Using my experience from working with local clients and Get Listed’s Local Search Ecosystem, I decided to create a list of local directories to make sure all local clients are listed in, for my personal reference. Luckily, my readers can benefit from this too.. Enjoy! For Google Local Rankings on SERP’s & In Google+ Best [...]

Most Important Local Business Directories is a post from: James Harrison's SEO Blog

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Using my experience from working with local clients and Get Listed’s Local Search Ecosystem, I decided to create a list of local directories to make sure all local clients are listed in, for my personal reference. Luckily, my readers can benefit from this too.. Enjoy! For Google Local Rankings on SERP’s & In Google+ Best [...]

Most Important Business Directories for Local SEO is a post from: James Harrison's SEO Blog

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While there aren’t many marketers who still feel you need to blog everyday, most will agree that you should blog often for a variety of reasons. However, I’m going suggest that it might be time to bring that sacred cow to the slaughter house and that, the more posts you publish, the more of a [...]

This post originally came from Why You Should Blog Less and Update More

In over a decade of working on websites I’ve see a lot of affiliate websites. Some were good but a lot were very bad. In this post, I’ll share my experiences about what I think Google is looking for and the common traits of things I’ve seen fail. Single Offer Website When I first started, [...]

This post originally came from How to Build an Affiliate Website Google Doesn’t Hate

There have been many debates about the value social media plays in having content rank. While nothing has been definitively resolved, it has been shown to be beneficial in the short term. In this post I’d like to take a look at a different aspect: the impact social media has on crawling and indexing. Recently, [...]

This post originally came from The Role Social Media Plays In Crawling a Website

As a WebmasterWorld Moderator for the Google SEO section I am asked questions everyday and honestly most of them really upset me. I don’t mean a little upsetting, I mean like turning into a big green monster that starts saying “me hulk smash tings”. Why am I so worked up? Because the questions are simple [...]

This post originally came from The Importance of Testing in SEO

In recent years due to developers misguided attempts to make the web a more interesting place with things like JavaScript and Ajax, search engines have had to come up with new tools to make the content that’s hidden behind these technologies accessible. While I’m sure the people at the Googleplex have nothing but the best [...]

This post originally came from How Google’s Javascript Bot Can Kill Your Website

This week’s infographic by SEOBook.com is about Google’s recent link devaluation update implemented into the algorithm, that most sites started to experienced around January 17th 2013. Over the years Google has moved to “fight spam” at the same time Google’s business development team has pushed to “make spam.” The combination of those 2 (& pulling in additional [...]

Infographic of the Week – An Ode to the Organic Link (& How Google Made Them Irrelevant) is a post from: James Harrison's SEO Blog

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The word ‘baiting’ has an ugly connotation to it as if you are duping someone when truly it is about inviting someone. Wouldn’t Link Invites have sounded more positive? Why is it the big shots never take advice from the genius little small shot that is me? Anyway, as far as the concept goes, link [...]

The Benefits of Link Baiting by Dan Vassiliou is a post from: James Harrison's SEO Blog

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2012 turned the SEO world into a virtual Zoo, what with all the Penguins and Pandas wrecking havoc on websites with low quality content or those that had indulged in questionable link-building practices. While 2012 perhaps saw the worst side of algorithm updates, it’s a fact that Google algorithm updates occur more than 100 times [...]

4 Ways In Which Online Marketing Will Change In 2013 (Guest Post) is a post from: James Harrison's SEO Blog

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