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Welcome to the IMG Weekly Chat Digest #47

IMG Weekly Chat Digest #47

We’re bringing together all the highlights from the week in IMG to save you time and in case you missed something relevant.

Here are a few highlights:

    • A Single SERP Page?
    • Controlling Where Backlinks Are Pointed
    • Keyword Research & Development
    • Powerful Links from Nofollow Sites
    • Ranking Correlation Between SE’s

And more…


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In episode 2 of the Competitive Advantage Master Course, Marty Marion discusses positioning and depositioning in the SERPs. He also reveals his keyword research strategy and methods for winning clients by tying projections to annual revenue.

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Now, This Week’s IMG Community Chat Digest!

1. Google showing only one page of results

Members: Brian Hong, Suzy B and Martin X

Topic – General SEO

Summary: 
Has anyone ever typed in a search query in Google and only had page 1 results.  Google got rid of all other pages and there is ONLY 1 page of results? …

Martin: Well, Google’s long term goal is to answer everything directly on Google…


2. Controlling where your backlinks are pointed?

Members: Lauren Proctor, Vishal, Connor Duggan and Todd Weeks

Topic: General SEO

Summary: 
What tools do you all use so you have long term control over where your links are pointing over time?…


Conor Duggan: Is there a risk of google devaluing url shortened links?


3. Is Keyword research & development important ?

Members: Maria Dubretic, Ted Kubaitis, Jason Wright and Simon White

Topics: General SEO
Summary: 
Is Keyword Research and Development Still The Most Important Part of SEO?

Ted: When targeting no longer matters, marketing is dead.


4. Powerful links from no-follow sites

Members: John O’Hara and Lauren Proctor

Topic: General SEO

Summary: 
Links from powerful no-follow sites – do they move the needle?

Lauren: From a pure referral traffic perspective, I see these kinds of links have a diminishing effect…


5. Ranking correlation between Yahoo, Bing and Google  

Members: Rick Mann and Lauren Proctor

Tags: General SEO

Summary: 
Is there a correlation between when Yahoo and Bing start ranking a page and Google starts ranking it? …

Lauren: Jo Priest did a test on whether or not there is a strong SERP overlap for Bing and Google. You can check it out here: …


6. What to tweak?

Members: Brian Thomasson and Lee Witcher

Topic: General SEO

Summary: 
When there is an algorithm update or if things need to be tweaked, what do you recommend?

Lee: My suggestion is that you do not modify pages during an update. And if it’s a large update, I would wait at least a week after it ends because large updates tend to be followed by rollbacks, new updates, more rollbacks etc…


7. Getting referral traffic from bots?

Topic: General SEO

Members: Bryan Halverson

Summary:
 I am suddenly getting referral traffic from trafficbot4free.host. I am assuming this is to increase my bounce rate in an effort to drop my ranking. Is there any way to block this?


Kyle: You can block traffic from specific domains via htaccess…


8. Get good content for less $$$.

Topic: Premium | Pro Tips & Tricks

Tutorial: How to get good content for less $$$


 

That’s it for now. Hope you enjoyed the read. See you in the community over the weekend!

Kyle Roof

About the author

Kyle is best known for revealing the “secret” hidden in plain sight: Google’s algorithm is an algorithm. In other words, it all comes down to one thing - Math. Kyle demonstrated this by ranking number one in Google with a page consisting of gibberish text and only a handful of target keywords. Google actually punished him for exposing their algorithm by de-indexing 20 of his test sites and creating a rule in an attempt to de-value his efforts. Kyle has spent the past several years running more than 400 scientific SEO tests to better understand Google's algo. The combined results of those tests became the backbone of the popular SEO tool, PageOptimizer Pro, and they are implemented within his SEO agency on client sites. Kyle also shares his techniques in podcasts, at conferences around the world, and within the platform he co-founded, IMG, a sort of Netflix for SEOs with an active community aspect.

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