Posted by JonQ

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You could be the best SEO in the world, with the best recommendations your clients ever seen; but if this information isn’t presented and communicated in the right way, the sad fact is that your hard work probably won’t change a thing. A couple of weeks back, Dan and I ran a very enjoyable Mozinar on this very topic. (A huge thank you to everyone who listened in!) If you did miss it, feel free to check out the recording and download the slides here. Rather than talking through the ins and outs of technical SEO, we really wanted to dive into what, in our

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

• Google To Soften The Panda Algorithm
  As I covered yesterday, in very brief summary, Google's Matt Cutts told us ten SEO changes coming to Google by the end of this summer. One of those changes is softening the impact of the Panda algorithm for sites that are in the...
• One Year Later, Only 9% Claim Google Penguin Recovery
  A few weeks ago was the one year anniversary of the Google Penguin update. As you know, we have not had a Penguin update in well over six months, but we are bracing ourselves for the next...
• Google: More Sophisticated Link Analysis & Link Devaluing In Works
  As part of our ongoing deeper thoughts on the video Matt Cutts made about

Whether or not it’s fair to classify WordStream as a startup, we certainly still think of ourselves that way. And one of the challenges of startup life is the rapid growth – meaning our needs often outpace our hiring.

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Lately, that’s the case with content creation, so we’re looking for a few good freelance writers to help us out. So if you love writing, Internet marketing, and extra money, we want to hear from you! Specifically, I’m looking for someone(s) who:

• Has hands-on experience with search marketing – WordStream is very meta in that we market about marketing, do SEO on pages about SEO, create PPC ads for our PPC software and so on. So if you’re going to write for us, you need to have experience with the world of

How to Make a Graphic-Text Mash-up to Promote Blog Content on Facebook was originally published on BruceClay.com, home of expert search engine optimization tips.

As a community manager and a blogger, I have 2 main needs for images: 1. Including them in BCI blog posts to break up text and add visual interest 2. Posting images to social media to share blog and other BCI content What you'll know by the end of reading this is:

• Where I get images, both free and paid services
• How to make a graphic-text mash-up using Google Drive that will get noticed in the midst of noisy Facebook, Twitter and Google+ streams

Posted by bradfriedman

We've got new, delicious data for you! The second Mozscape index of the month is now live. Consume all the data with your favorite apps, including Open Site Explorer, the Mozbar, your PRO campaigns, and the Mozscape API.

Below is the histogram with the crawl dates.

Here are the metrics for this index:

• 90,641,413,665 (91 billion) URLs
• 7,388,144,649 (7.4 billion) Subdomains
• 158,669,066 (159 million) Root Domains
• 926,144,106,342 (926 billion) Links
• Followed vs. Nofollowed
  • 2.14% of all links found were nofollowed/li>
  • 57% of nofollowed links are internal
  • 43% are external
• Rel Canonical - 14.42% of all pages use a rel=canonical tag
• The average page has 79 links on it
  • 68 internal links on average
  • 11 external links on average

And the correlations with Google's US search results:

• Page Authority - 0.36
• Domain Authority - 0.19
• MozRank - 0.24
• Linking Root Domains - 0.30
• Total Links - 0.25
• External Links - 0.29

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