Recent content by Nevyana

Thanks for the kind words, Margaret:) We've been trying to translate the complex industry terminology into a more understandable language for the common business owners and Local SEO newbies to feel comfortable with. Fortunately, Finn's passage from the Dark to The Light in the last Star Wars...

Thanks for sharing this post, James:) What caught my attention is the WikiGrabber - I will play with it to see if it offers valuable opportunities. Even if nofollowed, the Wiki links are a good asset to have. Though the creation and maintenance of a respectable editor profile could take some...

To add to Eric's feedback and questions, I'd also comment on the actual 'near me' phrase placement. Do you mean adding it to the onsite content or to the title tag &/or meta description. From what I see the site listed in your case study (Bay Area Chevrolet Dealer - Dublin Chevrolet) does not...

Great study and I agree with Mike that the studied sample should be bigger as to draw major conclusions, but the key point still applies here - there is a rise of the CTR on ads, the question is: are there verticals that will only be slightly affected by the latest SERPs reorganization or the...

Casey, that's a really interesting test. It would be great if we could compare results with a previous case study - I am especially interested in the rise of the paid ads CTR, which according to your survey amounts to 29%. I took the liberty to compare those figures to the past year's study...

heckler is right. Hoping for the right judgement of the ranking algo not always renders positive results. You might wish to read this great piece by Glenn Gabe on the issue: "If you're going to syndicate your content, make sure the websites consuming your content handle attribution properly...

Hi Chris, You can report the scraping site to Google via the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Pw1KVOVRyr4a7ezj_6SHghnX1Y6bp1SOVmy60QjkF0Y/viewform - it is a pretty straightforward process and I hope it helps. As Linda mentioned deindexing duplicate content from Google SERPs...

Very fun quiz:) However, one thing caught my attention a bit: The answer to the second question: "Approximately what percentage of all Google searches contain "Local Intent"" is based on a suggestion made by David Mihm in 2012. I wouldn't argue with this statement, if it only was more recent...

Hi Chris, In my opinion, you'd better read a bit about the semantic search improvements that G has introduced in the past year. Semaantic search kind of changes this exact order keyword phrases that you are going after. In the past it mattered a lot what you'd choose: whether you'd go with...

Travis, That's a really interesting test, and I agree with Linda that CTR and bounce rate are important factor, nevertheless after reading the article, it really appears to me that this G employee was somewhat confused. "other businesses are deemed more relevant because they have been...

Hi Louis, There is no need your domain name to reflect your company name. Many people prefer to focus on exact match domain names (especially lawyers) and this made Google to decrease the weight of kws found in domain name as a factor calculated in their ranking algo. As long as you keep the...

Hi Chris, .edu backlinks are as hard to naturally obtain for your business as they are benefitial to your backlink profile. Your suggestion for a scholarship is a great idea and that is a perfect way to support the given college or university, its students and community as a whole. If the...

There are certain ideas that you could rely on to diversify your service area pages - listing your local specific reviews/testimonials being one of them. You could also target local specific content as well: describing local sights, places of interests, history highlights, amusing trivia...

Hi Michael, I just wanted to focus your attention on the fact that the website weallwantsomeone DOT org [live link removed by Linda] actually brings 30,359 out of 30,423 backlinks to your site. It is a PR5 site and probably it is the one you are referring to – and yes I would most probably...