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How can I explain to clients that rankings can’t be guaranteed?

Read Google’s help article about SEO here: www.google.com With a lot of my potential clients, the first words out of their mouth when building a site is “Can you make my site #1 on Google?” This question is extremely annoying to me… how can I respond in a professional and honest manner? Land Lubber, Colorado [...]

kery | Jan 31, 2011 | Comments 25
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Search Rankings Won’t Be the Prime SEO Metric – Bruce Clay

In this fascinating video interview industry leader Bruce Clay predicts that search rankings will soon not be the prime Search Engine Optimization (SEO) metric. Three factors are converging to bring this about: (1) behavioral search, based on a user’s normal ‘neighborhood’ or ‘community,’ (2) intent-based search, and (3) universal search. Since each of these trends [...]

kery | Jan 10, 2011 | Comments 5
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How to Use Social Media to Boost Your Site Rankings – Bill Hartzer

Bill Hartzer explains how to use social media to get your website notice with higher rankings. He explains how to set up your ‘brand’ (username) and profile on various sites, then subscribe them to an RSS feed that updates them with links to articles. Related items Yahoo’s Dave Roth: The Reality of Social Media & [...]

kery | Oct 21, 2010 | Comments 0
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Do site load times have an impact on Google rankings?

Deepesh from New York asks: “What impact do site load times have on Google rankings?” Recorded on April 23, 2009. Related items AdWords Support Changes, Google Previews Hurts Analytics & Site Operator Nice Google I/O 2009 – Site Review by the Experts Google I/O 2010 – SEO site advice from the experts How to Use [...]

kery | Jun 17, 2010 | Comments 19
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Is Google putting more weight on brands in rankings?

On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video. Monica from Madison, WI asked: Can you verify that Google is putting more weight on “brands” in search engine rankings? If the answer is “Yes” — what is Google’s definition of a brand? Inspired [...]

kery | Mar 08, 2010 | Comments 12
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