Saturday, May 11, 2013

Does having 2 Rich Snippets in the Search Results Help Increase Traffic and Social SEO Appeal

Google uses by default the S+YW results. You have to click the globe to hide personal results.

Google decides which of your ranked pages will render your Rich Snippet (G+ profile head shot) and will only render it once per search result. However, in the screen cap below, there are two ranked pages with my Rich Snippet connected to the ranked page.

rich snippets

I've been testing multiple search phrases where more than one of my Rich Snippets shows up in the SERP's like this one on How to Market Your Real Estate Property on a Smart Phone Device.

How to Market Your Real Estate Property on a Smart Phone Device

Here's the question and quandary I'm trying to figure out? Will having more than 1 Rich Snippet in the search results increase any of these metrics;
  • Click Thru Rate
  • Profile Authority
  • Influence on your other Socials

The same 2 snippet routine happens on many other search phrases I've been writing content for so determine all of the above metrics. The jury is still out but there are some definite implications in my research thus far. Is your Rich Snippet showing up in the search results on your top pages and posts? If not, let's talk

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

How to get your Content Ranked on Page 1 of Google [Infographic]

10 tips for writing content that ranks in 2013




http://contentverve.com/seo-copywriting-10-tips-content-ranks-infographic/
Not surprising, write for humans and optimize for bots is still a technique we all know and love. If you Google How to Get Ranked on Page 1 of Google or its various iterations, you'll see what I mean. To discuss your on-page optimization and how to get your content ranked on page 1 of Google Click Here

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Top WordPress Plugins 2013

A SMB client of mine recently asked me what are the top WordPress plugins he should be using on his new Fairfax Printing site. I popped over to my WP dashboard and took a couple of screen caps so I didn't have to hard key each of the top WordPress plugins I use on my various websites.

wordpress plugins

This is the top ½ of the plugins roster

The blue highlighted plugin should give you a reference on where the bottom ½ are listed below.

This is the bottom ½ of the WP plugins dashboard feed

In my view, one of the main reasons so many of us use WordPress to publish out content is due to the awesome free plugins available to ensure that our Onpage Optimization SEO efforts produce good results. By good results, I am referring to finding the right mix of onpage optimization seo and offpage optimization seo tactics will help our web pages get ranked on page 1 of Google for our targeted keyword phrase.