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I start this post by saying: Thank you for such a Great First Year & Happy Birthday cognitiveSEO! This week we just moved up on the age scale. We just turned 1! Back in December 2011, after a year and a half of continuous programming & development, we launched the cognitiveSEO toolset. Rewinding time, I can say that it was quite an exciting day. 2 hours before the expected launch time our ISP had a connection issue and we were cut off. You just can't imagine [...]
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A few days ago Krumel told me about a weird ranking that he saw on the international Google search for the brand name "Skype". Google lists the Russian version of the main Skype page in places 2 or 3 depending on the search location. This happens on almost any international or local search. The first result is always the correct result (correct site language) for the tested countries (UK,Netherlands,Germany,Russia). On the US version it did not happen always. I started digging around and [...]
Last night Alex Graves from Bronco posted an article discussing the Payday Loans niche and how he thinks that the Google algorithm has been gamed, even after the Penguin and EMD update. I tweeted to him, the payday loans case study that I did back in June (this was the first case study of its kind, that ignited a series of articles talking about how the payday loans niche is abused in Google). He is saying that this new site ranking on the "payday loans" keyword in the UK was not a hacked [...]
After Bing released their disavow tool, now it's time for Google. A lot of people waited for this tool from Google, as with all the "Penguin" updates this year, a lot of webmasters were left in the dark having their sites penalized with no ability to remove those low quality links successfully. As Google warns you this is an Advanced Tool and should be used with caution. It can harm your site's rankings in Google. What cognitiveSEO will do for you is give you the needed tools to [...]
I just received this mail, in the morning, from a certain "Steven Robert" whom I never talked to before asking me to publish his SEO article. Here is the mail. Straight to the subject wouldn't you say :) (FAIL) What is his name again ... Robert or Robart ... !? ( FAIL) This is a bulk mailing with a WORD file attached containing the "master SEO piece article" ... ( FAIL AGAIN) And he wants to rank for "search engine". Hey Google ... you got competition! (TOTAL FAIL) Quick Idea: [...]
Finally I got to the point where I can write this. We have been continuously working for the last 5 months on this upgrade. To put it simply, this is the biggest upgrade to cognitiveSEO yet, and it improves the way you analyze backlinks by adding even more link data points into a new & simplified user interface. In the age of raw link data and hundreds of SEO metrics, we are improving the backlink analyzer concepts used in our tool by providing: Fresh & Complete Link Data [ [...]
There are many SEO tactics that could negatively influence a sites' ranking. The tactics presented in this article are 7 of the most important ones, that I consider you should avoid, as to the 2012 events (Penguin/Panda/other Google updates). They are both onsite and offsite tactics. (Note: LQ = Low Quality) 1. Directories (LQ) This is one of those "Post Penguin" tactics to avoid. Of course there are still, great human-edited directories that will give you quality links (even if paid). bo [...]
Last year, potpiegirl found a document from Google, by searching the Google index, that was entitled "2011 Google Quality Raters Handbook". Today doing the same thing, I found a new leaked, 161 pages Google document entitled : "General Guidelines Version 3.27 - June 22, 2012" I will not provide a link to this document, due to obvious reasons, but you can try to search, either on Google or the Social Media sites and you will probably find it. What I will share with you in this post, is [...]
We always listen to our customers feedback. Your feedback has really guided the creation of this update. Thank you for being such a great customer! This update is more geared to SEO agencies and Professional SEOs that need reporting functionality. White-label capability PDF Export functionality The update is structured as follows : The $49 package gets the PDF export functionality (without the ability to customize the logo) All packages from $99 and up get the full White- [...]
I am starting a series of high quality SEO reports and Case Studies on variety of verticals. The first one that I chose is the "Online Gambling" vertical. This is one of the most competitive markets online. All these reports are in PDF format. To get the Free SEO report, I just ask for a Tweet. You will get real world case studies and a limited time discount on cognitiveSEO. PDF Quick snapshot Here are some pieces of content from the PDF report. "Contents 1. Introduction [...]
