Proven Google Ranking Signals – Podcast EOTOB #1

It's here - the first episode of the Essentials Of The Online Business Podcast! Topics covered include: changes in the Google Search algorithm in June, July and August, new post targeting on Facebook, new additions to Microsoft’s adCenter and Majestic SEO, Google ranking factors that you can be sure about, and many more! Subscribe to […]

If you found this article useful, please share it with your business partners and friends!

This article was posted on EssentialsOfTheOnlineBusiness.com by Chris Trynkiewicz.

Zobacz inne porady dla posiadających stronę lub planujących kupno strony!

Więcej na tematy podobne do powyższego znajdziesz w artykułach:

It's here - the first episode of the Essentials Of The Online Business Podcast!

Topics covered include:

changes in the Google Search algorithm in June, July and August,
new post targeting on Facebook,
new additions to Microsoft’s adCenter and Majestic SEO,
Google ranking factors that you can be sure about,
and many more!

Subscribe to get new episodes: iTunes, RSS Feed.

Valid Google Ranking Signals

Onsite SEO alghoritmic signals for Google Search Engine:

page load time
internal linking (and where the links are placed)
keywords in the title of the page (the sooner mentioned the better), meta description, address of the page and whole domain, headings, textual content (a keyword should be mentioned a few times, 2-5% density is natural), strong tags, em tags (although that last one has low impact)
freshness of content and the whole site
age of the page and the whole domain
variety of topics for the whole website and particular page
ranking (authority) of the domain
number of pages on a domain
length of content on a particular page (should be between 400 and 1000 words)
quality and quantity of +1’s for the page and the whole domain (although it’s of low impact)
content uniqueness, so no duplicate content (within the website and in the Internet overall, a list of articles with snippets is OK)
presence of images and videos on a page with proper file names and proper alt and title attributes for the img tag

Offsite SEO ranking factors for Google:

quality and quantity of backlinks with their anchor texts, related context and placement of the link (within content is good, in the footer is bad)
whether the backlink has a nofollow attribute or not (nofollow is also good!)
for the appropriate searches (like restaurants): the distance between the visitor and the business
factors dependant on a particular search term (for example: a search for restaurants will consider the rates and their number from review sites)
CTR from the search engine results pages (dependant mostly on the title and meta description of a page)
PageRank (likely an internal one)

News, sites and tools mentioned

News segment:

News: Don't remove low quality links to your site - a cure is on it's way (source: Search Engine Roundtable)
Tools: Bing Webmaster Tools, Google Webmaster Tools
News: Got a Google+ Business page and a Google+ Local page? Merge them. Also read about the downsides of merging
News: Facebook rolling out post targeting for it's pages
News: PageRank update
Tool: My free website analysis tool
News: Google Knowledge Graph goes worldwide and what it means to you (source: Official Google Blog)
Tool: Rich Snippets testing tool
News: Valid copyright removal notices now a ranking factor to Google (source: Google's Inside Search Blog, Search Engine Land)
News: Changes in Google Search in June and July (source: Google's Inside Search Blog)
News: Google: social signals not so impactful in rankings (source: SES San Francisco coverage by Search Engine Watch)
News: Google showing 7 results for 18% of searches + less diversity for branded keywords (source: Search Engine Land)
News: Microsoft's adCenter (like AdWords but for Bing) introduces ad rotation
Tool: Microsoft adCenter
News: Great new link tracking tool from Majestic SEO (source: Majestic SEO Blog)
Tool: Majestic SEO
News: Google refreshes it's Panda algorithm for search rankings
News: Google+ is rolling out vanity (pretty) URLs for some people and reserves the right to CHARGE for them (source: Marketing Land)
News: Google Analytics adds shortcuts for faster report viewing

Recommended content:

How to REALLY get out of a Google Penalty?

Main topic:

Search ranking factors according to a bunch of people I don't know
Tools to measure page load time: WebPageTest, Pingdom, Yottaa
Tools: my free website analysis tool

Awesome tip:

Digging into the KEY Bounce Rate metric of your website (see how to set up Adjusted Bounce Rate)

Bonus content - recommended podcasts:

Foolish Adventure
Smart Passive Income
Lifestyle Business Podcast
AdSense Flippers
Tropical Talk Radio

Task list and things to consider

Follow me on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter @eotob to get the latest news and great content which some of I talk about on this podcast and some I don’t due to time constraints.
Join my newsletter (fill out the form below) to receive not only the latest updates, sales info and content, but also insane tips that I’m not revealing anywhere else. The first tip you’ll get after singing up is how to instantly find other websites run by your competitors and after that the tips get even better.
Don’t waste time on removing low quality links. Disavow them in Bing Webmaster Tools and copy them to Google Webmaster Tools when the disavow feature launches.
If you have a separate Google+ Business page and Google+ Local page, consider merging them, but read about the downsides first.
Consider post targeting on your Facebook page.
Check your updated PageRank, onsite SEO factors mentioned in this episode and validate your HTML code using my free website analysis tool
Add rich snippets to your website and validate them.
If you’re using Microsoft’s adCenter for Bing, check out their new ad rotation feature.
Consider using Majestic SEO’s new link tracking feature on your most valuable pages or pages of your competitors.
If you’re using Google Analytics a lot, make some shortcuts.
If interested, read the recommended article about getting out of a Google penalty.
Check your page load time using WebPageTest, Pingdom and Yottaa. Aim for under 2 seconds.
Set up an Adjusted Bounce Rate with visits exceeding 15 seconds.
Check out the recommended podcasts: Foolish Adventure, Smart Passive Income, Lifestyle Business Podcast, AdSense Flippers and Tropical Talk Radio

If you liked this episode, share it! :)

If you found this article useful, please share it with your business partners and friends!

This article was posted on EssentialsOfTheOnlineBusiness.com by Chris Trynkiewicz.

Zobacz inne porady dla posiadających stronę lub planujących kupno strony!

Więcej na tematy podobne do powyższego znajdziesz w artykułach:

Likely and Unlikely Search Engine Ranking Factors – Podcast EOTOB #2
Content & Sections for a Company Website That You Need to Have
How to be Productive with Twitter – Tools & Tips