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I used to laugh at the idea of Hummingbird optimization.

In a recent poll, Moz asked nearly
300 marketers which Google updated affected their traffic the most. Penguin and Panda were first and second, followed by Hummingbird in a distant third.

Majestic SEO is going to Denver! Mel Carson, one of our US Ambassador’s, and Limsan Boulter, one of our Customer Advisors, will be representing Majestic SEO at the Digital Summit which opens from June 17th – 18th. Taking place at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, the show will be providing experts and insights on the latest […]

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Baffled by search engines and how they work? Not technical in orientation? Here's a layman's level explanation of the basics of search engines – including the critical concepts of relevance, popularity, segmentation, diversity, trust, and quality.

The past year has taught us that the SEO industry is more than simply "changing." Sure, there are a lot of different announcements that tell us what t...

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Less than a month after announcing a significant update to its algorithm targeting spammy queries such as payday loans, Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts announced yesterday at SMX Advanced that another update will launch this week.

With all the great tools already out there, why do you need another? The goal of using SpyFu's Backlink Builder tool isn't to "get a win on every page." It's to short-list sites that are worth looking at. And that's what this tool is great for.

Next week, we will be attending and sponsoring SMX Paris. Starting Monday 16th June, Dixon Jones will be speaking at 11.40 – 12.30 on a presentation titled “Which actions to remove a manual penalty, or how to avoid it?” Our French Ambassador, Francois Goube will also be attending to speak in either English or French; […]

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We’re delighted to share with you our new “Topics” tab in Site Explorer. From today subscribers can start to fully explore and drill into the individual Trust Flow topics that arrive at any website, domain, or URL. Topics tab The all-new Topics tab is a great way to check and categorise the incoming external backlinks to any site. For most users, […]

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Successfully selling SEO requires you to wrap your head around important "pain points" and goals of a prospect, and speak to that. Here are a few tips you can use to help cut through the techno-babble, relate to a prospect, and close some business.

Over the last year we have been gathering, expanding, and developing our OpenApps functionality, and now, in conjunction with this, we have set up and published our OpenApps Directory; a webpage of all those applications which currently use our Majestic API data. To check out the list and find out more about the applications – so […]

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