Dear Google, Should I Focus On Content Creation Or DMCA Takedowns?

by on April 25, 2013 3 Comments

As a blogger, should I focus on content creation or spend enormous time on finding content scrapers and then for filing DMCA Takedown notices? Please advice…

Confused

I’m very much annoyed that you continue giving higher ranking to content scrapers even after your so-called algorithmic updates Panda, Penguin, Caffeine, etc. I completely understand when a higher authority website outranks ours even for an exact match "title search".

But there’s no excuse when a spammy content scraper website continues to outrank the original blog posts. Recently you published a Webmaster video where Matt Cutts explains how Google finds it difficult to find the real author of an article.

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How To Test The “Responsiveness” Of Your Website

by on April 13, 2013 3 Comments

Want to test the “responsiveness” of your blog/website? Try Screenfly! As you can see I have switched to Genesis Framework from ColorLabs early this month and I love it. And while I was testing the design with various devices and browsers I noticed that there were minor design conflicts.

Minterest Screenshot

For this, I was looking for a service to test the blog at different screen resolutions and that’s how I found Screenfly. You can test your website on almost all devices with ANY screen size including Desktops/Laptops, Tablets, Mobile Phones, and Television.

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Minteresting Friday — Digital Media Resources Mashup – March 22, 2013

by on March 23, 2013 Leave a Comment

Friday

Minteresting Friday is a Digital Media roundup by Minterest that compiles the finest Digital Marketing, Social Media, Technology, and Web. 2.0 resources that you don’t want to miss.

My Picks

The “My Picks” category of Friday post this week will focus on few case studies that are priceless. You simply can’t find the information on the following blogs posts elsewhere as they’re either case studies or author’s experience and hence I decided to feature them on top as my favorites.

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Forget Content Marketing, Let’s Focus On Content Curation

by on March 21, 2013 Leave a Comment

Curate

A content curator is someone who aggregates content from across the web. They’re not the ones who copy stuff from the Internet and repost the same on social media, blogs, etc. Content curators are passionate about what they share and hence they “curate” content before sharing by adding more information and value to it.

Content Curation is different from Content Creation because curators don’t generate any significant content by themselves. Their primary goal is to find interesting stuff and then re-publish the same by adding their own views about the content.

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Everything You Need To Recover From Google Panda & Penguin [Tips & Resources]

by on February 27, 2013 1 Comment

Penalty

If you’re an SEO then you probably know that Google Panda is two years old. The first Google Panda Update (or farmer update) was on February 24, 2011 targeting content farms (and those made for search engine sites) and it was a nightmare for webmasters. And then there were more updates to penalize websites that were over-optimized (Google Penguin), using  exact match domains, pages with too many above the fold ads, etc.

I love all these updates as it improves the search experience of users and that’s obviously the goal of a search engine. That said, Google is STILL far away from that “perfect” search engine definition.

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Top 25 WordPress Plugins 2013 To Supercharge Your Blog

by on February 15, 2013 1 Comment

WordPress

As you probably know WordPress is the darling of bloggers and is the most popular Content Management System (CMS). According to WordPress.org there are over 60 million WordPress powered websites and there are 23,598 plugins that can transform your blog into almost anything you can imagine.

Webmasters and developers love WordPress because of its flexibility and the plugins as there is a plugin for almost anything. I wrote a blog post on Top 30 WordPress Plugins 2012 last year and today I’m going to revisit WordPress plugins by blogging my current favorites.

I have just 13 WordPress Plugins active on this blog and those are the only plugins which I can’t live without. That said, I’m not going to limit this blog post with just 13 plugins as there are some other plugins which you probably need.

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The Definitive Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Handbook

by on February 12, 2013 2 Comments

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Guide

If you’re a newbie or someone who wants to learn Search Engine Optimization (SEO) then searching through a plethora of options on the Web is a task by itself. SEO is changing daily and you probably don’t know where to start, what to follow, and what to ignore, right?

I started writing this blog post as a link building resource blog post and then decided to cover (almost) all the aspects of SEO linking to some of the best resources available. If I have missed any interesting resource or an aspect of SEO then feel free to comment below and I’ll add it to the list.

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