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Google Shows New Adwords Ad Format on Google+

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 18:27:00 +0000

As we all know, Google experimenting lots of things without announcing it. one of them is Google adwords new ad format on Google+. In a recent post by Barry Schwartz, CEO of seroundtable said:

We've been covering Google experimenting with a new AdWords ad format, where the ad is labeled in a yellow ad banner for a while now. More and more people and searchers are seeing it every day but Google has yet to announce the change.

It seems Google may have slipped up by showing in a Google+ screen shot the new ad label without knowing. They showed how you can use the knowledge graph to follow brands on Google+, but in the screen show, there was an AdWords ad that had the yellow label.

Here is a current adword Ad format below:

Here is new adword ad format which is going to be live soon all over :

My question is, why hasn’t Google announced it yet and what is taking them so long when it comes to switching over to it.

This has to be going live to all very soon but when? Comment your answers below if you have something to say about this.

Image Credit: intelligentlinks.org

Google analytic most wanted keywords-"" Not provided" and "Not set"

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:52:00 +0000

In this post i am going to explain you about the the terms of Google analytics which some peoples don't know as they are seeing these nightmare keywords in their daily status of Google analytics account of their websites or blogs

My first question is how many of know about "what is (not provided)" and (not set) appears in keywords column of their website or blog Google analytics account.

Focused Area:

The main reason why (not set) to appear as a dimension value is specific to each report

You might see (not set) as the value for dimensions within each of these dimension groups:

Advertising: Campaign, Ad Group, Keyword, Match Type, etc.

Content: Landing Page

Visitors: Flash Version, Screen Colors, Language, etc.

1) In-terms of Google Ad words:

There is a redirect in the URL

The gclid parameter is altered or dropped from the ad (See: CPC Data Not Collected)

2) The Traffic Sources reports

Search > Organic

If (not set) is appearing in your Organic search reports, it could be that:

An incorrectly configured filter is modifying campaign variables or referral patterns.

urchin.js is being used on the landing page. This tracking code is no longer supported and so its search-engine list is out of date. Many new search-engine URL formats are not recognized (e.g., bing.com/?q=KEYWORD). Visits originating from these sources will be marked bing/(organic) but since no search term could be recognized, keyword will be (not set).

The Content reports

Site Content > Landing Pages

If you see landing page = (not set), this is generally due to a visit with no_trackPageview hit included.

This can happen if you have a visit with another type of interaction hit, such as_trackEvent, _trackSocial, or _trackTrans (Ecommerce), but no_trackPageview hit.

To investigate, create an advanced filter that includes pageviews matching exactly 0. You can then apply this to the Content > Event reports, Traffic Sources > Social > Social Plugins report, or Conversions > Ecommerce reports. This will help you identify which type of hit is causing the issue.

Often, the cause is:

A view filter removing specific pageviews

The omission of the _trackPageview code call on the website

The Audience reports

Technology > Browser & OS > Screen Resolution

It is quite common that the screen resolution that has the highest Ecommerce conversion rate is (not set). Additionally, a high incidence of (not set) Ecommerce rates can occur for these dimensions:

Flash Version (occurs if Flash is disabled in browser settings)

Screen Colors

Language (in demographics report)

Generally, these traffic segments are small, and so are not statistically significant.

Special reports

Custom reports

When you select a traffic-source related dimension (such as Campaign) in a Custom Report, the dimension is applied to all visits in the account, not just Paid Search traffic. Therefore, visits that do not have any campaign information associated (e.g., direct, referral traffic) will be reported under (not set). You will see something similar if you select the Campaigns report under Traffic Sources > Sources rather than theCampaigns report under Advertising > AdWords.

Instead of creating a Custom Report, the best way to get this information would be to use an advanced segment in the specific report.

Visitors Flow

Similar to the custom reports, when you select a dimension such as Campaign in the Visits Flow reports, you may see (not set) in the Funnel path because all visits from direct and referral traffic would not have campaign information. If you do the math, you'll see that (all other campaigns sources) + (not set) = total visits.

Another new 'Embed Post' feature announced by Facebook in 2013 copied from Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 07:25:00 +0000

Hello Followers,

Good afternoon,

when i have started my laptop today, i have read the news about Facebook rolled out new Feature today named "Embed post" Feature like twitter on Facebook as you are embedding your tweets to your website from your Twitter acoount

However, all Facebook posts cannot be embedded, only those posts whose privacy settings are set to public can be embedded.

Facebook Founder- CEO- Mark Zuckerberg

According to the announcement, the feature is currently being tested with CNN, Huffington Post, Bleacher Report, PEOPLE and Mashable pages. However, Facebook promised broader availability soon.

Facebook Laptop Sticker

An embedded post will let readers like or share the update, and like or follow the author of the content.

A company spokesperson said the feature would roll out more broadly to users "soon."

"Today, we are beginning to roll out Embedded Posts to make it possible for people to bring the most compelling, timely public posts from Facebook to the rest of the Web," Facebook software engineer Dave Capra said in a statement. "Every day, public figures, journalists, and millions of regular people share their thoughts on what's happening around the world on Facebook publicly."

Example of Embedded Post on Facebook

The embedded posts feature is ultimately meant to make Facebook a relevant part of pop culture and news stories, an area where Twitter has long reigned supreme

Good News for SEO's : Using Google’s New Keyword Planner

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:06:00 +0000

Keywords are the foundation of search engine optimization. They’re what searchers type into Google’s search box, and what marketers incorporate into their web pages to attract searchers to their sites. Google recently launched a new tool that changes the way we research keywords:AdWords Keyword Planner.

Intended for use by paid search marketers, the Keyword Planner replaces the AdWords Keyword Tool we’ve often recommended using and merges it with the AdWords Traffic Estimator. In essence, the Keyword Planner is designed to simplify keyword research and campaign planning for paid search marketers.

New Features of the Keyword Planner

Despite its AdWords focus, the Keyword Planner can still be used by SEO professionals. The core of the toolset revolves around keyword volume, a measure central to both paid and organic search.

