The Importance of Backlinks in 2013: An Interview with Dixon Jones

Today we have with us Dixon Jones. Dixon is the Marketing Director at MajesticSEO and the Founding Director of Receptional LTD. The topic of this interview is revolved around the future of backlinks, effective link building methods, high quality backlinks and interesting new features coming up from Majestic SEO. This is... read more ››

SEO Pagination Guide: Examining a Real Life Scenario – part 3

In the previous 2 articles of the SEO Pagination Guide we discussed the pros and cons of Pagination and we presented the available methods that you can use to resolve the various SEO Problems that popup. The problem is quite complicated since it requires good understanding of how each variable is affected and of what is th... read more ››

SEO Pagination Guide: Best Practices and Advanced Methods – part 2

As we discussed on the previous part of this guide, pagination has both pros and cons and sometimes it can’t be avoided. Your SEO campaign can be severely affected by pagination: Segmenting pages into several parts seriously reduces their strength, it lowers the chance of achieving high rankings and it leads to duplic... read more ››

SEO Pagination Guide: The pros and cons of Content Pagination – part 1

Pagination is the practice of dividing a piece of content into different pages and it heavily affects User experience, Web Development and SEO. It is a commonly used navigation technique with both pros and cons. This article is the 1st part of the SEO Pagination Guide and we will discuss the most common types of Pagination... read more ››

Geotargeting websites with Country Code TLDs

As most of you know, Google allows you to set the geographic target of domains with generic TLDs (.com, .net, .org etc) via Google Webmaster Tools console. Webmasters that own such domains are able to use the geotargeting feature in order to indicate that particular segments of their websites target in different countries.... read more ››

SEO Tutorial: How to change your website’s host without affecting your Rankings

Changing web hosting company is something that most webmasters are likely to consider at some point in time. Nevertheless as we discussed in a previous article, the web hosting and the physical location of the server can affect the SEO rankings of a website. As a result, even though transferring to a new web host is not ne... read more ››

SEO Guide: How to change your Domain name without losing your rankings

Changing the domain name of your website can have a serious impact on SEO and organic traffic and generally it is not advised from SEO perspective. This is because each domain name is linked with several metrics (trust, authority, etc), characteristics (domain age, GEO location signals, etc) and above all the hyperlinks. I... read more ››

5 reasons why Google encrypts the Keyword Data & the effects on Online Marketing

On Tuesday 18th of October, Google announced that within the next weeks, all the logged-in users that use Google search will automatically be redirected on the SSL version of the website. As they mention on their article “Making Search more secure” this new feature targets on protecting the privacy of the users and on ... read more ››

60 SEO tips & Online Marketing techniques for ecommerce Websites

Improving the Online Marketing presence of an Ecommerce website is usually a very challenging task. This is because the Online Marketers & SEO Professionals have to optimize the website in order to achieve better rankings on Search Engines, they must improve the user experience, they have to use all the available chann... read more ››

SEO Guide: Help! My website has been banned by Google! Now what?

Google does a pretty good job in detecting websites which use black hat SEO techniques that violate its Webmaster Guidelines and it often takes steps and bans them. Those penalties can either be algorithmic or manual and they can heavily affect both the rankings and the organic traffic of those websites. Given that you hav... read more ››

Google’s AJAX crawling scheme and its effects on SEO

Almost 2 years ago, Google has proposed a new way of making the AJAX applications & websites crawlable. As most of you know, search engines are very good in indexing and analyzing HTML documents but they are not particularly good in understanding JavaScript and thus crawling AJAX content. Even though 2 years have passe... read more ››

SEO for Bing: 15 tips to boost your rankings on SERPs

Few weeks ago ComScore released some figures which suggest that the Bing & Yahoo alliance has increased its marketshare to 30.5% in the US which is almost half of the marketshare of Google. Moreover Bing has signed a deal with Baidu, a very popular Chinese Search Engine, to power its SERPs for English queries. This mak... read more ››

Google Webmaster Videos: Do multiple links from one page to another page count?

Few weeks ago Google announced the new series of Google Webmaster Help Videos and requested from SEOs and Webmasters to post their questions. One of the questions that our team posted was the following: “If we add more than one links from page A to page B, do we pass more PageRank juice and additional anchor text info? ... read more ››

The new SEO API 1.10v is released: Upgrade your implementation in 5 minutes

Yesterday, 7th of September, our team has released the brand new version of the WSA API. The 1.10 version focuses on removing all the Yahoo! Search features that were deprecated by Yahoo Inc. Moreover it targets on increasing the speed & the accuracy of the tools and on adding new features on the existing toolbox. In t... read more ››

5 less known but important Ranking Factors that affect Search Engine Results

Usually in the world of SEO, the links and the content are considered to be the two most important parts of the strategy that one should optimize in order to achieve high rankings. Despite the fact that Google and the other major search engines use a large number of signals to ensure the quality and diversity of the result... read more ››

