SEO

Are We Hunters or Are We Farmers? This past week had two major events of note. These included Google’s banning of MyBlogGuest and assessing a manual penalty on Portent, Inc. The penalty on Portent now appears to be lifted. What are we to make of all this? Is Google seriously turning up the heat? This […]

UPDATED 20 May 2014: See the “Matt Cutts: Author Rank Comes Into Play” section below for a new statement from a Google representative. *   *   *   *   * Danny Sullivan: You say you are not using anything like an AuthorRank now. Why not use “AuthorRank” in the future? Would it not […]

      UPDATE 28 August 2014: Google has no completely removed Authorship rich snippets from search results. For details see our Search Engine Land article. UPDATE 28 July 2014: As of about a month ago, Google has removed all author photos from non-personalized search. Qualified content can still get an author byline in the search results. […]

2013 was a big year for the industry, as well as for Perficient Digital, and me personally. So much happening so fast, and it looks like the pace will only accelerate going forward. With this post, I want to take a moment and review the top posts (based on total social media “events”), that I […]

In today’s post, we are going to review the data we (Perficient Digital) have assembled on the potential for Facebook activity to impact Google rankings. This is a follow up to the prior study we did to evaluate if Google uses Google+ Shares as a ranking factor. Let’s dig in! Google Visibility into Facebook Likes […]

Back on November 23rd, I put up a post asking people for their best holistic SEO tips, and this led to a very interesting side discussion about the online fate of women who change their names when they get married. My basic reaction to all this is “C’mon Google, this is something you’ve gotta fix!” […]

Some of the discussions in this Hangout on Air event were just priceless. It took place at 4 PM ET yesterday, and Danny shares some fantastic stuff on Hummingbird, social signals in search, and more. The following link will take you to my post on Google Plus about the event, and this contains the full […]

Many of you know that I have been working for a long time on a study to attempt to directly measure the impact of Google+ Shares on Google’s search rankings. This study has attempted to measure “causation”, not “correlation” – i.e. to see if we could prove some impact on rankings from Google+ shares. This […]

Have you ever overheard a friend trying to remember that actor’s name from that one movie with the scary bad guy or a co-worker hopelessly wondering how to properly sauté spinach and you just want to say “Google it!” but it almost seems too obvious? While search engines provide instantaneous access to information, sometimes we […]

An interview with Matt Cutts, Google Distinguished Engineer, and head of the Google Webspam Team. Eric Enge: There are people who think link building is illegal now. Is link building illegal? Matt Cutts: No, link building is not illegal. Eric Enge: Really? Matt Cutts: It’s funny because there are some types of link building that are […]

Pierre Far is one of Google’s experts on the mobile web. He was gracious enough to answer some questions on how online publishers can prepare for an increasingly-mobile web. We have all seen that the use of mobile is exploding. Yet publishers have been slow to fully optimize their sites for this new web experience. […]

Eric Enge had the opportunity to interview Lane Shackleton, a Google and YouTube Product Manager about best practices for succeeding on YouTube. Jump below the image for the Key Points and then complete interview transcript. Key Points Virality is not the only measurement of success. Producing consistent videos that garner solid viewership is a big […]