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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Deep Websites Create Discovery Issues for Users and Search Engines #TBT

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Deep Websites Create Discovery Issues for Users and Search Engines TBT daily-golden-nugget-1459-13The navigation of your website can help or hurt how easily people and search engines discover all your content. For this week's #ThrowbackThursday, I'm jumping back to the good topic of deep website linking from January 2011. With websites growing larger and larger every day, the concept explained in that old Nugget is more valid today than it was back then.

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AT: 02/25/2016 12:27:35 PM   0 COMMENTS
Thursday, April 02, 2015

Build Links When Sponsoring Local Events and Acquiring Customers

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Build Links When Sponsoring Local Events and Acquiring Customers daily-golden-nugget-1224-48
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
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Internet Marketing Agencies - Changing With Technology

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Internet Marketing Agencies - Changing With Technology daily-golden-nugget-1143-44
The internet has seen many changes over the last 4 years since I started writing these Daily Golden Nuggets. Undoubtedly, a lot of that change was informed by Google, but really there are a lot of other factors involved.

Through the Great Recession, a lot of easier and less expensive technology emerged that now allows us to access information from anywhere at any time. You could argue that the technology companies forced fancy new mobile devices on us; or you could say that the technology devel...
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AT: 12/10/2014 08:20:17 AM   0 COMMENTS
Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Problems with bad link cleaning up...

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Problems with bad link cleaning up... 1286-daily-golden-nugget-987

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
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Referral Websites are a Must for Retail Jewelers

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Referral Websites are a Must for Retail Jewelers 2440-daily-golden-nugget-808Every website I track has its own set of unique referral sources. Even so, there are a few referral websites that always appear in the list of common referral sources.

The last time I took a close look at the common referral website numbers was March 2012 and I'm including them here for your cross reference. This is my list of the most common referral websites to send visitor traffic to jewelry websites and the percentage of the referral traffic as a whole.

Yellowpages.com
August 2013: 34.44...
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AT: 08/28/2013 03:23:09 AM   0 COMMENTS
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

SEO: Links Without nofollow

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In previous Daily Gold Nuggets, we've mentioned methods to get links from other businesses in your town or in neighboring towns. Building links to your site is very important and there is a huge variety of ways you can do so.

The important part to link building is making sure that the link to your website is not what we call a "nofollowed" link. A few years ago, the search engines came up with this "rel=nofollow" feature in order to prevent the huge comment spam that was building up on blog posts.

Many people were intentionally commenting on blog posts and including the link back to their website as a method of link building. The result was a huge amount of link spam and improper search results pages. The nofollow feature nullified and disqualified this type of spam and all those links, which quickly returned all search...
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AT: 12/29/2010 01:11:59 PM   0 COMMENTS
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