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Optimizing Your Content in the New SEO Environment

Marketwired

In 2011 Google launched Panda, a change in Google’s ranking algorithm that scores websites based on the quality of their content and their overall user experience. Just ask Val Zamulin, head of SEO for ICM Consulting and Media Corporation, a Toronto-based internet marketing company. [By Aaron Broverman].

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The 7 “New” Rules Of Digital PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The unofficial kickoff of the digital PR industry goes back to late 2011 and early 2012, when Google’s Panda and Penguin algorithm updates turned the SEO category upside down. The updates rewarded quality content and penalized spammy SEO tricks that had propelled dubious websites to page one of the search rankings.

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Shaping My World In 2011: Tackling The Triangle

Waxing UnLyrical

While I’m not calling them my un-resolutions, here’s what I will try to do more – or less – of in 2011. In 2011, I would like to see WUL really take flight; not just from a content point of view, but continue to expand and become a landing pad for global voices of public relations and social media.

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2 Enduring Strategies for These Content-Saturated Times

PRSay

2011 — Facebook follower numbers seemed to grow on their own. I’m not saying that press release SEO, Facebook pages or Snapchat strategies are bad. Your audiences would find it when they searched, so why bother with those pesky reporters? Google figured this out, and now they ignore or even penalize links from news releases.

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The Death Of A PR Firm, By Bad PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

When it was called out for crossing ethical lines by using false propaganda and fake grassroots in 2011, Bell Pottinger blasted critics but apparently never saw fit to police its methods. Years before the Oakbay fiasco Bell Pottinger was caught bragging about black-hat SEO tactics to a group posing as representing Uzbekistan.

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How to Evolve with the 2016 PR Trends

Marketwired

For example, in 2011 Google created Panda, its content algorithm. Since SEO as we used to know it no longer exists, it’s all the more important to have a content strategy in place along with a team to execute it. Now (as of 2016) Panda is integrated into Hummingbird, Google’s core algorithm.

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Four Marketing Blunders That Will Cost You

5W PR

According to Pew Research Centre, 77% of Americans owned smartphones in 2017, a rise from 35% in 2011. This explains why Google has been giving SEO priority to websites optimized for mobile phone users. So, when people are looking at your website, they most likely doing it from their phone.