For those familiar with the Keyword Tool, the new interface will take some getting used to. Where the Keyword Tool offered a single interface to accept keywords and return keyword data, the Keyword Planner gives marketers three choices, as follows.

Search for keyword and ad group ideas. This option takes by the hand those who don’t know where to start. Enter a keyword or phrase, the URL of a landing page and/or an AdWords category, and the Keyword Planner will return some potentially relevant keywords. Each keyword is accompanied by the average number of times per month for which that exact phrase was searched, the phrase’s competitive score and its average cost per click (CPC). This is the only option available to discover new keywords within AdWords. The other two options report data only for the specific keywords entered without suggesting additional keyword ideas.

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Search for keyword and ad group ideas in the Keyword Planner.

Enter or upload keywords to get estimates. When you know exactly which keywords you’re targeting, this option allows users to paste in or upload a list of keyword phrases. The tool will return the average monthly searches, competitive score, and average CPC for each phrase without identifying additional keyword phrases. Be sure to click “Get search volume” rather than “Get estimates,” or you’ll find yourself in the AdWords interface building ad groups and campaigns instead of downloading data to analyze for SEO.

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Enter or upload keywords to get estimates in the Keyword Planner.

Multiply keyword lists to get estimates. A nice time-saver, this option takes lists of words and combines them in every conceivable way to generate a list of possible keywords. For example, multiplying a list containing “black bean” and “black beans” with a list containing “recipe” and “burger” would result in the following four combined keywords: “black bean recipe,” “black bean burger,” “black beans recipe,” and “black beans burger.” The resulting report also contains the average monthly searches, competitive score, and average CPC for each phrase without identifying additional keyword phrases.

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Multiply keyword lists to get estimates in the Keyword Planner.

How It Works for SEO

Essentially, the first option to “search for keyword and ad group ideas” is the closest in functionality to the old Keyword Tool. SEO professionals will use this portion of the Planner most frequently, working with the “Keyword Ideas” tab.

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Keyword ideas report in the Keyword Planner.

Play with the interface to determine how to get the most keyword ideas from the tool. I’ve found that entering a few very closely related keyword phrases in the “your product or service” field and leaving the other two fields blank returns the most keyword ideas. To hone in on keywords related to your industry, try adding a product category or using the negative keywords targeting filter to specify keywords you don’t want to include.

It’s not useful to specify a landing page, however, when the goal is to discover new keywords. Adding a landing page tells the tool to extract keyword phrases from content you’ve already created. So basing your SEO plan on those keywords will only get you more of what you already have.

As with the old Keyword Tool, Planner lets you download the monthly search volumes for the last 12 months in addition to the average monthly searches. In the download dialog box, just check the box for “Segment statistics by month.”

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Extracting monthly data from the Keyword Planner.

Keyword Planner vs. Keyword Tool

The “search for keyword and ad group ideas” portion of the Keyword Planner offers recipes more efficiently than the old Keyword Tool. For instance, the keyword and ad group ideas report can be modified quickly via an interface that doesn’t require the entire page to load. The content refreshes quickly to include or exclude certain words, apply keyword filters, adjust targeting, modify the search and more.

SEO professionals will also be glad to see that exact match is the default measure for average searches per month. Exact match refers to searchers using an exact keyword phrase without being split by other intervening words. For example, only “bean recipes” is an exact match for the keyword phrase “bean recipes.” Phrase match and broad match would match keywords that searchers use more loosely, such as phrase matching a search for “bean and ham recipes” with the keyword “bean recipes.”

The old Keyword Tool defaulted to broad match for search volumes, a number that results in dramatically skewed keyword data for organic search. One missed check box in the old tool could render hours of keyword research useless if was conducted in the wrong match type.

Another good feature the new Keyword Planner brings to the table for local search is targeting by city. For ecommerce sites with brick and mortar stores in specific cities or regions within a country, this new feature is revolutionary. The old Keyword Tool displayed search volumes by country only.

Unfortunately, using the “search for keyword and ad group ideas” portion of the Keyword Planner makes keyword discovery an even more time-consuming process than it already is by adding extra steps. Before you can even begin to research keywords, you have to choose which of the three features you’d like to work with. In addition, after clicking the “Download” button, a second confirmation dialog box must be clicked through before the file will be downloaded to your hard drive.

Really, though, it doesn’t matter which we prefer, the old Keyword Tool or the new Keyword Planner. The Planner was launched in mid-May, and the AdWords Keyword Tool should be discontinued sometime this month. Since the Keyword Planner is here to stay, get used to the interface before the Keyword Tool disappears and you’re left scrambling for data.

Big News for Webmasters(SEO) : ALTAVISTA search engine closed announced by YAHOO

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 06:09:00 +0000

Once up on a time, there was a popular search engine called AltaVista. It lives no more.
On Monday, its owner Yahoo Inc. sent AltaVista.com to the Internet graveyard to rest alongside order-almost-anything venture Kozmo.com and the butler from Ask Jeeves. Palo Alto,

We mourned the closing of AltaVista when it was announced at the end of last month. But today’s the day it actually closed. No more AltaVista. Gone. Perhaps no one will suffer as much as the inhabitants of Pawnee, Indiana.

Calif.-based AltaVista was introduced in 1995, three years before Google Inc. was founded. Eclipsed by Google in the early 2000s, AltaVista's star had already faded by the time Yahoo acquired it as part of its $1.7 billion purchase of Overture Services Inc. in July 2003. Overture had bought AltaVista earlier that year from Massachusetts-based CMGI Inc.

Yahoo announced AltaVista's fate on its Tumblr page late last month. Search industry expert Danny Sullivan likened AltaVista to a bright child neglected by its parents.

"You were loved. You really were," Sullivan wrote in a blog post eulogizing the site. "People did not want to leave you. But despite adding new features, some of which Google copied, you couldn't keep up with the pace and innovation of that company, which decided against becoming a portal like your corporate masters ordered for you."

Now Generate more revenue from Google Product listing ads feature 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:36:00 +0000

Online search giant Google has launched a new ad format, called Product Listing Ads, in India to provide users information images, price and brands of products that will help people shop better both online and offline.

