As early as 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, the ‘inventor’ of the Internet, predicted the coming of the semantic web. With Google’s Hummingbird update and its increasing focus on entity search, it seems like we’re not too far away from that coming true. This article will introduce to the concept of entity search (for the purposes of […]
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Last week, we looked at several of the major updates Google made in 2013 (and there were many others). That post looked at what happened last year. This article is going to examine the SEO trends that we expect to see within the next 12 months. Are you ready? Let’s go!
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2013 was a major year for the search engine optimization industry. Google made a number of significant updates to its mysterious algorithm and SEO companies everywhere have had to change their approach to adapt. But that’s the life of search marketers – the onus is on us to adapt to these Google updates in order
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This was a contributed post. The author’s views below are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of CLOUDROCK. Editor’s Note: The term ‘SEO Hat’ refers to the various approaches to SEO that is adopted by different practitioners to increase their visibility in the search engines. SEO techniques plays a vital
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Google just made good on its promise to reduce Google Authorship rich snippets by 15%. Many authors have recently been complaining that they have lost their authorship image in the SERPs. It has been known to happen before (for reasons unknown), but it seems like this time round Matt Cutts has confirmed that this is
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Google’s Venice update was major change for the search engine optimization industry. It heralded the coming of Local SEO, which is somewhat different from organic or ‘normal’ SEO. This article will examine how companies can engage in local SEO to improve their traffic. To make our example feel more concrete, we will use a fictional
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Back in 2011, the major search engines – Google, Yahoo! and Bing – got together and decided to unleash upon us Schema.org. This joint effort was initiated to create a structured data markup scheme that can help search engines provide their users with richer and much more relevant information. This shared vocabulary encompasses a wide
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It’s been a busy July here at CLOUDROCK with a ton of new web design and SEO clients coming on-board. We’re definitely looking forward to the coming Hari Raya Holidays. In the meantime, here’s this month’s list of SEO articles that we would love to share with you.
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As you very well know, duplicate content is unacceptable online, especially after the Panda Update. So Here Comes Article Spinning… Rather than writing unique and relevant articles week in and week out, some SEOs resort to what is known as ‘article spinning‘. Article spinning refers to the practice of putting articles through a software (called
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Web hosting seems like such an easy decision, but sometimes it can have serious affects on your SEO. In fact, when it comes to web hosting SEO, I would consider it more of a hygiene factor – you won’t get a rankings boost if you pick a great one, but choosing the wrong web hosting
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