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How Search Works

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHR6IQJGZs

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The Google Index is
100,000,000 gigabytes
that took 1 million
computing hours to
build.
@sagerock
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/

@sagerock
What once worked but now no longer does.

Hacked site
Some pages on this site may have been
hacked by a third party to display
spammy content or links. Website
owners should take immediate action
to clean their sites and fix any security
vulnerabilities.

@sagerock
What once worked but now no longer does.

Cloaking and/or sneaky redirects
Site appears to be cloaking (displaying
different content to human users than
is shown to search engines) or
redirecting users to a different page
than Google saw.

@sagerock
What once worked but now no longer does.

Hidden text and/or keyword stuffing
Some of the pages may contain hidden
text and/or keyword stuffing.

@sagerock
What once worked but now no longer does.

Parked domains
Parked domains are placeholder sites
with little unique content, so Google
doesn’t typically include them in search
results.

@sagerock
What once worked but now no longer does.

Pure spam
Site appears to use aggressive spam
techniques such as automatically
generated gibberish, cloaking, scraping
content from other websites, and/or
repeated or egregious violations of
Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.

@sagerock
What once worked but now no longer does.

Spammy free hosts and dynamic DNS
providers
Site is hosted by a free hosting service
or dynamic DNS provider that has a
significant fraction of spammy content.

@sagerock
What once worked but now no longer does.

Thin content with little or no added
value
Site appears to consist of low-quality or
shallow pages which do not provide
users with much added value (such as
thin affiliate pages, doorway pages,
cookie-cutter sites, automatically
generated content, or copied content).

@sagerock
What once worked but now no longer does.

Unnatural links from a site
Google detected a pattern of
unnatural, artificial, deceptive or
manipulative outbound links on this
site. This may be the result of selling
links that pass PageRank or
participating in link schemes.

@sagerock
What once worked but now no longer does.

User-generated spam
Site appears to contain spammy usergenerated content. The problematic
content may appear on forum
pages, guestbook pages, or user
profiles.

@sagerock
@sagerock
@sagerock
Notifying Website Owners

@sagerock
Reconsideration Requests by Week

@sagerock
Where spam is still winning:
“Buy Cheap Viagra”

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@sagerock
THE PROBLEM WITH LINKING

@sagerock
Google has taken action on
several dozen newspapers in US
and UK that were not labeling
advertorials and native
advertising as such, and that
were passing PageRank.
@sagerock
@sagerock
@sagerock
@sagerock
My Personal Pet Peeve:

The policy is to never meet
one on one with a partner,
advertiser or client with
Google quality or web
spam.

@sagerock
Is there any hope?
Is SEO finally dead?

@sagerock
@sagerock
@sagerock
The Knowledge Graph

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmQl6VGvX-c

@sagerock
Quality Content Is The Key
Anything creative.
Create a voice.
Go back to the basics.

Blogs. Forums. Local
newspapers.
That's SEO folks.

@sagerock
The key in 2014 is quality
Understand your strengths.
Understand what your prospect
truly wants.
Where those meet is where you
want to focus your content.

@sagerock
SOME STATS

@sagerock
Moz
2014
Industry
Survey

@sagerock
Top SEO Tools
Google Webmaster Tools
Moz
Open Site Explorer
MajesticSEO
Screaming Frog
Bing Webmaster Tools
Yoast
SEMrush
Ahrefs
Firebug

Moz
2014
Industry
Survey

@sagerock
@sagerock
TOP 5 SEO METRICS:
Moz
Conversion rate and performance
2014
metrics: 68.8 percent.
Landing page traffic: 66.2 percent. Industry
Google Webmaster Tools data: 57.9
Survey
percent.
Estimated traffic based on other data: 40.5
percent
Social data (tweets, Likes, +1's, etc.): 36.7
percent.

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Search Marketing Shakeup - February 2014

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  • 5. The Google Index is 100,000,000 gigabytes that took 1 million computing hours to build. @sagerock
  • 7. What once worked but now no longer does. Hacked site Some pages on this site may have been hacked by a third party to display spammy content or links. Website owners should take immediate action to clean their sites and fix any security vulnerabilities. @sagerock
  • 8. What once worked but now no longer does. Cloaking and/or sneaky redirects Site appears to be cloaking (displaying different content to human users than is shown to search engines) or redirecting users to a different page than Google saw. @sagerock
  • 9. What once worked but now no longer does. Hidden text and/or keyword stuffing Some of the pages may contain hidden text and/or keyword stuffing. @sagerock
  • 10. What once worked but now no longer does. Parked domains Parked domains are placeholder sites with little unique content, so Google doesn’t typically include them in search results. @sagerock
  • 11. What once worked but now no longer does. Pure spam Site appears to use aggressive spam techniques such as automatically generated gibberish, cloaking, scraping content from other websites, and/or repeated or egregious violations of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. @sagerock
  • 12. What once worked but now no longer does. Spammy free hosts and dynamic DNS providers Site is hosted by a free hosting service or dynamic DNS provider that has a significant fraction of spammy content. @sagerock
  • 13. What once worked but now no longer does. Thin content with little or no added value Site appears to consist of low-quality or shallow pages which do not provide users with much added value (such as thin affiliate pages, doorway pages, cookie-cutter sites, automatically generated content, or copied content). @sagerock
  • 14. What once worked but now no longer does. Unnatural links from a site Google detected a pattern of unnatural, artificial, deceptive or manipulative outbound links on this site. This may be the result of selling links that pass PageRank or participating in link schemes. @sagerock
  • 15. What once worked but now no longer does. User-generated spam Site appears to contain spammy usergenerated content. The problematic content may appear on forum pages, guestbook pages, or user profiles. @sagerock
  • 19. Reconsideration Requests by Week @sagerock
  • 20. Where spam is still winning: “Buy Cheap Viagra” @sagerock
  • 22. THE PROBLEM WITH LINKING @sagerock
  • 23. Google has taken action on several dozen newspapers in US and UK that were not labeling advertorials and native advertising as such, and that were passing PageRank. @sagerock
  • 27. My Personal Pet Peeve: The policy is to never meet one on one with a partner, advertiser or client with Google quality or web spam. @sagerock
  • 28. Is there any hope? Is SEO finally dead? @sagerock
  • 32. Quality Content Is The Key Anything creative. Create a voice. Go back to the basics. Blogs. Forums. Local newspapers. That's SEO folks. @sagerock
  • 33. The key in 2014 is quality Understand your strengths. Understand what your prospect truly wants. Where those meet is where you want to focus your content. @sagerock
  • 36. Top SEO Tools Google Webmaster Tools Moz Open Site Explorer MajesticSEO Screaming Frog Bing Webmaster Tools Yoast SEMrush Ahrefs Firebug Moz 2014 Industry Survey @sagerock
  • 38. TOP 5 SEO METRICS: Moz Conversion rate and performance 2014 metrics: 68.8 percent. Landing page traffic: 66.2 percent. Industry Google Webmaster Tools data: 57.9 Survey percent. Estimated traffic based on other data: 40.5 percent Social data (tweets, Likes, +1's, etc.): 36.7 percent. @sagerock
  • 39. 10 HOURS OF CONSULTING (THEY NEVER EXPIRE) $1250 @sagerock