Everyday, millions of shoppers use Google search to research and discover products to purchase online and offline, and this new format connects users to product-information looks, price and brands, Google India said in a statement.

Product Listing Ads will appear on shopping-related queries on Google.co.in. This feature will initially be placed on the right-hand side of the search results page above text ads, and it will be labeled as 'sponsored', it added.

This ad format will help users easily find and compare relevant products and their prices to fine-tune what they are looking for, the statement said.

Product Listing Ads are a great opportunity for merchants to present their business and promote their products to interested shoppers as well, it added.

What and how to do on- page optimization in 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:14:00 +0000

Hey guys, i came with something new and inovative steps for the peoples who want to start or learn seo . So here are some basic but neccesory steps in on-page optimization to recover your site with lots of Google panda and penguine updates. So here i come with something new and intersting facts about on- page optimization . Please have a look below for the intersting facts:

1) keyword research : it is very important factor for your website or blog optimization , because without knowing much about your keyword it ia very defficult for you get very good optimized in GOOGLE SERP. For this you just have to research your keywords by using best tool in the word for the named " Google adwords" keyword research tool .
This tool helps you a lot for finding right keywords about your blog or for your website. So when you are doing on page optimization for your website just keep in mind this awsome tool.

2) Competitor Analysis: So here is another fact for the onpage optimization of website, which is competitor analysis . You should also have to just focus on this parameter too.

3) 404 error page redirection : redirect your 404 page so that if someone typed wrong url then redirect the user to the desired page of your website by using 301 redirection .

Thanks for reading this post, if you like this then please do comment below for your feedback.

Google Penguine Update 2.0 on 22 May,2013

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Thu, 23 May 2013 05:49:00 +0000

We started rolling out the next generation of the Penguin webspam algorithm this afternoon (May 22, 2013), and the rollout is now complete. About 2.3% of English-US queries are affected to the degree that a regular user might notice. The change has also finished rolling out for other languages world-wide.

Google Penguine 2.0 Update

The scope of Penguin varies by language, e.g. languages with more webspam will see more impact.This is the fourth Penguin-related launch Google has done, but because this is an updated algorithm (not just a data refresh), we’ve been referring to this change as Penguin 2.0 internally.

Gmail Storage Update : 15 GB now shared between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Wed, 15 May 2013 05:30:00 +0000

Life gets a bit easier when your Google products work well together—whether that’s inserting a Drive file into an email or sharing a photo from Drive on Google+. As this experience becomes more seamless, separate storage doesn’t make as much sense anymore. So instead of having 10 GB for Gmail and another 5 GB for Drive and Google+ Photos, you’ll now get 15 GB of unified storage for free to use as you like between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos.

With this new combined storage space, you won’t have to worry about how much you’re storing and where. For example, maybe you’re a heavy Gmail user but light on photos, or perhaps you were bumping up against your Drive storage limit but were only using 2 GB in Gmail. Now it doesn’t matter, because you can use your storage the way you want.

We’ll also be making updates to the Google Drive storage page, so you can better understand how you’re using storage space. Simply hover over the pie chart to see a breakdown of your storage use across Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos. And if you need more storage, this is your place to upgrade, with plans starting at $4.99/month for 100 GB.

Pro tip: This change means you’re no longer limited to a 25 GB upgrade in Gmail—any additional storage you purchase now applies there, too.

These changes to Google Drive storage will roll out over the next couple of weeks. Google Apps users will also be getting shared storage, so visit the enterprise blog to learn more.

How to approve your Google Adsense account

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Sat, 11 May 2013 11:33:00 +0000

The reason you clicked on this post is very simple that you are not getting approved by Google Adsense.

You know,Some years back Google is always waiting for new publishers to sign up in Google Adsense. And it is very easy to approved from Google Adsense.

But things are now changed,Thousands of request are now send everyday to Google Adsense for approval.And only some publishers are get approved from Google Adsense.

But question always comes in my mind is that,Why these publishers are not Approved? And what to do to get approved from Google Adsense easily.?And i always failed to answer these questions.

So on these days i make an experiment by a deep talk with some bloggers who are not getting Google Adsense account.And i see their blogs and try go get and solve the the problems.

Finally i got some points and tell those bloggers to follow and some of them get approved from Adsense.I am very happy from this and plan to share those points with you.So lets start.

Killer Tips For Google Adsense Approval:-

1)Minimum Post Required: According to me your blog contains minimum of 45+ quality post.But all of them are of good quality.

Remember:- It doesn't mean that you write all of the post in one day.Take 3-4 months to write those posts.

2)Length Of Posts: Don't write small posts(Like 100-200 words).Try to write the posts in 500-600 words.Google doesn't like small posts or the posts only includes images.

3)Write For Your Niche Only: I sure Google is very strict about this.Write only for the niche(Your blog Title) you already choose for your blog.

4)Better And Clean English: This is very important in blogging.Try to improve you writing,Grammar skills.Read your article twice when complete.

Remember:- When you send request to Google Adsense your blog will be reviewed by humans not bots and think if they catch your Grammar and Spelling mistakes.

5)No Adult/Porn Content: Don't write on Adult/Porn content.If you use these contents on your blog.You never get Approved by Google Adsense.

6)No Hacking Content: Don't try to write on hacking.Google also send me warning two times for hacking content.

7)High Quality Images: Try to make your blog post beautiful by using high quality images.And don't use porn images on your blog.

8)Avoid Copyright Content: This is a crime to copy paste content from other blogs.I sure if your blog have copy/paste content you never get approved.

9)Better Blog Design: Use simple and better design for your blog.And make better navigation so that it is easy for the user to search anything from your blog.

Make a logo for your blog.Make you design as like that it is looking like professional website.

10)Decent Amount Of Traffic: You know Google track your blog traffic when you send request for Google Adsense.So don't apply for Google Adsense until you have 500-700 unique visitors.

11)Better Page Rank: Try to make your blog page rank better to make better impression to Google Adsense.If your blog contain better content,Then it is sure that you have better page rank.

12)Better Alexa Rank: Don't send request to Google Adsense until you have 450K alexa rank.

