Thoughts on SEO, social media, and other geeky things.
Just who do I think I am? http://zimorama.com/
On Wednesday I suggested a couple sites that you might use to identify if Penguin 2.0 was released. Little did I know that, in a few brief hours, Matt Cutts would announce it was live.
How did each of these tools fare? Both MozCast and Serpmetrics Flux missed the prediction (or jumped the gun a little bit) by suggesting that the SERPs were more volatile a few days before Penguin was released. Only SERP’s Volatility index saw Penguin roll-out.
Now this might be all based upon data sets and when data is drawn, but it seems to me that SERPs.com won this round.
This is very interesting… Unleash the Penguin conspiracy theories!
Here are a couple of resources that can help you determine if traffic changes to your site (whether up or down) are the result of Penguin 2.0 or good (or bad) SEO to your site:
Have a great weekend (and try not to think about this)!
These are my SEOresolutions this year.
Hooray! It’s the most wonderful time of the year #marchmadness. I think I might be using this a lot over the next couple days!
Really? This guy is dying!
If I had any respect for display advertising left, it’s gone now!
When I retire I want to work on a PhD in history and teach Western Civilization as a TA. Meanwhile I am starting a list of philosophers every SEO should know. That list starts with:
Checklist: Another easy website optimisation is to make sure page titles are unique across your entire website. Titles are critical to giving users a quick insight into the content of a result and why it’s relevant to their query. It’s often the primary piece of information used to decide which result to click on, so it’s important to use high-quality unique titles on your web pages.
