How expired landing pages kill your Google rankings

Soft 404s can lead to a poor user experience, fewer conversions and impact your site’s visibility more than the loss in PageRank from maintaining them. Here’s how to properly deal with expired landing pages.

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Three well-meaning paid search optimizations that might kill performance

That recent adjustment to your paid search campaign seemed like a good idea at the time, but now you’re seeing a drop in performance. How could this happen? Columnist Andy Taylor notes some common issues that arise from well-intended optimization choices. The post Three well-meaning paid search…

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Google Orders Terminator Robots Not To Kill Founders Brin & Page

How do you stop the unstoppable killer Terminators if you’re not Sarah Connor? Google does it with a simple text file. People have noted today that Google has a special “robot.txt” file that pokes fun at stopping the Terminators. Robots.txt files are actually used to stop robots…

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Incisive Media To Kill SES Brand, Rename Conference “ClickZ Live”

SES — formerly Search Engine Strategies — is about to undergo another name change, this time to “ClickZ Live.” The news comes from an email that Incisive Media sent to various contributors. From the email: Tomorrow is a big day for ClickZ and its sister brands Search Engine…

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Did Hummingbird Just Kill Your Local SEO Strategy?

Let’s cut to the chase: no, it didn’t (see Betteridge’s Law of Headlines). But Search Engine Land tells me the Hummingbird stuff really drives the page views these days, so you only have yourself to blame. :) That said, Google’s Hummingbird algorithm, along with all of the…

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