Tip:- Update everyday your blog,sure after some time you get good result in your alexa ranking.

13)Publisher Information: Try to send request through your official domain email address like example@yourwebsite.com.

New Search Engine by Google : Google Nose

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:41:00 +0000

Google has gone all out with a number of April Fool pranks. Besides announcing that YouTube was going to shut down for a decade, the company has now launched "The new scentsation in search".

Google Nose is the hoax product launch by Google today.

The hoax product, that is still in beta, apparently lets Google users to search the 'Aromabase' of over 15 million Scentibytes and then inhale through their computer and phone screens.

With Google Nose, users can go beyond typing, talking, and touching for a new notation of sensation.

Google Nose also includes 'SMELLCD 1.8+ high-resolution compatible for precise and controlled odours'.

Also, Google Knowledge Panels can pair images, descriptions, and aromas.

SafeSearch has also been included in case a user is wary of one's query.

Google Inc, getting a headstart on the annual tradition of April Fools’ pranks, also released a YouTube clip on Sunday declaring that the world’s most popular video website will shut down at the stroke of midnight.

Google going to rivamp its search

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:49:00 +0000

Google has said that it is planning to give its users a new experience of searching the web, which would be like 'Star Trek'.

Google's Search Head Amit Singhal said at SXSW Interactive that 'the destiny of search is to become that 'Star Trek' computer and that's what the firm is building.'

Singhal shared that computers will know what people want and users won't have to type their queries into a small box on a clean white page, ABC News reports.

"You can walk up to a computer and say, hey, computer," he added.

Singhal also said that this would dependent on other technologies, including improved voice control, touch and sensory tech.

SEO extensions for Google Chrome users for websites

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:50:00 +0000

Hey Folks, I am sharing something interesting with you.that might be helpful for you and also for your websites

Here are below more useful top Google chrome SEO extensions which would helps for your work.
SEO Extensions for Chrome :

# SEO Status Pagerank/Alexa Toolbar
# Chrome SEO Plus
# Firebug
# Google URL Shorter
# Twitter Tweet Button
# Stumbleupon
# Awesome Screenshot
# Domain Details
# Ultimate Chrome Flag
# ShowIP
# Speed Tracer

Google announced new meta keyword for Publishers

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:25:00 +0000

Meta keywords are gaining again the importance for the ranking in Google SERP's that is why they are announced a new Keyword called Google news_keywords meta tags for the publishers.

Google also warns that news_keyword is not a quick path for the Google news submitted by publisher to rank stronger in Google.

Syntax for writing this meta tag for news is as follow:

Google New Meta Keyword

Easy way to drive traffic to your website

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:09:00 +0000

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 the search engine results. Failing to attract the user’s attention can lead to low CTR and low search engine traffic. In this article we focus on 7 ways that can help you maximize your CTR in Search Engine Results and improve drastically your Organic traffic.

1. Write Intriguing & Descriptive Titles

Many SEOs tend to over optimize their Page Titles in order to achieve better rankings. Unfortunately by doing so, they produce low quality titles that look spammy or irrelevant to the initial query of the user. As a result most users avoid clicking on these pages and their CTR drops. In order to improve the CTR, the title should be short (less than 64-70 chars), descriptive and at the same time it should contain a reasonable number of keywords and engage the user to click on the page. Moreover another way to improve the CTR is to incorporate the name of the site at the end of the title. This can be very helpful in cases where the brandname of the website is known and trusted by the users. Here is how Page Titles should not look like:

2. Optimize your META-description

The META-description should contain the main keywords of the page but at the same time it should briefly explain the content of the page and engage the user to read more. Moreover incorporating a call to action can significantly improve the CTR. Last but not least don’t forget that the description should contain enough information to attract the user’s attention but not answer all of his questions directly without actually visiting the website. Here is how Page descriptions should not look like:

3. Using Rich Snippets

Most search engines believe that the more information is provided in the snippets, the easier it is for the users to find the most relevant pages within the SERPs. As a result they try to present to the users additional useful information about the returned websites by using Rich Snippets. The Rich Snippets contain more data than regular snippets and they include information such as Ratings, Addresses, Dates etc. Since the Rich Snippets are bigger, they are more likely to attract user’s attention and as a result they more likely to be clicked by the users. Thus by using microdata, microformats, RDFa or the new schema.orgto mark structured content within your HTML pages, you can improve significantly your CTR and provide useful information to your users before even entering your website.

4. Using Site Links

The Sitelinks are links that are shown below some results in the SERPs and they help users navigate the websites easier. Usually the sitelinks appear in cases where the query of the user seems to be significantlyrelevant to a particular result and when the result’s website is considered a trusted source. Having sitelinks in your snippet can help you improve your CTR since they tend to attract the user’s attention and they help him/her navigate easier your website.

Even though webmasters have very little control over the sitelinks since they are calculated algorithmically, there are 2 ways that one can affect the displayed links. The first is to block the irrelevant sitelinks by accessing the Site configuration panel of the Google Webmaster Tools service and the second is to create solid Link Architecture by focusing on the most important segments of your website and by using optimized and descriptive anchor texts.

5. Having Breadcrumb Navigation

The Breadcrumb is a navigation aid that allows users keep track of their locations within websites by presenting them the full navigation path that one can follow in order to land on a particular page. Search Engines can identify breadcrumbs and present the information on your pages in the search engine results. In these cases search engines instead of showing to the user the actual URL address of the page, they present all the steps or categories between the website’s homepage and the landing page. The Breadcrumb navigation can be understood by Search Engines either algorithmically or by reading the microdata or RDFamarkup that was used by webmasters.

6. Using the Social Layers

As we discussed in the article “Google +1 vs Facebook Like: the similarities and the differences”, Google tries to give a Social flavor to the Search Engine results by using “social layers”. Thus if a user is logged in with a Google account he is able to see which pages have been +1’d or Retweeted by his/her friends. Moreover in some cases he is able to see the total number of +1s that a particular result has. As a result, making it easy and giving incentives to your visitors to share and bookmark your website will not only have an impact on your Traffic and SEO but also on your CTR.

