Authorship & Author Rank
Authorshipocalypse! The Great Google Authorship Purge Has Begun
December 2013: Authorship in Search Results Gets Restricted UPDATE 21 January 2013: I have now published results of my study detailing who lost Google Authorship …
Google Author Rank: On? Not Yet? Why I Don’t Care
Google Author Rank: The Sasquatch of SEO When it comes to the topic of Google Author Rank and whether it is a reality today, the ...
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Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2013: Authorship, Authority and the Future of Search
After reading several live blog notes (here and even better here) on the keynote address by Google’s Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2013 yesterday, I was seeing ...
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Hey Pubcon: Here’s All My Google Authorship Content!
I’m hearing from a lot of my spies at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas that I’ve been getting shoutouts from a number of speakers, recommending ...
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Google Authorship Not a Ranking Factor (Yet): John Mueller
UPDATE 7 October 2013: At SMX East last week, in the Google Authorship session, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Pierre Farr also confirmed that Google Authorship ...
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Google Plus Posts in Search Results: What Causes Ranking?
How and why do certain Google+ Plus posts in search results do better than others? That’s been a question at the front of my attention ...
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Powerful Personal Branding via Content, Social Networking, & SEO
Personal Brand Authority Is Key to Customer Connection Recently I was asked to give a workshop for entrepreneurs and startup business people at the Ewing ...
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Google Answers Questions About Google Authorship
It’s been a long time since we’ve had any real information updates on Google Authorship and how it should be used from the horse’s mouth ...
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Writing for the Semantic Web and Semantic Search
Below is a recent interview I did talking about how we should be writing content for the semantic web. I was the guest of Michael ...
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Google In-Depth Articles Search Results: Any Hope for Small Publishers?
UPDATE: Some Hope for Small Publishers 11 August 2013 We have seen before where a new feature like this only works for big guys in the ...
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Google In-Depth Article Search Results: How to Qualify Your Content
Google today announced that “In-depth Articles” are to be featured in Search. The Official Google Webmaster Tools blog today announced that Google is beginning to ...
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Google Authorship Update: Where Is Google Going with rel=author?
UPDATE: Google Authorship Intelligent Author Attribution? 21 August 2013 – My friend Mike Arnesen yesterday published what looks like a possibly amazing revelation about how ...
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rel=author or rel=publisher: Which Should I Use? (Updated)
UPDATE: rel=publisher & Google In-Depth Articles 12 August 2013 – Google’s recently introduced In-Depth Articles search feature includes a special role for rel=publisher (verified brand ...
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The Real Value from Content Marketing
Content marketing is all the hype these days and understandably so. A well thought-out and researched, content marketing strategy is an effective way to target ...
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