The big shopping  days are gone but the Christmas is waiting for us. If you haven’t utilized the SEO arsenal rightly during the holidays that are gone, don’t worry, you are not late for the Christmas preparation. Econsultacy columnist Manish Dudharejia has shared two strategies to help brands work on their SEO for upcoming holidays. Dudharejia says, “Let’s talk about what holiday SEO opportunities are still possible this late into the season. Trending keywords One simple quick fix you can make for the holidays is to identify keywords that trend for your business, and others... [...]

To win more at Search Engine Optimization (SEO) we need to optimize the tags. Among these the Alt tags are one of the most important ones. But with changing algorithms and search trends there exist the myths on utilizing the Alt tags. To help marketers better optimize these tags, Practical Ecommerce contributor Jill Kocher Brown has shared six SEO myths about the Alt tags. Kocher says, “Alt tags are a frequent to-do item for search engine optimization. But there’s much confusion surrounding the importance of optimizing alt tags. So it’s time for some myth-busting around this oft-misunderstood... [...]

Search engines are one of the biggest sources of web traffic today. With dynamic algorithms they continue to validate and index everything that you publish online. Right SEO techniques are mandatory to get your content indexed quickly in the leading spots. ReadWrite contributor Richard Parker has shared four tips to help businesses improve their SEO performance and get more traffic online. Parker says, “The experts you engage should help you improve your SEO rankings. These tips will help in your site ranking by attracting a huge traffic to your site. The tips will be able to generate leads... [...]

Search Engine Optimization is one of the most important elements that plays a vital role in getting more customers by offering a wide exposure to your brand. Search Engine Land columnist Jeremy Knauff has shared some critical tasks that can help you strengthen your SEO efforts. Knauff says, “In this article, I’m going to dig into the tasks that we typically handle on a quarterly or yearly basis, because frankly, they often get ignored until there is a crisis. Proactively handling them will give you a powerful advantage over competitors. Crawl for broken links Pages get moved or deleted.... [...]

Search Engine Optimization plays a pivotal role in helping you build an online credibility in the eyes of the search engines. Today local SEO also has a significant role to play in brand building. MOZ contributor Miriam Ellis has shared a short guide to help webmasters build linked unstructured citations for enhancing local SEO. Ellis says, “Link building is as old as organic SEO. Structured citation building is as old as local SEO. Both practices have long sought to influence Google rankings. But a close read of the local search marketing community these days points up an increasing emphasis... [...]

The Entrepreneur magazine store is offering the ‘SERPstash Premium’ at a special price of $20. This software can do the following things for you: Analyze & filter ranking keywords related to your industry Discover who is ranking for the same keywords that you decide to target Find the top 100 highest quality websites linking back to your website & who is linking to your competitors Improve your site’s speed w/ simple tests & insights from Google Find your site’s current ranking on Google & Bing Identify indexed pages, top queries & backlinking pages Test... [...]

Search engine marketing cannot help you achieve success unless you instill the essential elements that play a pivotal role in getting your sites indexed. MOZ contributor Jeff Baker has shared an analysis of seven search ranking factors that we may like to consider for enhancing our SEO impact. Baker says, “We wanted to see how newly written, original content performs over time, and which factors may have impacted that performance. Why do this the hard way, dude? “Why not just pull hundreds (or thousands!) of data points from search results to broaden your dataset?”, you might be thinking.... [...]

The search engine optimization is something that needs you to keep updated in real time with the changing search engine algorithms. Torque contributor Nick Schaferhoff has shared five SEO tactics that we need to stop using now. Schaferhoff says, “These are outdated SEO techniques that are either completely ineffective or will actually cause search engines to punish you. Not only will you learn what they are but also what you should be doing instead. Let’s get started right away. Ineffective and Outdated SEO Tactics You Should Stay Away From Seriously, stop using the stuff below. It no... [...]

Search Engine Optimization is a skill everyone of us is need to survive over the web. Fortunately there are multiple sources to enhance our SEO knowledge and put it into practice. The MOZ team has published the Whiteboard Friday video featuring Dana DiTomaso on ‘What SEOs Can Learn from AdWords’. DiTomaso has discussed negative SEO, title tags and meta descriptions, word combinations and extensions in his video. The MOZ team says, “Organic and paid search aren’t always at odds; there are times when there’s benefit in knowing how they work together. Taking the time... [...]

The Articulate contributor Alex Cohen has shared eight b2b SEO statistics that can be helpful to the online marketers. Cohen says, “Type ‘B2B SEO’ into Google and press enter. You’ll be rewarded with 30.8 million results, offering ‘fresh perspectives’ and promising ‘high quality leads’. You’re experiencing the SEO while researching the SEO, finding yourself swallowed by SEO-ception. Facing a wall of opinions and advice is overwhelming, so we’ve gathered some essential B2B SEO statistics to help clear the fog and make sense of the millions. 89% of B2B researchers use the... [...]