Google confirms that Social Media Links Influence SEO

Does Google confirm that links from social media have influence on rankings?

Over the past years Google has added many social search features. There has been talk about using social signals to help rank regular search results.

The Web SEO Analytics Team asked Matt Cutts: “A recent article of Danny Sullivan suggests that Google uses Twitter and Facebook links as a ranking signal. Can you confirm this? Can you elaborate a little bit more on this?”

Find Matt Cutts answers to this question at the following video:



Review of the 1st Austrian SEO Conference SEOkomm 2010

SEOkomm

SEOkomm

The 1st Austrian SEO Conference “SEOkomm” was a fully successful SEO event.

My review of the SEOkomm 2010.

The echo from the SEO community regarding the SEOkomm is with one accord positive. In future the the German speaking SEO scene will not only for skiing and snowboarding visit Austria, the “Who’s Who” of german speaking SEO specialists will from now on meet once a year at the SEOkomm in Salzburg to interchange there SEO know-how.

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“Everyone is a Publisher Today”

- Wie Sie dafür sorgen, dass Ihr Content schneller gefunden wird!

Das ist Titel des Vortrages den ich auf der SEOkomm in Salzburg gehalten habe.

Hier könnt Ihr den Vortrag als PDF downloaden:

Everyone is a Publisher Today Alle Rechte der Bilder liegen bei der SEOkomm.

Vielen Dank an die SEOkomm für die zur Verfügungstellung der Bilder.

Google’s SEO Starter Guide PDF download

The Googlebot is crawling content on the Internet for Google’s index every day, every night, non stop.

The Google Seach Engine Optimization Starter Guide explains various points on search engine optimization (SEO)!

Googlebot

Googlebot


SEO Best Practices

SEO Best Practices

This SEO Guide first began as an effort to help teams within Google, but than Google thought it’d be just as useful to webmasters that are new to the topic of search engine optimization and wish to improve their sites interaction with both users and search engines. Although this guide won’t tell you any secrets that’ll automatically rank your site first for queries in Google (sorry!), following the best practices outlined below will make it easier for search engines to crawl, index and understand your content.

Table of Contents

SEO Basics
- Create unique, accurate page titles
- Make use of the “description” meta tag

Improving Site Structure
- Improve the structure of your URLs
- Make your site easier to navigate

Optimizing Content
- Offer quality content and services
- Write better anchor text
- Optimize your use of images
- Use heading tags appropriately

Dealing with Crawlers
- Make effective use of robots.txt
- Be aware of rel=”nofollow” for links

SEO for Mobile Phones
- Notify Google of mobile sites
- Guide mobile users accurately

Promotions and Analysis
- Promote your website in the right ways
- Make use of free webmaster tools

Google SEO Starter Guide PDF downloaden

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