Weekly SEO news: 10 June 2014 |
Welcome to
the
latest issue of the Search Engine Facts newsletter.
After Google’s recent algorithm updates, some webmasters
started to
believe that links do not matter anymore for Google. Nothing could be
farther from the truth. In the news: Google explains how to move a website, SEO
delivers the best ROI, official Google statement about keywords in your
domain name, and more. Table of contents:
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1. Official Google statement: links mean rankings, rankings mean visitors |
After Google’s recent algorithm updates, some webmasters started to believe that links did not matter anymore for Google. Nothing could be further from the truth. Links are the most important factor in Google’s ranking algorithm and it is important that you have the right links if you want to get high rankings and more website visitors. Make no mistake about it: Google says that backlinks are very importantEarlier this year, Google’S Matt Cutts confirmed that links are very important if you want to get high rankings: Partial transcript: “Backlinks are a really, really big win in terms of quality for search results [... ] backlink relevance still really helps in making sure we return the best, most relevant, most topical set of search results.” Last month, Matt Cutts confirmed this in another video: Partial transcript: “Backlinks still have many, many years left in them [...] for the next few years, will continue to use links in order to assess the basic reputation of pages and websites.” If you do not do it correctly, link building can lead to ranking penalties. That’s why it is important to become serious about link building. If you want to succeed with your online business, you must treat it as a real business. Don’t use cheap, automated link building tools and services that create backlinks in bulk. It will backfire on you. Link building is not the same as link spamming. Link spamming will get your website penalized, link building will get your website on Google’s first result page. Although necessary, it’s not enough to have web pages great content. That content will never be seen if your web pages do not get good backlinks. Good links are backlinks that deliver targeted visitors to your site. Links that are valuable to real website visitors will automatically increase the search engine rankings of your website. Unfortunately, link building can be time-consumptive. To do things as quickly and efficiently as possible, use the link building tools in SEOprofiler. The link building tools in SEOprofiler help you to find good websites that could link to your site, they help you to mange your backlinks, they find backlinks that can be harmful to your rankings, they rate the quality of each backlink, and much more. With the right tools, link building is much easier and you will get results much more quickly. If you haven’t done it yet, test SEOprofiler now: |
2. Search engine news and articles of the week |
Google’s John Mueller: you don’t need keywords in your
domain name"In an online discussion, Google’s John Mueller said that it was not necessary to include a keyword in your domain name if you want to get high rankings for that keyword." Survey: organic SEO delivers best ROI for local
businesses "Local SEOs put more effort into local & organic search related tasks, and this is appears to be time well spent as organic search is considered the most effective channel in terms of ROI." "If Google can handle the millions of requests it gets to take down content that infringes copyright, it should be able to handle the few requests it gets to enforce the EU's 'right to be forgotten', according to Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship." "A site move is, broadly, one of two types of content migrations Site moves without URL changes [...] Site moves with URL changes. [...] Why you don’t see “World Cup” ads on Google "FIFA, the organization that puts on the World Cup every four years, has trademark or intellectual property protection on terms including 'World Cup', 'FIFA', 'COPA 2014' and even 'Brazil 2014'. [...] Search engine newslets
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3. Recommended resources |
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