Negative SEO- when others (read-competitors) can affect your rankings with bad links. Is this thought just SEO paranoia or does this actually happen?
The search industry turns to Google for answers and since long Google has been saying that bad links others used against you can't hurt your sites rankings. But the search industry saw it happening and now the discussion is out in the open. Google itself has changed its replies overtime.
During the SMX East in September 2011, Google revealed their solution for pagination issues in SEO and search – view all & rel="next" and rel="prev".
This complex and technical topic has proved to be helpful for large sites with a lot of pagination. Google’s Maile Ohye posted a video about it on the Webmaster’s YouTube channel as an attempt to make it easily understandable.
Google once again found themselves in the midst of unwanted attention after Jonathan Rockway, an employee was caught saying:
"Instead of being able to SEO the entire Internet, businesses can now only affect the search results for a tiny percentage of users. That's a good thing because SEO can't scale, and SEO isn't good for users or the Internet at large."
Over 500 consultants and agencies were surveyed about their pricing models by AYTM Market Research and SEOmoz in a survey conducted in December 2011. The results based on the answers given by agencies of all sizes are put together in this Infographic:
What do you think about the cost pitted against the range of services provided? Share your views.
United States markets have the maximum job opportunities in the SEO related sectors. The hot hiring spots and the salaries offered were put together in an infographic titled- SEO Salary Guide: For Top 20 U.S. Markets.
Onward Search has created this highly informative pictorial, and you can download the guide for a detailed study.
Google+ has been in the news since its launch, and specially with the rate at which it has grown. It had 10 million users within a few days, and even on an invite-only basis, it collected 25 million users, and the number of users shot up to 50 million in a couple of days of the network going public.
Whenever Google makes a change in its search algorithm, it makes for big news. The search engine has recently revealed a compilation of the latest algorithmic tweaks it has made. Google's Matt Cutts, has posted a blog about the recent 10 algorithm changes made by Google.
Google really likes to shake things up. The search engine has now updated its Caffeine algorithm to show more recent search results when time centric events and information are searched, like developing news stories and product reviews.
In an infographic by Skyrocket SEO the latest and the most popular SEO tools used by the search experts for optimization have been revealed.
These insights are from a survey of 420 participants worldwide regarding the SEO tools they use and for the purpose they use them for. Study the infographic to know the tool that you may find useful for yourself.
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