7. Google Instant Preview

The Google Instant Preview gives the opportunity to the user to see a screenshot of the page without actually visiting the website. Unfortunately though the Google Instant Preview does not always show theflash elements of the page and as a result the screenshot of webpages that contain flash looks ugly and confusing. Even though there have been suggested several ways to resolve this problem, it is generally advised not to rely so much on Flash elements. Due to the Google Instant Preview functionality, by having a nice design you can attract user’s attention, make people click on your website and of course positively affect your CTR.

Blog Design for killer SEO

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:59:00 +0000

SEO Services

5 Social Media Tools for your blog and website

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:03:00 +0000

Social media has become an integral part of a business’ marketing strategy. Reaching out to hundreds and thousands of your audience in a matter of seconds has been made possible by the power of a tweet or wall post.

The idea of managing social media profiles of your business is to maximize interaction with potential clients and increase sales.

However, there comes a time when your social media activity can get overwhelming. Aside from keeping up with the different social media channels you have registered for, you need to deal with posting timely messages on your feed and replying to disgruntled customers to control your online brand reputation. Thus, managing all your online accounts on a regular basis takes up hours of your time at work, leaving you with little for your other tasks.

Ideally, there’s no reason you should spend more than 30 minutes replying and posting on your online profiles. To do this, you will need the help of free social media tools and services to organize your workflow. Below are five highly recommended social media services to make your online work much more efficient.

Hootsuite

One of the problems why people take so long in messaging on social media is because they have to sift through different windows and interfaces just so they can send out messages to their audience.

With Hootsuite—arguably one of the most useful social media tools out there—you can register up to five of your social media profiles so you can interact with your Twitter,Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn followers with ease.

Interface on all accounts is streamlined, so you won’t get confused with the different designs of each site. If you need to dispatch the same message on all your profiles, Hootsuite lets you do that in just one click after selecting the profiles where you intend for the message to appear.

Another advantage of using this tool is the ability to schedule your posts to appear at specific dates and times in the future. This proves very useful especially if you won’t be able to tend to your online profiles due to other commitments. Once you’ve set up the message, they will be posted on the social media sites even if you don’t log in.

InboxQ

There are Twitter users who are simply waiting to become your followers, if not clients or brand advocates. The problem is just they don’t know it yet. These people ask questions about products and services that your business offers such as “What’s the best X?” or “What Y should I buy?” InboxQ, arguably the most helpful when it comes to generating leads for your business, lets you find them.

The app can be installed on your Internet browser or Hootsuite dashboard. Once installed, enter the keywords relevant to your business and InboxQ will search for questions on Twitter. You can input as many keywords as possible, as long as they help return more questions. From there, you can answer questions relevant to your business.

Commun.it

This social media service lets you build more Twitter leads to increase your sales by focusing on your list of high-value members. Users who mention your name will appear on the list, making it easier for you to engage with them and strengthen your relationships. The tool will also automatically populate your different followers into groups for segmentation purposes. Similar to InboxQ, you can list down keywords that will be used to discover new leads for your business.

A free account allows you 30 times to engage with a single user, so be judicious with the posts you will make using this service.

Topsy and Social Mention

Social media is breeding grounds for customer feedback. This will prove valuable to possible clients of your business since they research on the Internet before they do any purchases. Positive reviews draw them in to your business, while negative repels them. What you want is to augment positive feedback, which is why searching for posts on Topsy and Social Mention and retweet, like, and comments on said posts.

For negative comments, make sure to provide answers to the issues they raised on their posts. If possible, find a way to correct your mistakes. This way, even if you received negative feedback on social media, the manner in which you addressed their concerns speaks volume of your customer support.

Long Tail Keywords versus Head Term

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Long tail keywords are the longer, more specific keywords that are less common, individually, but add up to account for the majority of search-driven traffic.

In the recent time , after updates of Google panda and Penguin updates, SEO world has completely changed, just because of many webmaster are doing spam and choose wrong keywords for their websites and then Google algorithms for the safe journey of keywords on ranking in Google SERP

So taking your website to get high rank you should take the steps of PPC campaign for generating traffic towards your website .

Take long tail keywords for the PPC because they are very helpful in comparison to the Head term

Head term Keywords : "fish tanks" is a head term,

Long Term Keywords: "compare prices whisper aquarium filters" is a long-tail keyword.

Google Panda Update 23 in December 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 06:22:00 +0000

Google has confirmed rumors of a Google update announcing on Twitter that they pushed out a Panda data refresh today impacting about 1.3% of English queries.

This would make for the 23rd Panda update since the first Panda algorithm was introduced on February 24, 2011. Since then we had 22 updates both to the algorithm and also to the index or data refreshes.

The latest impacted 1.3% of the queries, whereas version 22 impacted only 0.8% of English queries.

Social Media Failures 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:11:00 +0000

Google Update : Bing Scroogled Google

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:04:00 +0000

It’s on again: the eternal rivals fight dirty. At least one is: Bing. Google’s most powerful search competitor, a Microsoft product, is now populating the web with a questionable anti Google Shopping campaign [complete with URL - scroogled.com - and YouTube (!) videos]: From Google to Scroogle.

If the term Scroogle sounds familiar, this used to be a web service that allowed users to perform Google searches anonymously. It disappeared at the beginning of 2012, and re-emerged today, in a Bing ad:

Bing advises: don’t get Scroogled this holiday season.

As innocent as this may seem, the ad is a powerful attack against Google Shopping. Bing aims to raise awareness that since May 31, 2012 all Google shopping results are paid ads:

“Google Shopping is nothing more than a list of targeted ads that unsuspecting customers assume are search results. They call these Product Listing Ads a truly great search,” Bing warns on scroogled.com, then continues “We say that when you limit choices and rank them by payment, consumers get Scroogled. For an honest search result, try Bing.”

In all honesty, the reaction would be natural if it came from consumers rather than direct competitors. In the past, Google Shopping, formerly called Google Product Search, used to list merchants for free. Now all listings are paid – a brilliant monetization model by the world’s most powerful search engine, which also emphasized in a SEC disclosure that “after all, ads are just more answers to users’ queries.” Still, the transition from freemium to premium, although officially announced in May, begun in October. Naturally, Bing needed to wait for proof to initiate the attack. But it was carefully planned, and brilliantly executed.

