Tools can eliminate a large portion of the sites from the link review list for your Google Reconsideration Request. First you want to identify all deindexed domain/pages, link networks and spammy sites that the tools will uncover. My usage tells me these are more than accurate enough to warrant their usage in reducing the number [...]
Recap iStrategy London 2012 Right after the SEOkomm in Salzburg it was on to London for the iStrategy conference. Personally, I found it to be truly outstanding mainly because the lectures skipped the topic of SEO altogether – a welcome change after all of the SEO conferences that took place last year. At iStrategy, the [...]
Man, did I have a stressful week. Which, unfortunately, is why the SEO News is coming a little late. First we were in Salzburg from Thursday to Saturday, then we went straight to London for the iStrategy Conference. I will write up the recap in the next few days. There were several interesting speakers and [...]
Why should search engines influence indexing? There’s a variety of reasons to control indexing and thus to dictate how a search engine should deal with websites and links: Allow or disallow following links Prevent indexing of irrelevant websites Index duplicate content under only one URL The goal, of course, is to deliver only relevant HTML [...]
SERP Out is a term that I use to describe how I approach ranking a term, choosing a term to target for optimization and the content and promotion you will do to move the page up the rankings. Of course you use tools to choose the keyword space/SERP but you should go to the SERP [...]
Time for our weekly SEO News. This week is an incredibly exciting one for us here in Berlin: Searchmetrics is undergoing a huge, highly anticipated change. We’ll tell you more about it from the press room in the upcoming days. However, here’s a small indication to start with: The favorite app Whatsapp will finally begin [...]
Pretty smart that we have an internal update alarm bell. It always rings when Google is shaking the SERPs with its updates. And on Saturday it was ringing like hell. And we don’t agree with others that this is not an update, our statistics show that this must be some kind update. It is a [...]
It was an exciting conference last week in Moscow. I was planning to write a recap, but it seems my Russian isn’t good enough – and there wasn’t all that much SEO stuff anyway. But I do have one very important tip for you from Russia: If you want to do business there, you have [...]
That my friends, has to be one if not the most common question we’ve been asked since becoming the stealth marketing martial monks for the folks here at Searchmetrics. If there’s one thing that SEOs want to know, when it comes to tools, it’s… “Where’s this data coming from?” Pretty graphs are great, but if [...]
This morning my friend contacted me via Skype to ask if I knew of any problems with SearchMetrics. SearchMetrics and problems? This is something that has never happened before. So I asked him more about the problems. He answered that there has probably been a calculation error in recent weekly visibility updates. There was a [...]
