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26 Google Webmaster Tools Videos Addressing Common B2B Link Building Questions

KoMarketing Associates

Does PageRank Flow Through Image Links? What Is Google’s Thinking About Links From Article Marketing, Widgets, etc? Should I Build Links Using Article Directories? Created: May 29, 2013. Created: November 25, 2013. Are Links in Footers Treated Differently Than Paragraph Links?v. Is There a Limit? Return to the Top.

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Do Social Signals Drive SEO?

Convince & Convert

All the social media sites NoFollow such links, which acts as an instruction to the search engines to not pass PageRank through those links. “Me-too” type articles are not going to get you anywhere, no matter how well you work the mechanics. Correlation studies only measure correlation, they don’t measure causation.

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Algorithm Updates: Common Questions & What You Should Know

KoMarketing Associates

Google PageRank & Algorithm Updates – Search Engine Roundtable. This has forced many businesses to completely shift their link building strategy from mass quantity to highly targeted quality link building (see my recent Search Engine Land article “ Are you building links or building a business? ”).

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An Introduction to Black Hat SEO

Hubspot

This article will explain what black hat SEO techniques involve so you can make sure to avoid them when devising your organic search strategy. You can also use the disavow links tool if you can’t get webmasters to remove the links.This tells Google to disregard the paid links when calculating your Pagerank. Black Hat Techniques in SEO.

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8 Interesting Things You Probably Didn't Know About Google's Algorithm

Hubspot

1) Google’s overall algorithm has had one name since 2013: Hummingbird. It was formally announced in September 2013 and created to make search results more “precise and fast” like the bird itself, according to Search Engine Land [SEL]. 4) PageRank was named after Google co-founder Larry Page. PageRank itself has quite a history.

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Post-Hummingbird Search: An (Almost) A-Z Glossary of Winning at SEO

Hubspot

However, August’s in-depth articles update and the Hummingbird algorithm changed the game the most. For a detailed review of what Google changed this past year, we recommend Google’s 2013 Algorithm Updates: A Look Back. Authority: Google’s PageRank is gone forever! Search in 2014: A Glossary of Best Practices.

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Social Media Marketing: Top 100 Influencers and Brands

Onalytica B2B

When you got on the bus in the morning, commuters were catching up on current affairs by reading articles in a newspaper rather than articles on their phone. Twitter was launched in 2006; it rapidly gained popularity amongst organisations and celebrities and, by 2013, was one of the ten most-visited websites in the world.