I thought it is worth to discuss the same with my readers. The issue with duplicate content is that if the duplicate content is published on a more authoritative site then it will outrank the original site in long run. The same thing has happened with the experiment of "credit card concierge.” You can see the screenshot below
The The Four Hour Workweek website which is more authority website than Credit card chaser and was ranked 7th just below credit card chaser on 6th position and now it is ranked 5th while credit card chaser went down a place to 7th.The above rankings might have Datacenter variances. However you can now see what is the after effect of duplicate content.
I have also had similar situtation in which duplicate content outranked my website but then I slowly regained my position. Patience and determinated work can make you back on top. We need to collect more authority links to rank higher. Great content and good links are the key to SEO success.
I don't want to go much deep into the penalty of duplicate content. In the above experiment there is no chance of a penality as they have provided backlink to the orginal resource.
If you want to discuss more about this contact SEO Consultant Author Cijo Abraham Mani @seoherald
It seems that Google has changed its local business listing/map listings to be shown as a place page for brand name search results. This change seems to help website URL’s to rank higher for their domain names and dominate the search with maps. Google also has a benefit as the visitors only have the option of going to Google Maps page via the Place page link and they cannot go directly to the website. This will increase the traffic to Google Maps.
Here is a screenshot
Note some of the differences:
1) The business website now shows above the map listing pushing the map listing one place down in the SERP's.
2) URL of the website is not displayed and there is only one option to Place Page.
3) The map pin next the business name becomes larger
4) No more stars for business reviews.
5) Reviews are not shown for all listings. The reviews are shown in the SERP listing only if the map listing of the website has significant number of reviews.
I am not sure if this is just a testing done by Google Maps Team. The change seems to have happened on July 10th , 2010.
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I am a big fan of video optimisation, in particular Youtube optimisation. What I find is that if you can find certain keyphrases that have a good chance of being found in both Youtube and Google, then you will get a large amount of traffic come through to your site as a result.
You can do this usually by simply typing a keyphrase in Youtube search area and it will usually start coming up with suggested terms, then you just decide which title you would like to go for with your video.
The key thing here is to get good amounts of subscribers and friends to your channel, this will get you popular and have others link to your channel and give it more power in the serps. So getting backlinks to your profile an videos is one thing.
The 2nd thing is adding the right meta title and description and keywords for each video, be sure to add good titles and keywords.
And 3rd most important thing which not many people are aware of is submitting your video to niche video sites, for example if your video is about comedy, then submit it to Break.com before submitting it again to Youtube, this ensures you will get quality score to your Youtube video. If you have a video on SEO, then submit your video to GSEO.net/video-submit.php again this is an extremely score to Youtube.
You can monitor how you are doing and to some degree where your links and traffic are coming from through the insights tab. Here I have included some screenshots:
This gives demographic and regional information, very handy if your targeting a specific age group or city or country.
Here is very interesting information on the type of backlinks you are getting to your video:
The great thing about the insights tool is you can drill down even further by clicking on each area to get more information, then you can also generate a report using a csv file.
Here is some helpful information that can help you understand how to optimise a youtube video a bit better.
And lastly if your serious about ranking well then GSEO.net have an amazing video backlinking tool that can increase your video in the serps in literally minutes. By submitting your video through GSEO it will appear something like this with tags and be recognised to youtube as a quality backlink, check it out here:
One of the website my team worked on got a Google Penalty. The possible reason for the penalty might have been external site-wide links. The first thing I did was to look for the rankings of the website in other major search engines Yahoo and Bing. The keywords were still on top on both the other search engines. The next thing was to avoid the panic situation which webmasters and SEO experts face when they see one of the websites their team work upon gets a penalty for some wrong action/wrong SEO practices. The penalty for our website might have been due to some sort of spam link building tactics done on the website. I tried to handle the situation as calm as possible. Below are the steps I took to remove the effect of the penalty.
Day 1: First thing I did on the page is to change all the file names to show new page URL thus removing the spam link effect of all previous off-page submissions done. I blocked all the old pages using robots.txt. I changed all the content in newly created pages.
Day 2: Created new Title and Meta Tags for the newly created page and uploaded the same. I also removed the old RSS feed. I then re-submitted the Sitemap.
Day 3: Send a reconsideration request to Google through webmaster tools account.
Day 5: The website has got all the SERP back and some keywords got higher SERP.
The first and the formost thing is to check whether your website is having a penalty or not. There are many ways to check the same. You can read about 10 Ways to Diagnose a Google Penalty .
Share your thoughts and experiences of avoiding Google penalty. You can a share the things you have done to avoid a Google penalty. You can get in touch with me personally through my Twitter Handle @cijoaj2003
I have noticed a new Name Search feature on Twitter. I think this is due to excess number of celebrities and brands joining the platform . This new feature will help us to search out a brand or a celebrity easily. This name search placement is going to be a free for the time being but Twitter might charge brands for a sponsered place as more brands start to join the platform.
Here is a screenshot of Twitter's new name search
Currently twitter is suggesting the top accounts which are related to the specific term for which are conducting the search. In future twitter might just make this feature a paid one so that tweeps/brands can place their accounts featured near a particular search term.The above search feature could also be turned out to be a follow suggestion in feature.
We need to wait and see what twitter team is planning to do with this new feature.
Here is the screenshot of previous normal name search on Twitter
I think that the new name search feature is more effective than the old one as we can easily get the tweeps with real time search terms.
I would like to hear your views on Twitter new name search as well the old name search feature.
