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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

Chef Dennis Littley Insights into Blogging and Google Plus

Chef Dennis Littleygives his insights into blogging and Google Plus. Dennis manages theG+ Food Bloggers Community. You can check out A Culinary Journey with Chef Dennis at his website Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Feb 24, 201435 min

Guest Blogging: Stick a Fork In It; Expedia Paid Link Damage; Google Slams Paid Ads

Guest Blogging: Stick a fork in it - its done;Expedia Lost 25 Percent Of Their Search Visibility In Google Possibly Over Unnatural Links;Google slams paid ads - shows stats in an infographic?! Ross also discusses plans for marketing and how you should never under-budget. Related articles across the web Matt Cutts: "Stick A Fork In It, Guest Blogging Is Done" Expedia Lost 25% Of Their Search Visibility In Google Possibly Over Un Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Op...

Jan 22, 201433 min

Bing Begins Supporting SSL Search; Google On Links Within Widgets

Bing Begins Supporting SSL Search Query Data Does Not Pass [Not Provided];6 Major Google Changes Reveal the Future of SEO;Google Apologizes For Berlin Street Being Renamed "Adolf Hitler Platz" On Google Maps;Official: Google's Latest Official Stance On Links Within Widgets; WhyThe Internet of Things just got real with Googles 3.2 billion dollar Nest buy Related articles across the web Google Apologizes For Berlin Street Being Renamed "Adolf Hitler Platz" On Google Maps Advertising Inquiries: htt...

Jan 13, 201435 min

Search Spammers and Duplicate Content

Google Reveals Top Searches of 2013: From Nelson Mandela to Twerking ;Google’s Matt Cutts On Search Spammers and how 25-30 percentOf The Web's Content Is Duplicate Content and Thats Okay; Google Still Working On Promoting Subject-Specific Authorities In Search Results. Ross and John also answer listener questions on writing content non-geographic specific to attract links or focus more on getting reviews, SERPS with Author Image and paginating comments. Related articles across the web Matt Cutts...

Dec 23, 201344 min

Website Bans, Funneling Traffic and a Listener Site Review

Talking Website Bans, Funneling Traffic and a Listener Site Review as Ross talks about diagnosing website bans, funneling traffic and finding the best ways to judge if your site requires a new navigation, plus Ross goes over a couple of site reviews Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dec 16, 201334 min

Anglo Rank: Another Private Link Network Foiled By The Cutts; Duplicate Meta Descriptions

Another Private Link network foiled by the Cutts as Googles head of search spam, Matt Cutts, just confirmed on Twitter that Google has targeted another private link network namedAnglo Rank. Plus,Different quality guidelines when results may be important for both your money and your life. Also,Matt Cutts talks this week about Duplicate Meta Descriptions: is essence, it is better to have none at all than duplicated tags Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: htt...

Dec 09, 201347 min

Duplicate Meta Descriptions; Merchant Quality Chatters Spurns Google Zebra Rumor

Matt Cutts discusses duplicate Meta Descriptions , that in essence, it is better to have none at all than duplicated. Plusmerchant quality talks lead to the rumor of a Google Zebra update. Also, Ross and Scott answer a listener question regarding available resources thatwalk a client through what to expect in the SEO process, what it'll be like, what they need to do and understand, and how to avoid hiring a bad SEO. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https...

Nov 18, 201337 min

Black Hat Hacking, Toolbar PageRank, Autocomplete, Authorship and Other Points f

Points from Matt Cutts PubCon Keynote Speeches included Black Hat Hacking will be a core topic Googles web spam team will focus on. They hope to go after the hard core hacking tactics and reduce that impact on the search results. Child pornography will be blocked significantly in all countries, not just the US. Toolbar PageRank may or may not be fixed. The pipeline to export the quarterly data broke and Google has no immediate plans to fix it. Mobile is going to be a key area in 2014, so pay att...

Oct 28, 201355 min

Responsive Design Does Not Equal Ranking Boost; Google To Patent Physical Likes:Tied to Glass

Responsive Design Does Not Equal Ranking Boost; Google To Patent Physical Likes: Tied to Glass; John gives his thoughts on rel=next for ecommerce product lists; Google Launches Media Tools For Reporters and Journalists; HeathCare.gov SEO issues and Google Authorship. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 21, 201346 min

Google Hummingbird Recap; Google Penguin 2.1: Turned More People into Google Hat

Google Hummingbird Recap: Designed for faster results, semantic search...more focused on user intent rather than search terms, gives more reason to write naturally, and be less keyword driven. Google Penguin 2.1 Turned More People into Google Haters; Structured Data Provides Impressive Click Gains; Bing shows us 27 Things that Help and Hurt SEO. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Oct 08, 201343 min

Submitting New Sites for Google to Crawl? Canonical Tag to Custom Post Types? Ho

Submitting new sites to Google to crawl is still a good practice? Is it a good practice to apply the canonical tag to custom post types to build up page value of static pages. If an SEO suggests link building for your site, how many is too many? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Sep 30, 201335 min

Calico: Google Answer for Death; Google Panda Collateral Damage Victim: Attempted Suicide

Calico: Google Answer for Death; Google Panda collateral damage victim speaks of experience and how close he was to suicide. There are other such discussions from the Penguin update. Lesson learned? Diversify your marketing so that Google isnt everything. How should you do that but still keep an online focus? Google is also looking to drop cookies for Ad tracking in favor of a new little-known technology they are working on called AdID. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy...

