Ross and John discuss How Social Impacts Traditional SEO. They discuss on site aspects including User Generated Content and Site Buttons and off site with things like Direct Link Development and seeding content.
They also answer a listener question on how social media factors into long-term link strategies, and how is it managed in a scalable and effective way.
Ross and John discuss a listener suggested topic on Social Media Optimization and how it can help tie into SEO, like the many ways that you can do to optimize your blog.
Taylor Pratt, Product Marketing Manager for Raven Tools and Co-Founder Jon Henshaw discuss Combining Ranking Results with Analytics and how webmasters can do that with their toolset.
They also go into depth about the Raven tool set including features like Private branded reports, plus how you can view traffic, rankings and conversions in one interface and how it handles social and integrates analytics.
Ross and John commetns on a State of Search blog post entitled SEOs are going to end up more hated than traffic wardens and estate agents. This leads to
They also discuss how the Verizon-Google net neutrality discussions appear to be miss-information plus Matt Cutts and his answer to a question at the SMX Advanced You and A session , discussing Page Sculpting on how there is a way to tell Google what pages are more important by linking to them from the home page.
John moderates a Search Marketing Roundtable discussion held at Affcon 2010 Denver that featured the following panelists: David Szetela of Clix Marketing, David Ogletree from SEOFox, Jamie Smith from Engine Ready and Howard Kopp from Moniker.
John moderates a Search Marketing Roundtable discussion held at Affcon 2010 Denver that featured the following panelists: David Szetela of Clix Marketing, David Ogletree from SEOFox, Jamie Smith from Engine Ready and Howard Kopp from Moniker.
Ross and John continue to breakdown subjects discussed during the SMX Advanced You and A session with Google engineer Matt Cutts which include Page Sculpting, Rich Snippets and Google supposed favoritism of YouTube.
Rand shared SEOmoz’s latest correlation study on Google and Bing and how they differ in terms of obtaining rankings. Learn how these search engines are similar and how Bing is changing the game.
Ross and John talk about all things Bing including pros and cons, capability with social networking, and how similar it is, or isn’t, to Google.
Ross and John discuss Googles Mayday and Toolbar PageRank Update, and the impact that Mayday has had with longtail search terms. Finally, they discuss what you do when you’re stuck trying optimize a major brand.