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Top 10 New Year SEO Resolutions

Resolutions! We all make them, 20% of us break them by the end of January and 50% fail within 6 months. If you haven’t made yours yet for 2012 – here are the top 10 most commonly broken New Year Resolutions (with an SEO slant)

#1 – Lose Weight & Get Fit

By now we all know what Panda is and which sites are the most likely to be affected. 2012 looks to bring more of the same algorithmic fun which means it’s time go on an SEO weight loss and fitness programme, and what better time than a New Year to put your site pages on the virtual treadmill, trim those low quality pages and firm up the existing content? (more…)

Welcome to 2012, Here We Go!

So 2011 is over and 2012 has started. Funny, last year only is a few days ago, but already seems far away. That’s what happens when you make a fresh start. The year in front of us looks tempting. We are looking at the future and seeing the possibilities.

State of Search is starting the New Year fresh too. We will off course be looking back at 2011 somewhat, but our focus is to ‘start fresh’ and look forward. We have many plans for 2012, and 2012 will have many plans for us. Let me take you into 2012 a little bit, both from a State of Search perspective as from an industry perspective. (more…)

State of Search top posts for June 2011

There is a lot of great content being published on State of Search. You might not ‘catch’ them all. So here is an overview of the best read posts which were published in June 2011. We have ranked them a bit differently this week to make sure you really see the most popular posts in these lists. We have ranked them in order of how much they have been read, how much they have been socialized and how much they have been commented on, find the explanation below the lists. That means that the top 10 posts of June 2011 are:

1. The Future of SEO – by Sam Crocker
2. Google Now Warning WordPress Users They Need To Update – by Bas van den Beld
3. Andy Atkins Kruger: “everything that’s written about Yandex from an SEO perspective is wrong” – by Bas van den Beld
4.How to Use Xenu for the basis of a SEO Campaign – by Sam Murray
5. Google+ : The First Responses from the Expert Marketeers by Bas van den Beld
6. Kicking off a Linkbuilding Campaign with Questions – by Claire Carlile
7. How Personalized is Google Search Really? – by Bas van den Beld
8. We’re doing Google’s job for them- by Barry Adams
9. How busy is the Social Media Manager? (Infographic) – by Bas van den Beld
10. EXCLUSIVE: Raventools to integrate Webmastertools – by Bas van den Beld