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Top 10 Lessons from 2010:What we’ve learned about SEO in the past 12 months.
Rand Fishkin, CEO & Co-founder, SEOmoz
Dcemeber 2010
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#1: Social Sharing Influences Search
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searchengineland.com/what-social-signals-do-google-bing-really-count-55389
Danny Sullivan: If an article is retweeted or referenced much in Twitter, do you count that as a signal outside of finding any non-nofollowed links that may naturally result from it?
Google: Yes, we do use it as a signal. It is used as a signal in our organic and news rankings. We also use it to enhance our news universal by marking how many people shared an article
Direct from the Source:
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www.seomoz.org/blog/google-bing-confirm-twitter-facebook-influence-seo
What Might Be in a Tweet Algo?
• Number of Unique Tweeting Sources (Diversity)
• “Author Authority” of the Tweeting Sources
• Time of Tweet (QDF)
• Connection Between Tweeter and Source Domain
• Quantity + Quality of Retweets
• Quantity of Clicks
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#2: Data Suggests Some Other
Influences on Rankings, Too
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Social Sources, Mentions + More
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#3: Google’s Betting Heavily on Local, but
Rankings are Less of a Mystery
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Increased Prominence of “Places”
searchengineland.com/google-local-business-center-becomes-google-places-40307
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Algo Heavy on Listing Quantity + Consistency
www.seomoz.org/blog/google-places-seo-lessons-learned-from-rank-correlation-data
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#4: 2010 Still Wasn’t the “Year of Mobile” +
Mobile SEO is Becoming Less “Unique”
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Mobile SEO Very Similar to Web SEO
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#5: Link Spam Still Works
(But for How Long?)
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How Can We Stop Buying Links When It Works?!
searchengineland.com/key-takeaways-from-googles-matt-cutts-talk-at-pubcon-55457
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#6: Topic Modeling Likely Has a
Substantive Impact on Rankings
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Simplistic LDA Models Offer Higher Ranking
Correlation than Any Other On-Page Metric
www.seomoz.org/blog/content-optimization-revisiting-topic-modeling-lda-our-labs-tool
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#7: No One’s Taking Market Share
from Google (Yet)
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Search Volume Growth Over Time
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#8: Google + Bing Have Similar
Ranking Influences
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Google vs. Bing Ranking Correlations
www.seomoz.org/blog/google-vs-bing-correlation-analysis-of-ranking-elements
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#9: Video, News, Blogs, Images, Social
are All Providing Opportunity(and adding complexity)
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So Much Opportunity!
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#10: Organic Marketing is All
Connected
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www.seomoz.org/dp/pro-webinar-dec-2010-organic-marketing
SEO in 2006:
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SEO in 2011:
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Q+A
Rand Fishkin, CEO & Co-Founder, SEOmoz
• Twitter: @randfish
• Blog: www.seomoz.org/blog
• Email: [email protected]