Scritty over at DemonDemon.com has an entertaining and educational how-to article and video regarding recovering from Google penalties for over-optimization. Check it out.

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There's an interesting post in Search Engine Journal titled "Feeding the Content Machine: 6 Steps to Repurpose and Maximize Content Creation" by Marcela DeVivo who says, "By following this methodology once a month, you can both feed the content machine, create multimedia content for social shares and link bait, and rise above the content noise."
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Brian Massey has a fantastic article in Search Engine Land titled "5 Simple Ways to Debug Your Google Analytics Installation". In it he advises "If you are questioning the data you’re getting out of Google Analytics; if your e-commerce reporting doesn’t match your sales; if you really thought there’d be more downloads of your whitepaper on the fonts used in movie credits; then you can use these tools to find out if Google Analytics is broken or if the error lies somewhere else."
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Search Engine Journal's Adam Morgan has pulled together a good article with infographics displaying 2012 SERP statistics that we thought you'd be interested in viewing.
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Amy Gesenhues reports in this Search Engine Land article that "Findings from a new study show the visibility of Google Shopping in Google’s "Universal Search” results dropped significantly after the search engine implemented a new paid inclusion model. Video content also dropped but still remained by far the most dominant source mixed with web page listings."
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Haris Bacic over at Search Engine Journal believes that co-citation and co-occurrence are going to play a fundamental role in determining search engine rankings for websites. According to his theory, natural and impartial co-occurrences are going to be the future basis of search engine rankings. What do you think?
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After attending a recent Google training event and testing the new enhancements, Joey Bridges over at Search Engine Journal has some good advice to share: "When Google changes the rules of the game, it is best to know the new rules so we can bend them in our favor".  His article covers tablets, mobile phones, quality scores, sitelinks and more.

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Rank Ranger's Rank Graph and Rankings Summary Search Engines report have been upgraded with Traffic from Google Analytics.  Check out the sharp look of our new graph and the convenience of viewing the traffic data alongside of Ahrefs, Majestic, competition ranking and more all in one report.

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That's what the farrier said when he overheard the team tossing around ideas to solve the challenge Google Places and personalization presents to search engine rank monitoring.  Now the farrier obviously isn't an SEO expert, but we were pumped by his enthusiasm and after a little more brainstorming we added a new feature that we believe provides you with the options you need.
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David Naylor reports in his blog that "the BBC got a link warning! At first I just smiled and started to move on then in the back of my mind I thought will this affect them in any way?"   David provides an interesting snapshot of how RSS syndication can now harm a site's Google rankings.
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