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SEO 101

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SEO 101 is Search Engine Optimization from the very beginning. SEO 101 will teach you SEO from Square one. Hosts Ross Dunn and Scott Van Achte give out helpful information for the beginners without overwhelming you with technical details.

Episodes

Changes in SERPs Prompt Penguin 1.1

Changes in SERPs Prompt Penguin 1.1 Rumors; Losing Videos on Google Places - Apparently it is a Bug; Matt Cutts on the aftermath of Penguin; aftermath of Penguin- a warning for WP users; Bing is rolling out a new look with a 3rd column integrating social. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 14, 201248 min

52 Google Algorithm Updates; Building New Search Traffic to New Site

52 Google Algorithm Updates as we look at the recently announced released algorithm update containing 52 changes to improve search quality. Ross and John also answer a listener question on ways of building a new web site to drive a decent amount of legitimate traffic. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 08, 201241 min

March of the Google Penguin Update

March of the Google Penguin Update and how this highlights the need to have access to your Google Webmaster Tools account and view it regularly; Google Goes after Links in WordPress Themes; Google Drive? Does it matter? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 01, 201246 min

Google Over-Optimization Penalty Debate Continues

Google Over-Optimization Penalty Debate Continues; Dropped In Rankings? Googles Mistake Over Parked Domains Might Be To Blame; The Negative SEO Debate Sparks Up Again; New Matt Cutts Video on How Search Engines work; How to check your Health in Search, What are the metrics you should be watching? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Apr 24, 201243 min

DMOZ, Linkbuilding and Over-Optimization

DMOZ, Linkbuilding and Over-Optimization in the mailbag; Google Webmaster Tools Sends out 20,000 Hack Warnings Today; Weird Google Crawl Errors. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Apr 17, 201240 min

Google SEO Over-Optimization Penalty

Ross and John discuss the newest Google algorithm update that plans to penalize websites deemed too optimized for SEO. They also run through what some types of over optimization may be flagged. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mar 27, 201237 min

Google Search Quality; Linkbuilding Value of Redirects and Shortened URLs

Ross and John take a glimpse into a Search Quality meeting at Google where they discussed how to correct in long queries. They also answer listener questions on the linkbuilding value of Redirects and shortened URLs, GWT and managing links. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mar 12, 201248 min

Google Panda 3.3 Update Overview

Ross and John look at the Google Panda 3.3 Update and its 40 changes to the algorithm, plus they answer some Facebook questions on link evaluation, no-follow links and sub-directories. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mar 05, 201249 min

Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings

Reports are out that Google bypassed privacy settings in Internet Explorer and Safari web browsers. Ross and John discuss this plus listener questions about SEO for Drupal and best practices for delivering the best content to the end user without sacrificing Google placement or usability. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Feb 20, 201241 min

Social Signals and Engagement

Social signals are becoming more and more important as substantiators of the legitimacy of incoming links to your website so it is important to consider that each piece of content has not just incoming links but social attributions. John helps us understand this subject with Tammy Kahn Fennell, CEO of MarketMeSuite, which speicalizes in getting the message out about your content while creating handling the touchy etiquette of social engagement. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands...

Feb 06, 201234 min

Canonical Tags and Long Tail Keyword Traffic

Questions about canonical tags, long tail keyword traffic, silos, keywords boosting of PageRank and deep page getting traffic are answered by Ross and John. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jan 30, 201230 min

Google to Penalize Too Many Ads Above the Fold

Google to Penalize Too Many Ads Above the Fold as they announce a planned update that targets sites with too many ads above the fold. Also, Ross and John discuss Jerry Yang leaving Yahoo and a shakeup at Blackberry maker as RIM loses the co-founders and their COO takes over. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jan 23, 201230 min

Google Search Plus Debacle

Google has rolled out a new feature called Search plus Your World, currently available for users of Google who are using English and signed in with a Google profile. The Google Search Plus debacle up for discussion as Ross and John speak with the Partner of Reliable SEO and SEO Training Dojo, Terry Van Horne. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jan 17, 201248 min

Art of SEO with Stephan Spencer

Stephan Spencer is the co-author of O Reilly Medias The Art of SEO which is being newly released in 2012 with tons of updates. Stephan is a treasure trove of info and Ross and John do their best to eek out his insights on many useful subjects. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jan 09, 20122 min

Responsive Design; NoArchive vs. NoIndex

Responsive Design. NoArchive vs. NoIndex. The BASE element and URI. Plus, why do Canadians have a different thanksgiving? All this and more as Ross and John celebrate the 100th episode on SEO 101. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dec 19, 201140 min

