Weekly SEO news: 27 October 2015 |
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1. Why SEO is more sustainable than paid search marketing |
Paid search
marketing is a quick and easy way to get listed on Google and other
search engines for the keywords that are related to your business.
Unfortunately, paid search marketing is also very expensive. Search
engine optimization (SEO) can help you to save money while getting more
targeted visitors at the same time.
What is the
difference between
SEO and paid search marketing? SEO (search engine optimization) concentrates on the regular "organic" results on Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other search engines. If your website is listed in the regular results, you don't have to pay for each click. If you use paid search marketing to advertise your website on search engines, you pay for every click. Your website will appear in the "sponsored results" section of the search results page. Organic SEO provides lasting results Paid search
marketing is great
because it provides quick results. You will get the first visitors
minutes after the launch of your paid search campaign. Unfortunately,
you won't get any more visitors as soon as you stop paying.
To achieve high rankings in the organic search results, you have to develop good web pages and good links that point to your site. It takes much longer to get high rankings with SEO. Fortunately, most websites keep their rankings for a long time. In the long run, SEO is a much better value than paid search marketing. If you have a business that is meant to stay, SEO is the way to go. Organic SEO forces you to improve your website If you use
paid search marketing,
your website will get visitors because you pay for them. With SEO, you
get website visitors because your website is good.
If you use SEO to promote your website, you are forced to optimize your web pages: the content, the usability, etc. Although this requires more work, your website and your revenue will benefit greatly from these changes. Organic SEO integrates with social media Social media
can help you to
increase the number of links that you get from other sites, which will
result in higher rankings in Google's regular results: create a new
page on your website, then mention it on Facebook or tweet about your
new page.
You will get new visitors through social media sites and some of these visitors will link to your website, which has a positive influence on your SEO campaigns. Paid search marketing is great if you have the money and if you need website visitors now. If you want to get high rankings that last without paying for every single click, use SEO to promote your site. At the end of the day, SEO has a much better return-on-investment. SEOprofiler is a full-featured SEO tool that offers many powerful features at a very competitive price. If you haven't done it yet, create your SEOprofiler account now: Back to table of contents - Visit SEOprofiler.com Please forward
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2. Search engine news and articles of the week |
Google: Penguin still not ready
for primetime "We are
expecting the next Penguin release to be real time and continuous and I
suspected it would happen by the end of this month - but I might be
wrong.
Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that the Penguin refresh or update is still not ready. He said 'penguin is not ready for primetime yet.'"
In an online
discussion, Google's John Mueller said that automatically translated
text should not be indexed:
"Autogenerated (auto-translated) text should not be indexed. Additionally, it's important that sites use separate URLs for individual languages, so that users who are looking for an English page (even if their browser is set to German), are able to access those pages. This also allows our polyglot Googlebot to read all language pages and index them separately. If your system currently keeps the same URL and swaps in a translation, that would be a bit confusing to users (and Googlebot)." In an online
discussion, Google's John Mueller said that you do not have to specify
a preferred version of your domain if your website has a redirect from
the non www. version to the www.version of your domain:
"As long as you have your redirects set up, there's no need to set a preferred version for your domain -- it'll happen automatically. Hurray for one less thing to worry about."
"To
summarize, we see two different update cycles from Google in the past
week or so:
(1) October 14th through October 15th, that I personally believe is an ongoing Panda rollout. (2) October 20th through October 21st, that I personally am unsure if it is Panda related or something else. I suspect it is a mix of Panda and potentially some other ranking adjustment Google may have made." How and why Google rewrites page titles in the search results " If we see
anchor text from website A linking to website B, sometimes we can pick,
depending on the user’s query, sometimes we pick the anchor text that
links from A to B as the title for that particular search result.
Again, we obviously want to serve results that make the most sense for the users, users are what we try and make the best possible results for and in some cases if we think the anchor text is a good title, and it is more relevant for that particular query, then we’ll serve the anchor text. [...] this is case by case basis, for the same page, for the same search result, the title can be different between different queries." Search engine newslets
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3. Recommended resources |
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