So my friend Brian Wong, a really brilliant online entrepreneur, released this cool video with simple instructions on how to set up your Facebook Timeline before it officially goes live on October 13th. Enjoy!
As you know white-hat SEO is all about delivering quality to the visitor. Giving him so much that he’s going to share your site in awe. But we also know, especially with recent 2.5 Panda update taking place a week ago, that Google is putting much more stress on quality of a site itself. Whether it’s well designed, provides interesting, engaging content really matters. Matt Cutts from Google takes on this question in an interesting video, drawing a correlation between spelling and PageRank… So, Matt declined that it’s among signals Google is currently actively using, BUT… Amit Singhal, Head...
Google team doesn’t sleep. They’ve only just announced really cool changes to Google Analytics (as you can see in my earlier posts like Google Analytics going real-time or this one) and just a second ago a new post shows up on the official Webmaster Central blog HERE. Webmaster’s Tools gets an all new look to its homepage, which is going to make the tracking of statuses for multiple websites a lot easier. As you can see, you will be able to see all necessary issues reported just up front – no need to click through to see if everything is...
Hot, hot, hot news today! Google Analytics team has just annonced new real-time reporting features in Google Analytics! Until now Google Analytics could only update its data every few hours (perhaps a bit more often, but never real-time). From now on, you will be able to track what’s going on on your site just when it happens. How to use it? Well, think about posting a new article on your blog or blasting an e-mail list of your customers. You will be able to see immediate changes in the activity on your site and see how the readers are...
First of all – in the next couple of days I will post a larger entry about the fundamentals of on-page SEO for websites. Whether you’re a startup or an established site, and want to make sure you’re doing your SEO right – please look out for that one, will be really valuable. I do have to say that very (VERY!) often great sites are missing out their opportunities of ranking high because they don’t fulfill the very basic requirements to allow crawlers index their sites well. The sites I’ve been working on literally gained from 2 to over...
Greetings from Singapore! I’m still here after the feverishly hot Formula 1 Grand Prix weekend. Sitting in a cafe I’m wrapping up what awesome things have been happening in the search environment last week. So, my Top3 picks for you: 99 Ways to Build Links by Giving Stuff Away (and Improve Your Brand Too) - a post promoted from the YOUmoz community. Great summary on how to approach white-hat link building. If you ever had a thought that building links without creating tons of articles or (god, I hope not) spinning content and automated submissions to hundreds of directories –...
For a good kick off to the blog I decided to take the most interesting topic heads-on. So – let’s do it. Why would you do white-hat SEO? Honestly, don’t you feel like a loser? There are thousands of black-hats around, milking the opportunities which come and go on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. They jump on a topic, look for a junk product, or create one themselves, spam their positions sky-high and collect the cash. Quick and slick, ain’t it? Of course at one point Google adjusts their algorithm and some of the spammers’ sites are gone – but...