Welcome Software

MAY 29, 2025

It means you’ve survived approximately 47 Google algorithm updates, 12 existential crises about “the death of SEO,” and at least three moments where you seriously considered pivoting to llama farming. But here’s the twist: 2025 isn’t the year SEO dies. Technical SEO : Core Web Vitals 2.0

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Search Engine Land

JULY 12, 2024

I simply followed all the rules of white-hat SEO. Amazon’s Alexa Answers site saw an 813% increase in SEO traffic before someone at Amazon decided to put a robots.txt exclusion, likely to keep their public content from being scraped to train other LLMs like Google Gemini (good luck with that, Amazon). How did I do it?

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Animalz blog

MAY 29, 2025

Somewhere between the 2012 keyword-stuffing craze and the rise of SEO-as-a-growth-channel, we allowed a change to take hold. Oppedahl, we can even call it a late-onset quarter-life crisis. Before AI became the protagonist, we were already quietly grappling with something.

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Animalz blog

JULY 15, 2025

Stephanie Losee [00:03:37]: So this is 2012. There was a whole team devoted to SEO specifically for content pages. Ty Magnin [00:03:30]: Incredible. And can you take us back, like, roughly what year is it, Adele, that you were the one of the first managing editors ever? I was a tech journalist at Fortune magazine.

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SocialPilot

APRIL 23, 2025

And yes, Dont forget to optimize your video title and description with keywords to spruce up your YouTube SEO. It will create SEO-friendly descriptions and suggest relevant tags to make sure your video gets discovered. Increased watch time was considered essential and a ranking factor back in 2012.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Read more about social SEO and YouTube SEO to keep your knowledge brewing. Pro tip: Embedding a YouTube video in your blog or website is great for both your blogs Google SEO as well as your videos view counts on YouTube. Write clickable titles (that aren’t clickbaity) Your title is your first impression.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 26, 2024

Sorry kids, but SEO isn’t what it used to be. I’m not here to declare the practice of “SEO” dead – it is not by any means. SEOs have always been knowingly or unknowingly at the forefront of interacting with artificial intelligence on behalf of their websites, digital assets and identities.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 17, 2024

Crisis communication and SEO Many industry observers think Google’s Panda update in February 2011 and Penguin update in April 2012 changed how online reputation management works, emphasizing high-quality content over spammy SEO techniques. Business email address Subscribe Processing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2011

by Maria Pergolino Search engine optimization (SEO) is a main focus now of many advertising and marketing campaigns for businesses. Even so, various companies treat their SEO efforts very differently when it comes to how much they spend on it. Others are stingy with how much money they are willing to spend on SEO.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 24, 2012

It was an SEO conference called ScarySEO, and had all the attributes I thought were important from a large show, but with the intimacy only a small event can provide. These events were reborn in 2010 as Blueglass LA, and this week I am attending the encore, Blueglass LA 2012. Attendee Only Content - Not Shared Via Social.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

For B2B marketers, social media marketing ranks seventh in terms of budget importance trailing old-fashioned postal direct mail according to 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report conducted by Marketing Sherpa and sponsored by Marketo. 1. Use social media to support your search optimization efforts (SEO). 1. Weak U.S.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 22, 2012

Next week brings Memorial Day and the unofficial start of the 2012 summer season here in the United States. And welcome to the Summer of 2012! Optimize : How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing - by Lee Odden (@ LeeOdden ). This is one of the most recent books on the list.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 21, 2015

Author: Joe Cox The term ‘negative SEO’ has been thrown around with increasing frequency over the last few months. Negative SEO negatively impacts rankings by acquiring bad links, blatantly purchasing links, or creating an otherwise unnatural and manipulated looking link profile. Negative SEO Is Harder Than You Think.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The early days of SEO were like the Wild, Wild West. Blackhat SEO experts were doing everything imaginable to rank their sites on Google. These days, Google’s SERP Algorithm has really cracked down on content quality – and those older SEO hacks have long crumbled to dust. Admittedly, for a time, it totally worked.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Since the Google Penguin and Panda updates, a lot of SEOs finally have realized that ranking a website in the long term is not just about building a large number of links. However, one type of SEO that still is underutilized is VSEO: video search engine optimization. Usually, they opt for creating various other types of content (e.g.,

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Internet Marketing Ninjas

APRIL 22, 2022

What’s the role of your chosen domain name on your future SEO strategy and visibility? What’s the correlation between SEO and domain names? Back in the early days of SEO keywords of domain names played a huge role in rankings. Back in the early days of SEO keywords of domain names played a huge role in rankings.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 28, 2020

Today, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of SEO agencies out there. Thus, your question shouldn’t be, how do I find the right SEO agency, but how do I choose an SEO agency that’s right for me? First things first, why do you need an SEO agency? In SEO, where you’re going requires a different airplane (or agency).

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Rock Content

JULY 13, 2020

Therefore, it is always important to be updated on the SEO trends of the moment. Mastering SEO parameters and current trends are essential to succeed with content strategies and positioning pages on Google. Because of this, we will bring in this post the top 10 SEO trends for 2020. Mobile SEO. We’re not repetitive.