7 deadly mistakes to avoid in Google Webmaster Tools Console

The Google Webmaster Tools is a free service that allows webmasters to submit their websites & sitemaps to Google, affect their indexing process, configure how the search engine bots crawl their sites, get a list of all the errors that were detected on their pages and get valuable information, reports and statistics ab... read more ››

Social Media Marketing: How to choose the right online channels

One of the most common mistakes that companies make while designing their Social Media Marketing campaigns is that they fail to choose carefully the online channels that suit best their businesses. As a result they end up investing time, money and effort on networks that can’t help them promote their business and this ma... read more ››
New Google Toolbar PageRank Update – June 2011

New Google Toolbar PageRank Update – June 2011

Yesterday, the 27th of June, Google has updated the PageRank Toolbar values. This happens almost 5 months after the previous update which took place on January 20th. It seems that even after the Panda 2.2 Update, Google is not willing to give up on PageRank, despite the predictions of many SEOs. In order to find out how y... read more ››

7 ways to maximize your CTR in Search Engine Results

It’s a common knowledge that higher rankings lead to increased probabilities of having our pages clicked by the users. Nevertheless the position of the result by itself is not the only factor that affects the Click Through Rate (CTR). Most users take into account several things before selecting the most relevant page of ... read more ››

The 10 most common Landing Page Optimization mistakes

The first thing that most people think when they want to boost their online sales is to increase their website traffic. Thus they focus on getting more links, achieving better Search Engine Rankings, investing more on advertising, sending more emails and newsletters, finding more affiliates, becoming more active on Social ... read more ››

Combine Keyword Research & Competitor Analysis to improve your SEO

Most SEO Professionals and Online Marketers would agree that the creation of high quality content & services is the basic ingredient for a successful SEO & Online Marketing campaign. Still though just by providing great content & services and by optimizing your pages for the targeted keywords, it does not autom... read more ››
The new Professional SEO Toolbox is released!

The new Professional SEO Toolbox is released!

Check out the 4 new & 8 upgraded SEO Tools and the brand new WSA directory! Almost 4 months after the previous release, our team is proud to announce the launch of the next version of Web SEO Analytics toolbox and the brand-new WSA Directory. The new Professional Toolbox The next Generation of the Toolbox that now inc... read more ››
New SEO Tools & Services available on 30th of May

New SEO Tools & Services available on 30th of May

For the last couple of years, Web SEO Analytics team has been working hard to provide high quality SEO Tools and Services that cover the needs of the Online Marketers, SEO Professionals and Webmasters. During this time, with your valuable support, we have managed to create a website that receives thousands of visitors ever... read more ››

10 must-have WordPress Plugins for your Blog

Wordpress is currently the most popular weblog software in the world since millions of bloggers use it to power up either their blogs or their dynamic websites. One of the reasons why this platform became so successful is because blog owners are able to find a large variety of plugins to extend the functionalities of the c... read more ››

The top 20 SEO myths you should be aware of

In the SEO business nothing can taken for granted. Every year new techniques and methods are introduced, new tools become available and several algorithmic updates take place. As a result, the circumstances of this uncertain and fast changing environment give birth to several myths and misconceptions. From time to time few... read more ››

Let’s talk about Backlinks: Interview with Dixon Jones

Today we have an interview with Dixon Jones, Marketing Director of MajesticSEO. In this interesting interview we discuss about the new backlink analysis features of Majestic, the importance of backlinks in SEO and the future of Search Engine Marketing. This is an interview with Dixon Jones. Dixon is the Marketing Directo... read more ››

Google +1 vs Facebook Like: the similarities and the differences

As we discussed on the previous blog post “The new Google +1 button and the Effects on SEO”, the Google +1 button has a lot of similarities with Facebook like. Indeed the idea behind the +1 button is not new to the average user since the bookmark buttons have flooded the web for quite many years. Nevertheless Google ha... read more ››

The new Google +1 button and the Effects on SEO

Google has recently announced the release of a new social button called “+1” (plus one). Similarly to Facebook like button, the new +1 button will allow users to bookmark and share the cool websites, pages, advertisements and search results that they find on the web. The +1 button will start appearing next to the sear... read more ››

SEO Checklist: 60 essential checks before launching a website

Launching a brand new website or publishing a new site version is typically a straight forward process given that it is well planned and well organized. Failing to take into account all the known ranking factors or failing to build an SEO-friendly website can lead to low rankings in Search Results. As a result before publi... read more ››

Interview with Chris Burns, cofounder of SERPd

Today we have an interview with Chris Burns, co-founder of SERPd. In this interesting interview we will start with questions concerning the new fast growing SEO/Online Marketing community that was launched few months ago and then we will continue with hot questions concerning the recent changes and the future of Search Engi... read more ››