Sep 23, 201341 min

Crawling Unlinked URLs to Discover New Content; Paying for Site Audits

Why should I pay for an audit if you are just to tell me what is wrong with my site? That should be free! Google Webmaster Tools Link Update. Google Never sends warnings about web spam There is always action taken. Google Crawling Unlinked URLs to discover new content. A tongue in cheek article on Miley Cyrus and Google Trends. Automated Content is against Google Guidelines. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Sep 16, 201335 min

PageRank removed from Google Toolbar; Seeking Ghost Related Puns for a SPAM network; Moz Web Developers SEO Cheatsheet 2.0

PageRank removed from Google Toolbar; Matt Cutts tweeted he is trying to come up with Ghost related puns for a SPAM network; Moz Web Developers SEO Cheatsheet 2.0. Also, Ross answers a listener question on whether Does it hurt my SEO rankings to not host my website on a web server in the country I am targeting? He also refreshes on common asked issues like disavow, canonical and consolidating sites. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/...

Sep 02, 201334 min

How to Setup Google Authorship; Manual Action Detail in Google Webmaster Tools

Matt Cutts announces manual action detail in Google Webmaster Tools and in his latest video states links in Widgets must be no-followed Twitter now uses Universal Search; Ross discusses the release of the How to Setup Google Authorship: The Unofficial Manual released. How Google Enlisted Bloggers to Spread the Word About Moto X; Google Updates Page Speed Tool/ PageSpeed Insights. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Aug 13, 201334 min

Penalizing Backlink Profiles; Google+ pictures in SERPs; Link Wheels and More SEO Q and A

Penalizing Backlink Profiles; Google+ pictures in SERPs; Link Wheels and More SEO Q and A as listeners ask if Google would penalize a backlink profile which has an extremely high percentage of text links compared to other inbound links, why sometimes Google doesnt always include a G+ picture in SERPs, and finally what Ross and John think about link wheels. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Aug 05, 201345 min

Online Tools to Test Page Load Times; Merging Websites; Experience with Google Disavow Tool

Online Tools to Test Page Load Times; Merging Websites; Experience with Google Disavow Tool as Ross answers questions from the SEO 101 Google Plus Community. Also find out how 301 redirects and content delivery networks play into the conversation. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jul 29, 201338 min

Cheap Link Building, Crappy SEO Pitches and RSS Syndication Sites

Cheap Link Building, Crappy SEO Pitches, RSS Syndication sites, CDNs, Duplicate Content and more as Ross and John run through listener questions. Plus, Has Google given any guidance since Panda on quotes? Also, they discuss online tools to test page load times. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jul 22, 201337 min

Google Navigation Changes To Webmaster Tools; Google Warning External Keyword To

Google Navigation Changes To Webmaster Tools; Google Warning External Keyword Tool Shut Down Near and Muck Rack Adds Search For Journalists By Google PageRank. Ross and John also answer a listener question on a good tool they can recommend for SEO reporting that is highly automated. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jul 02, 201342 min

NoFollow on Affiliate Links; Separating Google Personal and Business Accounts;

NoFollow on Affiliate Links; Separating Google Personal and Business Accounts; Google Analytics Admin Panel Gets a Redesign; Google Patents on Author Signature Values and Authority Scores; Bing Boards Testing; Webmaster Tools Link Report Errors Fixed; Google Carousel and Changes in Local Search. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jun 24, 201343 min

Pandas, Penguins and Payday Loan Spam; Mobile Site Speed; Facebook Hashtags

Matt Cutts on Pandas, Penguins and Payday Loan Spam as Ross and John run through the SMX Advanced 2013 You and A Session, plus Mobile Site Speed now a big ranking factor for Mobile Search; Eric Enge Site Crawling Test from SMX; Facebook Hashtags launched. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 17, 201341 min

AuthorRank and Its Role in Blog Posts

Continuing the discussion on how Google is attacking blog posts. Ross and John discuss AuthorRank plays a role in determining which posts (guest or not) should garner more immediate positive attention in Googles algorithm. They also discuss revealing factors such as posts with zero inline text links and a single text link in the authors biography and more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jun 10, 201344 min

Predictions for Googles Attack on Guest Posts; Google Penguin 2 = Lame Non-Event

Predictions for Googles forthcoming attack on Guest Posts on things like AuthorRank and PageRank; Google Penguin 2 = Lame Nonevent; Matt Cutts and Advertorials and find who said If youre a brand and youre not on Google+, you're an idiot. Youre... just an idiot. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 03, 201340 min

Matt Cutts On What SEOs Can Expect From Google Coming Up

Matt Cutts tells us What SEOs Can Expect From Google Coming Up. Ross and John comment on the latest video that runs through Penguin, Advertorials, Spammy Queries, Sophisticated Link Analysis, Improvements on Hacked Sites, Authority Boost, Panda Sympathy and more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 13, 201340 min

How Site Rankings Can Get Screwed by DDoS Attack

Would it be better to create a unique title for each article and then in the first paragraph reference that it is part 3 of 5 in the series and then provide links to each of the previous articles? When running websites for different interests and small businesses with different topics, is it better to use my name as the author for all of them, or set up a different profile for each site; How your site's Rankings can get screwed by a DDoS attack and how to protect against one. Advertising Inquiri...

Apr 22, 201333 min

Facebook Home Sucks! Google and Bing Recommending HTML5? How Do You Explain SEO to a Teenager?

Facebook Home Sucks! eliminates Google Search on non-Facebook Home Partner Android phones; Both Google and Bing now recommend using HTML5 pushState to allow for SEO friendly crawlable AJAX; How do you explain SEO to a teenager? Better yet, to a business prospect who has no idea what you are talking about? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Apr 08, 201338 min

Bing Showing Authorship; Google Improved Recording of Users and Method of Verification

Bing Showing Authorship! Does anyone really need more proof that authorship is a huge part of the future of rankings? Google has Improved Recording of Users and Method of Verification; How to get Googles index of your website into Excel. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mar 25, 201336 min
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