The latest ‘SEO Book’ blog post is titled “Measure For Business Benefit”. Peterd says, “Matt Cutts is just toying with SEO’s these days. Going by some comments, many SEOs still miss the big picture. Google is not in the business of enabling SEOs. So he may as well have a little fun – Matt has “called it” on guest posting. Okay, I’m calling it: if you’re using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it’s become a more and more spammy practice, and if you’re doing a lot of guest blogging then you’re hanging... [...]

The latest ‘SEO Book’ blog post is titled “Disavow & Link Removal: Understanding Google”. Aaron Wall says, “Few SEOs took notice when Matt Cutts mentioned on TWIG that “breaking their spirits” was essential to stopping spammers. But that single piece of information add layers of insights around things like: duplicity on user privacy on organic versus AdWords benefit of the doubt for big brands versus absolute apathy toward smaller entities the importance of identity versus total wipeouts of those who are clipped mixed messaging on how to use disavow & the general... [...]

The latest ‘SEO Book’ blog post is titled “Yahoo! Secured Search Rolls Out”. Aaron Wall says, “Yahoo! is currently rolling out secured search, which prevents sending referrers to unsecured sites. The roll out is ongoing, but currently they do pass data to secured sites. Unlike Google’s secured search roll out: rather than showing a referrer without keyword data the traffic will show up as direct site visitors there is no default automated workaround for advertisers Even though the data is being blocked for both ads & organics right now, advertisers can quickly use Bing... [...]

The latest ‘SEO Book’ blog post is titled “Google’s Chris DiBona On Search Ecosystem Diversity”. Aaron Wall says, “It’s hard to deny that some folks working at Google are geniuses. It’s also hard to deny the disconnect in their messaging. As Google locked down their “open” ecosystem (compatibility as a club,abandonware, deleting privacy settings, extensions required to be installed from store, extensions required to be single-purpose, forced Google+ integration, knowledge graph scrape-n-displace, “We could either sue him or hire him,” etc.),... [...]

The latest ‘SEO Book’ blog post is titled “SEO 2014”. Aaron Wall says, “We’re at the start of 2014. SEO is finished. Well, what we had come to know as the practical execution of “whitehat SEO” is finished. Google has defined it out of existence. Research keyword. Write page targeting keyword. Place links with that keyword in the link. Google cares not for this approach. SEO, as a concept, is now an integral part of digital marketing. To do SEO in 2014 – Google-compliant, whitehat SEO – digital marketers must seamlessly integrate search strategy into other aspects of... [...]

The latest ‘SEO Book’ blog post is titled “Did Matt Cutts Endorse Rap Genius Link Spam?”. Aaron Wall says, “On TWIG Matt Cutts spoke about the importance of defunding spammers &breaking their spirits. If you want to stop spam, the most straight forward way to do it is to deny people money because they care about the money and that should be their end goal. But if you really want to stop spam, it is a little bit mean, but what you want to do, is break their spirits. You want to make them frustrated and angry. There are parts of Google’s algorithms specifically designed to... [...]

The latest ‘SEO Book’ blog post is titled “Gray Hat Search Engineering”. Aaron Wall says, “Almost anyone in internet marketing who has spent a couple months in the game has seen some “shocking” case study where changing the color of a button increased sales 183% or such. In many cases such changes only happen when the original site had not had any focus on conversion at all. Google, on the other hand, has billions of daily searches and is constantly testing ways to increase yield: The company was considering adding another sponsored link to its search results, and they were... [...]

The latest ‘SEO Book’ blog post is titled “Quickly Reversing the Fat Webmaster Curse”. Eric Covinos say, “Long story short, -38 pounds in about 2 months or so. Felt great the entire time and felt way more focused day to day. Maybe you don’t have a lot of weight to lose but this whole approach can significantly help you cognitively. In fact, the diet piece was originally formed for cognitive enhancements rather than weight loss. Before I get into this post I just want to explicitly state that I am not a doctor, medical professional, medical researcher, or any type of medical/health anything.... [...]

The latest ‘SEO Book’ blog post is titled “My Must Have Tools of 2014”. Eric Covinos say, “There are a lot of tools in the SEO space (sorry, couldn’t resist :D) and over the years we’ve seen tools fall into 2 broad categories. Tools that aim to do just about everything and tools that focus on one discipline of online marketing. As we continue to lose more and more data (not provided) and the data we have access to becomes a bit more unreliable (rankings, competitive research data, data given to us by search engines, etc) one has to wonder at what point does access to a variety... [...]

The latest ‘SEO Book’ blog post is titled “Should Venture Backed Startups Engage in Spammy SEO?”. Aaron Wall say, “Recently a thread on Hacker News highlighted a blog post which pointed how RapGenius was engaging in reciprocal promotional arrangements where they would promote blogs on their Facebook or Twitter accounts if those bloggers would post a laundry list of keyword rich deeplinks at RapGenius. Matt Cutts quickly chimed in on Hacker News “we’re investigating this now.” A friend of mine and I were chatting yesterday about what would happen. My prediction was... [...]