Facebook steps to Business success

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:20:00 +0000

Build your Facebook Page

Facebook Pages let you build lasting relationships with your customers and create content that gets shown in news feed.

Pages allow you to:

• Express your identity with features like cover photos (851 x 315 pixels) and your business’s key milestones

• Add information about your business and respond to your customers in a quick, more personal way

To build your Page, simply:

• Visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php to create your Page

• Use the Build Audience button and invite friends, family and employees to like your Page

• Get your web address and promote it on all your marketing material by downloading free Facebook signs

• Click here for more information on Pages: ads.ak.facebook.com/ads/FacebookAds/Pages_Overview.pdf

Connect to new people with multiple well-targeted Facebook Ads

Once you have created your Page, increase your Page likes by connecting withmore customers using targeted Facebook Ads.

Facebook Ads allow you to:

• Grow your Page likes by offering valuable benefits and calls to action such as “LIke us to get exclusive sales”

• Reach a large audience with a well targeted Ad campaign so you can reach more people with your Page

To create Facebook Ads, simply:

• Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php to set up your Ads

• Create atleastfour versions of your Ads so you can experiment with differentimages, calls to action andmessaging

to understand which Ads are performing the best. Test out differenttargeting options like Broad Category targeting.

• Test a variety oftarget groupsbasedoncriteria suchas age, gender, likes, interests, location, etc.

• Regularly review the performance of your Ads by visiting http://www.facebook.com/ads/manage

Engage your audience with quality content

Create a posting strategy to engage your audience on an ongoing basis and increase your posts’ visibility in news feed.

Your posting strategy allows you to:

• Give your Page an authentic and consistent voice and encourage people to like and share your posts

• Bring more customers to your store with Facebook Offers they can claim and share with their friends

To develop your posting strategy, simply:

• Create a conversational calendar to help plan the timing and themes of your posts (we suggest 1–2 posts per week)

• Post engaging contentlike photos, videos and questions to encourage participation

• Schedule your posts tomanage yourtme and download the Pages Manager app for iPhone to manage via mobile

• Once you have 400 likes, promoting your posts is an easy way to reach more people in news feed

•Monitor and optimize your Page performance regularlyusing Page Insights. Get the Insights guide.

Facebook’s Steps to Business Success

Influence the friends of fans by promoting social activity from your Page

Extend the reach of your posts by promoting stories coming from friends about them engaging with your Page.

Promoting your Page’s social activity allows you to:

• Drive awareness and promote interactions from people with your business

• Increase the visibility of your audience’s engagement with your Page to generate word-of-mouth promotion

To promote social activity from your Page, simply:

• Create sponsored stories at: http://www.facebook.com/ads/create

• Ensure your Page has a minimum of 1000 likes so you have enough reach for your campaign

• Sponsor your most important and compelling posts and create Page like sponsored stories to get more likes

• Regularly review, pause and optimize your campaigns at http://www.facebook.com/ads/manage

• Review the Steps to Success and continue testing to see what works best

Tips for promoting a Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:06:00 +0000

Even if you write a quality post, no one will see it unless you promote it. But if you have more subscribers, there is no big problem because your subscribers will see your new posts. How ever, every blogger love to get more traffic. That’s why you read this post.

How to promote your new blog posts?

There are many ways to promote your new posts.

1. Sharing on social networking sites

Social networking sites are becoming popular day by day. So you can’t forget social networks. You can create a Facebook fan page and a Twitter profile for your blog. Then you can promote your new posts via those pages. And also you can promote your new posts via your personal Facebook account and Twitter account. You can also share your new posts on other social networking sites such as Google plus or LinkedIn.

2. Bookmarking on social bookmarking sites

Most bloggers say that Digg is the most popular social bookmarking site. That may be correct. But for me, Stumbleupon is the best social bookmarking site to promote your new posts. And also you can use Reddit and Delicious.

3. Commenting on CommentLuv enables blogs

CommentLuv is one of the most popular WordPress plugins. It allows the latest blog post of the commenter to be put automatically below his/her comment. Try to be the first commenter, and also put valuable comments. You can get many benefits like building relationships with the other bloggers, in addition to promoting the blog through blog commenting.

4. Forum posting

In a previous post of mine, I shared top 10 forums you should know as a blogger. If you use those forums correctly you can get decent traffic via those forums. But don’t start a new thread about your new post with the new post link. If you do that thing always, you will be banned from those forums (Spam reasons). Anyway, you can use your new post link as your forum signature.
If you have time you can do this this type of work also.
For an example, if you write a post about link building methods you can start a thread about link building. But never put your link in to that thread, you can put your link as your signature.
Forums members who visit to your thread, want to know about link building. So, that’s why they check your thread. Then they see your signature. After that they will click your signature and will land your blog.

5. Guest posting

I know that it is not possible to write guest posts after write every post because writing a guest post takes too much time. But after writing a high quality post, it is good to write a guest post. The reader who lands your post via that post, will check your most recent post. Even if most recent post is high quality there is a high probability of subscribing your blog.

6. Adding social sharing buttons

If you posts are quality, your reader may like to share it with their friends. So your social sharing buttons help to readers to do that. If your blogging platform is WordPress you can use a WordPress plugins like ShareThis or Digg Digg for adding social sharing buttons.
How do you promote your new posts? You can share it as a comment.

