The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report my blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 57,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 21 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Report no longer available.
Thank you for visiting my blog and for a great 2013!
We all know that content is king, and its empire is growing by the minute. This is more true now more than ever since Google’s Hummingbird algorithm update. One of the best ways to add content to your website is to create and maintain a blog focused around topics relevant to your company’s industry. A blog is also a great way for professionals to build their personal brand by writing about industry topics and trends. Continue reading
There has been a lot of buzz in the marketing world the last couple of days about an update to the rankings section of Google’s Webmasters Tools. The update reads:
In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by creating high-quality sites that users will want to use and share.
Prior to this update, Google encouraged marketers to focus on link building for improving site rankings:
In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages.
This is not a big surprise because the importance of unique and well written content on websites has been steadily increasing over the past few years. This update does not mean that other factors, such as site structure, internal and external link building, Author tags, and social signals are not important. But, in level of importance, unique and well-written content is definitely at the top of the pyramid. Continue reading