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Hubspot Marketing

JUNE 18, 2019

So, you've read dozens — if not hundreds — of SEO articles online. You've digested countless tips and tricks for improving your website's SEO. You've even (over)paid that self-proclaimed "expert" to help you develop an SEO strategy that aligns with your business goals. Why is on-page SEO important? HTML elements.

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Neil Patel

MAY 19, 2020

As you can see from the screenshot above, I’ve driven 30 million visitors to my website from SEO. I know that sounds contradictory because if you are an SEO, why wouldn’t you obsess about traffic, right? For example, during one quarter in 2017, my SEO traffic went up 39.52%, but my revenue from SEO went up only 4.29%.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 16, 2021

Truth be told, most SEOs, content marketers, web developers, and marketers know a little bit about H1s. The chart tells it all: I don’t want to sound like a snake-oil salesman with a bunch of anecdotes, so let me give you the cold, hard facts about h1s and SEO. That’s the direction that SEO has taken in recent years. It matters.

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Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 20, 2018

Below, we'll dive into your domain structure options, explain how Google interprets these structures, and cover some original research and tips on making the best use of international SEO. Using Them in Your International SEO Strategy. But language is one of your best multilingual SEO maneuvers. Types of Domain Structure.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 23, 2011

by Carol Fox MarketingSherpa just released its eighth annual 2012 Search Marketing Benchmark Report – SEO Edition. The 202-page report, which is organized by company size, primary market, industry sector, social media use and SEO maturity, examines the SEO habits and effectiveness of some 1,530 B2B and B2C marketers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2011

5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012 This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Here are my predictions for 2012. This trend highlights the marketers’ need to go beyond SEO and PPC and move deeper into social networks, mobile marketing and app-based local marketplaces. But, welcome to the odd world of small business.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 8, 2021

Likes, shares, and comments can have a massive impact on SEO. According to cognitive SEO , the higher the average number of shares, comments, and likes a brand has, the higher their website rank actually is. Twitter for SEO Tip #1: Promote, Promote, Promote. Twitter for SEO Tip #2: Use Targeted Keywords. Exposure is key.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Your SEO company could be hurting your business. I know a lot of small businesses who have placed their trust in an SEO agency, only to have their sites all but destroyed through black hat techniques. I wrote this article to help you figure out if your SEO agency is doing good or doing harm. So you hire an SEO agency.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 6, 2023

The announcement’s 11th anniversary is only a month away, yet many still struggle to understand what “things, not strings” really means for SEO. In May 2012, one could argue that entity SEO was born. So if entities have been important for Google for over a decade, why are SEOs still confused about entities?

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 7, 2023

In this article, we’ll explain everything you need to know about semantic search and show how it can benefit your SEO strategy. The Knowledge Graph has been growing steadily since it was first introduced in 2012. Essentially, semantic search is important because it can help you improve your SEO. Semantic Search Explained.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

By now, you’ve probably already read “Bitter, cynical Verge article blames SEOs for ruining the internet” on Search Engine Land. The Verge article in question provides a critical mention of notable figures in the SEO industry. The Verge article has rightly mentioned that “SEO is now baked into everything.”

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2012

One of the the areas where content marketing is making it’s biggest impact is in SEO. We wanted to ask some leading experts in both the UK and US for their thoughts on how the evolution of content marketing is affecting the type of SEO strategies they implement for clients. Our Experts. Our Experts. The Questions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

Creating a Winning SEO Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He is an SEO expert and the founder of Backlinko. Dean started five internet businesses early in his career, but he didn’t experience success until 2012. How do you incorporate user intent into your SEO strategy?

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Orbit Media Studios

MARCH 8, 2022

But no, the biggest SEO trends don’t affect your rankings. Here is a simple, visual analysis of this SEO trend. Ranking algorithm updates are real, but they aren’t the big change to search and SEO. Featured snippets and knowledge panels, once huge topics in the SEO community, are on the decline. There’s a big difference.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Microsoft adCenter Increases Ad Description, Adds Budget Widget & More Mobile Targeting Options 2012: Microsoft’s January 2012 adCenter release update. Does CityGrid From Citysearch “Answer” The Local SEO Problem? by Eric Enge 2012: How Much Does SEO Cost? Bing: “We Do Not Copy Results.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 1, 2023

In 2012, Google – a search engine known for fighting against paid links and “thin” content – seemed to be behind a campaign that generated both on behalf of its Chrome browser. Google’s Mueller spent New Year’s helping SEOs tackle hacked content, slow website issues. The Hottest Reads In Search & Social In 2012.

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Orbit Media Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

It is affected by PR and off-site SEO. It is affected by copywriting and on-page SEO. Setting those aside, let’s explore user signals for SEO. This is known as pogo-sticking and many SEOs believe it’s bad for your rankings. A boring opening is bad for engagement, and low engagement is bad for SEO.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2012, when you visited Google, you saw this: That’s how Google voiced its opposition to two bills being discussed in Congress – the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA ). What about the SEO impact? Google had previously shared some SEO blackout advice. Yoast SEO launches on Shopify.

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Search Engine Journal

JUNE 16, 2022

Google introduced the Penguin algorithm in 2012. What did it change and how does it impact the way we do SEO today? The post A Complete Guide To the Google Penguin Algorithm Update appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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