Do-follow Social Bookmarking links

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:11:00 +0000

Today We are posting some important do-follow Social Bookmarking links which are given as follows :

digg.com
diigo.com
bibsonomy.org
delicious.com
stumbleupon.com
xinb2b.com
thawab.net
slixo.com
earthdayvb.com
.mouvement.tv
jetdonkey.com
bookmarking.villebiz.info
acymca.net
arisf.com
boxybuzz.com
confesen.com
cvaad.com
bookmarkerportal.com
bookmarkwheel.info
bookmarkvision.com
bookmarkswan.com
bookmarksdiary.com
bookmarkorient.com
bookmarkinsider.com
bookmarktheweb.com
bookmarktwist.com
bookmarksphere.com
bookmarkgallore.com
bookmarkgallore.com
digzz.com
facerob.com
forgalombolkivonas.com
bookmarkyoursite.info
bookmarkzap.com
celticbookmarks.com
cadillactight.net
brightwerks.com
hibye-app.com
ifizzle.com
livesocial.info
listitsocial.com
linkerbook.com
moneydivas.com
onlinebookmarkingsite.com
pagesocial.com
newbookmarksite.info
oomega.info
socialbookmarkingentry.info
socialbookmarkingtrends.info
socialbookmarkingworld.info
socialbookmarkingdelicious.info
socialbookmarkingdel.info
socialbookmarkingengine.info
socialbookmarkingbenefit.info
scalespro.com
socialstumbles.com
socialboom.info
socialdofollow.com
sociopost.com
socialmarketbooks.info
socialn.net
socialnewsarticles.info
socialnetworkbookmarking.info
soforce.com
somethingaboutmaryman.com
sociallinksdir.com
tagworld.com
summarized.net
sweedeedeejerky.com
topranksocialbookmarking.info
toponlinebookmarks.info
taggingsocial.info
suffil.com
tilehbaz.com
thuhm.com
submit2this.com
thebookmarks.net
.sparklinkx.com
ukmediaroom.com
uncommonheroine.com
vazak.com
v2.15aside.com
twistsocial.com
tunebookmarks.com
tugsocial.com
writer-base.com
withopeneyesfoundation.com
webample.com
websocialbookmark.info
vermontaco.org
videobookmarking.info
voteitsocial.com
whatsonsocial.com
allsocialbookmarking.info
americansocialtag.info
anysocialbookmarking.info
articlessocialbookmarking.info
atlantique-2007-2013.org
atozpia.com
a2zsocialbookmarking.com
2morelinks.com
123socialbookmarking.com
bestsocialbookmarkingsitesz.com
analyzebookmarks.com
arrisweb.com
aviationcentral.net
aynrandia.com
backlinkdofollow.com
beastdigg.com
almaformichigan.com
adzposting.com
03m.info
3dilusion.com
bookmarkentry.com
bookmarkgo.info
bookmarkgator.com
bookmarkconnect.com
billstrickland.info
bookmark-website.info
bookmarkace.com
bookmarkhunt.com
bookmarkking.info
bookmarksharer.com
bookmarkstandard.com
bookmarksmash.com
bookmarksitetoday.info
bookmarksqueeze.com
boxydizz.com
cedarapp.com
index4.in
dotpoch.com
oyax.com
solinkable.com
vodzone.com
dvdru.net
sbuydigg.com
postolia.comuser
hibo5k.com
infoawl.com
nailtoday.net
impactra.com
addyourself.com
way2bookmarks.com
esocialbookmarks.com
pxpf.combusiness
yoomark.com
kartonworkz.com
socialnetworkingsite.ca
rebookmarks.com
scoxq.com
macambo.net
dcwn.org
clickuplink.com
dropyourlink.com
28g.co.uk
jewelry-scales-balances.com
humansthink.com
aaur.info
skinggle.com
nablr.com
websitekey.info
yourlubbockwedding.com
liiink.com
digg-bookmarks.com
garminnuvi350reviews.com
pillfish.net
flashbuzz.info
huzoo.com
socialwriting.info
gotagged.com
bookmarksland.comsubmit
dosocialbookmark.comsubmit
sanook-dig.com
dealqi.com
mindzinger.com
abcbookmarks.com
atozscan.com
raptower.comsubmit
webrchive.infosubmit
linkpopo.comsubmit
newnooze.info
netselektor.infosubmit
advertisingyoursite.orgsubmit
biotematur.com
sociocomplement.infosubmit
oyazexten.infosubmit
qmarknow.infosubmit
shinymarker.com
upcomingnews.info
diggread.comadd_story.php
onlinebookmarking.comsubmit
savedbookmarks.comsubmit
ubookmark.comsubmit
socio-markinn.infosubmit
hipby.com
buzzbuzz.casubmit
domorelinks.com
gotrendy.infosubmit
tag-ziolinking.info
linkagogos.info
socialbookmarkingblogs.info
kwcloud.info
indexdomain-inn.info
socialframework.info
folkd.com
tagza.com
boomarking.com
linkagogo.com
azdigg.com
karmalynx.com
topsocialbookmarkingsiteslist.com
submitanewlink.com
socialbookmarkingads.com
addanewlink.com
bookmarkingpages.info
bookmarkingranking.info
bookmarkingreviews.info
bookmarkingsharing.info
bookmarkingshopping.info
generalbookmarkers.info
freesocialbookmarks.info
freedofollowbacklinks.info
socialbookmarkingads.info
newsocialbookmarker.info
onlinebookmarkingjobs.info
dofollowsocialforum.info
manualbookmarking.info
bookmarkingengine.info
bookmarkingbasics.info
bookmakermirrorsite.info
bookmarkingblogger.info
articlesbookmarking.info
bookmarkingimprove.info
comparebookmarking.info
bookmarkinglibraries.info
bookmarkingposter.info
socialwebdirectories.info
socialwebsitebuilder.info
socialmediabacklinks.info
socialmediawebsites.info
bookmarkingdelicious.info
bookmarkingimportant.info
bookmarkinginformation.info
zabox.net
markered.info
voteforduane.org
socialadda.com
myentertainment.in
globalbookmark.info
earth-seo-bookmark.info
globalbooketching.info
worldbookmessage.info
worldbookmark.info
universal-bookmark.info
newworldbookmarking.info
bestglobalbookmarks.info
globalbookmarksnow.info
bestworldseobookmark.info
global-bookmark.info
worldbookmarkingstore.info
somethingaboutmaryman.com
wikilinked.com
linksatall.com
findperfectdress.com
bookmarkzeby.com
softbookmarks.com
finnol.com
podshow411.net

Penguin recovery after a Panda update :2013

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Setia) — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:03:00 +0000

As Thanksgiving approaches, there are a few additional things for me to be thankful for this year. And as you can tell by the title of this post, they have to do with cute black and white animals who like to ravage websites. :)

In August I wrote a case study about a very interesting Penguin recovery. A client of mine, who was hit by both Panda and Penguin during the April 2012 algorithm sandwich, finally ended up recovering from Penguin, but during a Panda update. That struck me as odd, although I wasn’t necessarily complaining. I simply had some questions for Google regarding the timing of the recovery. For example, was there a Penguin update during the Panda update? Are Panda and Penguin connected somehow? And does Penguin bubble up to Panda? I never received answers to my questions, but I was happy that my client recovered. So I moved on.