Do-It-Yourself SEO Tips

Ross and John give us some Do-It-Yourself SEO Tips when you are taking a look at your own site, asking yourself whats important to look at and how to fix it. They look into tips on Link Building, directories of import, analytics setup and more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dec 12, 201149 min

Google Algorithm Update Demystified

Google Algorithm Update Demystified; Blackbar going away on Google dropdown list added; Google New iPad App for Search; Google pulls the plug on their toolbar for Firefox. Ross and John also answer listeners questions on internal links and blog comments. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dec 05, 20112 min

Secrets Behind Building a Successful Website

Learn Secrets Behind Building a Successful Website as Ross speaks with Gil Namur, the President and CEO of the popular ezine LifeAsAHuman. Gil shares tips and tricks around the rise of traffic to his website from 0 visits to over 200k unique visits per month! We will discuss the marketing tactics and technology around his creation. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Nov 21, 201152 min

Google Adds +1 to Images, Enhances Authorship Markup

Google adds +1 to images; Google has enhanced the authorship markup in Google Results and made it easier to get in; Google Penalizing Sites with excessive ads? Google bot crawling AXAX and Javascript comments; Adobe Drops support for Flash Dev in Mobile Apps. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Nov 14, 201138 min

Google+ Business Pages; Sources Related Information in Search Results

Google+ Business Pages now available; Google is testing new Sources related information in search results; Bing favors Microsoft content more than Google favours it's own says study; Google News linking to Authors Google+ profile. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Nov 07, 201148 min

What Scares SEOs?

What is SCAAAARYYY about SEO? What scares SEOs? Blackhat, backlinks, Google algorithm changes? Ross and John list the things that really get them creeped out and scare the bejeezus out of them! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 31, 201137 min

SEO 101 Google Encrypted Search and the Ice Cream Sandwich

Google Encrypted Search as SEO Under Attack – The Google Analytics Keyword Data Apocalypse; The Android Ice Cream Sandwich and its new features like face unlock, bump, voice control with email control; MC Hammer Announces WireDoo, A Relationship-Based Search Engine. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 25, 201139 min

Google Makes Minor Panda Update, Might Buy Hulu

Google Makes Minor Panda Update; Google earnings report released; Google may still buy Hulu; The End of Search Without Social; Google Buzz going away. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 17, 201140 min

Affiliate Links and Article Submission

WebmasterTools data into Google Analytics; Oh No! What Happened To My PageRank? Facebook hit 800 million users this week; Android Nears 50 percent US Smartphone Market Share. Ross and John also aswer listener questions on article submission software and posting affiliate links Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Oct 10, 201143 min

Real Time Analytics, Facebook Changes, and Google+ Explodes

Ross and John are back, these week diving into GOogle Real Time Analytics and ranking reports. They also answer some questions left over from a prior Q&A session, before wrapping up by talking about the pros and cons of FaceBook's changes, and how Google+ has grown rapidly. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 03, 201141 min

Google News Standout Tag for Featured Content

Google News Launches Standout Tag for Featured Content as Google introduced a new link rel attribute that news organizations can use to mark their best work. You can mark up to seven pieces of content per week. Ross also answers listener questions on WordPress based forum software and what kind of developed sites get noticed by Google quicker. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Sep 26, 201136 min

Stopping Non Subject Sites; Google+ and Google +1 Ranking Impact

Ross offers us a site review of ClownAntics.com which supplies anything you could possibly need to dress like a clown. He also takes listeners on how to control or stop non subject sites from linking to them and the impact of rankings if any that Google + or Google +1 are making. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Sep 19, 201136 min

Making Buried Information From Google Places More Visible

Mike Blumenthal reports Google has just released a new browser plugin (Chrome and IE) tool, Google Related that provides information that Google thinks is relevant to a given website that you are visiting. Ross and John also go through headlines in search and listener questions. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Aug 22, 201139 min

Google Dropping Support for Firefox; Panda 2.3 Rollout; Analytics Changes

Ross and John discuss Google dropping support for Firefox, Panda 2.3 Rollout, Analytics Changes and How They Track Google Image Search, Bing Testing Ads Within Organic Search Results and much more. Tune in from from the WebmasterRadio.FM Home Page or from the chat. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Aug 08, 201140 min

Wizard of Google Places

Ross and John speak with with Professor Maps himself, Mike Blumenthal - the wizard of Google Places and blogger of Understanding Google Maps and Local Search. If you have a business with a local presence then this exclusive interview is one you cannot afford to miss. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jul 25, 201153 min
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