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Thursday, April 02, 2015

Build Links When Sponsoring Local Events and Acquiring Customers

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This is the #ThrowbackThursday edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. This week, I'm jumping back to Nugget Number 93 from December 1, 2010. The topic is Trading Links with Local Businesses.

Linking to Avoid


Google has placed heavy penalties on websites that use link building to affect their ranking. The VIEW FULL GOLD NUGGET


AT: 04/02/2015 12:59:01 PM   0 COMMENTS
Monday, March 30, 2015

Measured Results After Adding Schema.org Microdata To a Website

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Whenever Google comes out with a new webmaster guideline, I wonder what they are up to. Every action they take has the potential to aide or disrupt the normal flow of the internet that we all rely on now. Take, for example, the announcement of their mobile-friendliness ranking factor and the potential for disruption that VIEW FULL GOLD NUGGET


AT: 03/30/2015 11:17:52 AM   0 COMMENTS
Thursday, January 01, 2015

How Many 2014 Predictions Came True?

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Welcome to 2015! Before we forge ahead into the New Year, we need to look back on the predictions and changes from 2014.

Here's a quick review of my 2014 Predictions from a year ago.

2014 Prediction Review



Facebook Becomes More Worthless for Jewelers


Prediction: "Facebook will become more worthless for jewelry stores that are unwilling to pay for ads."

This prediction turned out to be 100% true. Facebook ...
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AT: 01/01/2015 09:54:59 AM   0 COMMENTS
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Google Penguin Update After More Than A Year

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I typically don't write about current trends in the search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) industry, but today's topic is both a reassessment and a follow up to a previous Nugget about Google Penguin.


Penguin Basics


In April 2012, Google started fighting online spam in a big way. Prior to that month, one of the most common methods of achieving high Google search ranking was to pay a company to create links to your website. A single fee of $79 could get you thousands of l...
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AT: 10/23/2014 06:58:10 AM   0 COMMENTS
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Setting the Preferred Domain for Your Website

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For today's Daily Nugget, I'm answering a direct question that came in from one of my readers. Did you know you can send me questions? Submit them through the contact form on the jWAG site, or send them to me through Google+ or Facebook.

The answer to this question is a little technical, but this brings together a few different topics.

Here's the question:
My nephew's been enjoying his SEO...
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AT: 09/17/2014 07:26:36 AM   0 COMMENTS
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Off-Site SEO for Retail Jewelers

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This week I've been explaining the differences between Technical SEO,On-Site SEO, and Off-Site SEO.

While the technical aspects of search engine optimization include a lot of analysis and analytical thinking, the on-site optimization requires a creative flair for writing, photography, and customer satisfaction that...
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AT: 08/28/2014 09:24:10 AM   0 COMMENTS
Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Problems with bad link cleaning up...

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Paying for link building is bad for you business. If you have, then you've probably already attempted some type of Penguin recovery process.

I was recently reviewing the "Links to Your Site" inside Google Webmaster Tools (WMT). You can find this report in your own Webmaster Tools account by clicki...
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AT: 05/06/2014 12:23:05 PM   0 COMMENTS
Thursday, November 21, 2013

How to Remember the Difference Between Google Panda and Google Penguin

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Google Panda and Google Penguin are two filtering mechanisms that Google uses to block websites from appearing in SERP results when they've disobeyed with Google's website guidelines.

There's plenty of confusion between what each of the filters do and how to figure out if you've been affected by one. I'm going to try to clear up some confusion with that today.

The Panda filter helps Google's search algorithm figure out the difference between good quality content and bad quality content on websites. Good content refers to anything that is well written, interesting, adds value to your website, and is not duplicated on another website.

What counts as good content? Google's goal is to get you to write high enough quality to be published in a book or a magazine.

Bad quality content is typically anything that ...
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AT: 11/21/2013 10:22:05 PM   0 COMMENTS
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