BrightEdge Weekly Search Recap – 6/24
This week’s search world was mostly about Google, the Panda update, and what that means for the future of SEO. One-seventh of the world’s population now uses Google each month! The week also included: a new disruptive technology, SEO marketing , and a Dilbert take on black-hat SEO and paid links.
1. Oblong Has Built The Future Of Computing. I’ve Seen It. Used It. It’s Beautiful.
“This is the next Macintosh-level of disruption.”
2. A New Perspective On Link Building
Dictionary.com defines a link as “anything serving to connect one part or thing with another; a bond or tie.” Interestingly, the given definition for a relationship is “a connection, association, or involvement.” From a semantic point of view, these two words seem to be synonyms. Yet from an SEO point of view, all too often they are mortal enemies.
3. Official: Google Panda Update 2.2 Is Live
Google has given us confirmation that they have run an update to the Panda filter re cently.
4. How Google’s Panda Update Changed SEO Best Practices Forever – Whiteboard Friday
It’s here!
5. Google Goes Gray With New Design Test
Over the weekend Google began testing a new design for the search results.
6. Top 5 Google Panda Update SEO Survival Tips
Google Panda 2.2 is looming to drop sometime soon, and with it, increasing levels of apprehension in the small business community on fears of further collateral damage to organic search traffic.
7. Google Hits the Billion Monthly Unique Visitors Mark
Roughly one in seven people around the world visit Google monthly. How do we know? Google has just become the first company to break the billion visitor mark for the monthly unique visitor (MUV) metric.
8. Google Warns WordPress Site Owners To Update
The Google Webmaster team is now notifying webmasters who are using an older version of the popular content management and blogging software WordPress. Apparently as early as last week, State of Search reports, users whose WordPress was out of date were receiving notices from the Google Webmaster Tools team stating as such.
9. Aligning SEO with Marketing – A Plan for Success
One of the best things about being an SEO is when your activities produce tangible results for a company that really moves the bottom line. So it is with great pleasure that I share some strategies and tactics that my company BusinessOnline has used to increase some of our client’s year-over-year organic search traffic.
10. Dilbert Cartoon: Caught For Paid Links On Google