Well, here we are three months later, and it happened again. I have another client that was hammered by Penguin on April 24th, losing 75% of their Google organic search traffic overnight. They contacted me in July to try and right the ship, and I started helping them in early August. In this post, I’ll explain more about how I helped them, their progress over time, and how they eventually recovered from Penguin during a Panda update. You can see their initial drop in traffic below.

On 4/24, They Experienced The Classic Penguin Drop in Traffic:

Two Important Points As You Read This Case Study – Panda and The Disavow ToolOn November 5^th, my client recovered from Penguin. That was incredible news, but if you’re checking the dates of algorithm updates in your head right now, you’ll realize that November 5^th wasn’t the latest Penguin update. It was the latest Panda update. Yes, that means my client recovered from Penguin during a Panda update (and this was the second time I had seen that happen). So once again, I had questions about the connection between Panda and Penguin.

But this case study isn’t just about Penguin recoveries during Panda updates. Since the disavow tool was released in October, we were able to supplement our link removal efforts by using Google’s new tool. And I’m glad it was released. More on that soon.

Below, I’m going to cover my client’s recovery story in detail. I believe there are some important points that can help webmasters who have been hit by Penguin, but who may still be struggling to recover. Also, it’s important to note that my client was nice enough to let me write this blog post documenting their situation. They definitely understand that their own experiences can help others impacted by Penguin. I’m thankful for that too. Let’s begin.

A Troubling Inbound Link AnalysisI’ve done a lot of work with websites hit by Penguin since April 24th. If you are interested, you can read my previous posts covering the topic, including Penguin 1.0 findings, 7 More Penguin Findings from the Over Optimization Front Lines, and Panda or Penguin, How to Know Which Algorithm Update Impacted Your Website. All three posts contain important insights, based on my analysis of 140+ websites hit by Penguin.

When reviewing a site hit by Penguin, it usually doesn’t take long to find a troubling link profile. You typically find a high percentage of exact match anchor text leading to a site from a number of spammy websites, directories, link networks, etc. In extreme cases, the entire link profile is filled with problematic links…

Realizing the Potential Loss of Link PowerMy client’s link profile was in bad shape. Unfortunately, some of their previous linkbuilding tactics led to a few thousand spammy links. After heavily analyzing their inbound links, I realized that about 70% of their links were categorized as unnatural. In case you’re wondering, I used a number of tools to identify and analyze their links, including Open Site Explorer, Majestic SEO Tools, and of course, Google Webmaster Tools.

The Percentage of Unnatural Links That Needed to be Addressed:

Once the link analysis was completed, I knew that a few thousand links would need to be removed in order for my client to recover. And I also knew that the spammy links comprised a large percentage of their total links. That meant they may not have much search power when, and if, they recovered. Yes, we had a lot of work to do.

Matt Cutts and the Disavow ToolIt’s important to note that the disavow tool was not released at this point. I knew it was coming soon (based on Matt Cutts explaining this in early June), and I explained this to my client. Regardless, I wanted to tackle as many link removals as we could manually. In addition, we had no idea when the tool was actually coming. It could have launched within weeks, or it could have been months. We just didn’t know.

Excel Spreadsheet MadnessI love Excel. It can be an SEO’s best friend. But for Penguin, you need to be prepared for Excel madness, working with many spreadsheets and worksheets, with thousands of URL’s to analyze. Yes, it can get monotonous. And that’s exactly what happened in this case.

With thousands of links to check, I implemented a multi-phase approach. I wanted several sets of eyeballs on the links, including key people at my client’s company. What I might see as potentially spammy, they might see as an older and valuable link (based on knowledge of their own industry). I’m aggressive with my Penguin approach, but I don’t like collateral damage. And that’s especially the case when my client didn’t have the luxury of many quality links. I didn’t want them to lose any “good” links.

Our final spreadsheets started to take form. We had links flagged for removal, links flagged as possible removals, and then links flagged as safe. All spreadsheets were sent to my client for final review. Once we had the green light from my client, we were ready to rock and roll with link removal requests.

Manual Link RemovalsNow that our spreadsheets were ready, and spammy links flagged, I helped my client craft an email for link removal requests. By the way, I’m a firm believer that the company hit by Penguin should send the link removal requests, and not the consultant or agency. I feel it’s the proper way to go. So, my client moved fast and sent link removal requests out to many webmasters. Now we just needed to hear back from them and hopefully see some movement with link takedowns.

Some webmasters responded and took the links down. Some questioned why we wanted the links taken down, and my guess is their reaction was based on receiving other requests too. And of course, some webmasters just didn’t respond at all. I was completely expecting this, but hoped we could impact a good amount of unnatural links with this first wave of requests.

Phase I Results: Our initial link removal requests took down ~20-25% of the spammy links. Not bad, but not good enough. I knew we needed to have more links removed.

Phase II – Hello WhoIs DataThe second phase involved tracking down any information we could about the domain owners who didn’t respond. Note, many of these domains were spammy directories, so we knew we wouldn’t track down every person in control of the websites.

A modified spreadsheet was created with contact information we could find via whois data. Then my client contacted those domain owners via the newly-found information. This resulted in another 10-15% of the links being taken down. At this point, we had ~40% of the spammy links removed. To me, this was progress, but still wasn’t good enough.

During this process, we documented which links were removed, which domains were contacted, which ones responded, and which ones didn’t respond at all. We would need this data for the reconsideration request, which I cover next.