themselves accordingly. But how closely do SEO and social media really fit together? We spoke to several leading search agency figures to get their [...]